Superpapa on TF1: How much is a Christmas TV movie with Michael Yeun and Jennifer?

What is it about?

Michael Yoon plays Kristoff, a very (overly) protective father after the death of his husband four years ago. When Christoph is informed by the parents accompanying his son Victor (Gabriel Diefenthal) about to leave for Snow’s class, he jumps at the chance to join him, much to the chagrin of his 15-year-old son, but also to Marina. (Jennifer), SVT teacher adored by students.

Christophe is confident that he can keep an eye on his son during this school trip. Until the day he receives a strange gift: Kristoff can now hear the thoughts of adults, including his own son. Then he will get frustrated very soon…

who is he with

With Superpapa, TF1 audiences find two familiar faces from the titular fiction: Michael Yoon and Jennifer.

In 2018, the singer starred in Traqués, a TV movie with Joffrey Platel (already seen in Tomorrowland). The following year, he was one of the main leads in the mini-series Le temps est assassin alongside Matilda Seiner, Grigori Fitussi and Fred Testot.

For his part, Michael Yun has already played several secondary characters for TF1 fiction, such as Red Bracelets (2018), The Day My Heart Burned (2018), The French Affair (2021), Fugueza (2021) or Don. ‘t Abandon Me (2021). Thus, Superpapa will be his first major role in the title fiction.

Michael Yeun and Jennifer wouldn’t be the only celebrities sharing the poster. The cast of the romantic comedy includes Virgin Hawke, Ludovic, Juliette Mabilati (Tomorrow Belongs) and Mamadou Haidara (Lupin).

Finally, a note: two of the stars’ children got their first major roles thanks to Superpapa, namely Gabriel Diefenthal, son of Frederic Diefenthal and Gwendoline Hamon (Cassandre), and Mitty Hazanavicius, daughter of Serge Hazanavicius and Axel Lafont.

Is it worth checking out?

Accustomed to the quintessentially American Christmas TV movies on our screens, this rare 100% French-produced show, this Monday November 13 at 9.10pm on TF1, is sure to grab our attention.

Christmas in 2018, love at first sight in St. Petersburg in 2019…).

With Superpapa, one might at first believe that a TV movie is content to rely on a large cast and magnificent natural scenery as a setting. But if this obviously plays a big part in the appeal of the fiction, Superpapa manages to demonstrate that there is much more behind it, for example the mini-series Les Randonneuses (TF1), which was broadcast earlier this year.

Of course, the plot is a bit ordinary, some are a bit clumsy, and some characters are quite caricatured. At the same time, this is what makes Christmas TV movies so charming.

Superdad here can especially count on a solid performance from Michael Yun, who is insufferable as the suffocating dad in the first half of the TV movie before revealing himself in the second half.

A performance that, by the way, carries the TV movie without overshadowing the rest of the cast, who also have the opportunity to show what they can do.

Superdad sometimes manages to surprise us by ignoring all the codes and clichés of American Christmas TV movies. Not everything revolves around, for example, a classic love story between two white people.

Here, several forms of love are represented in the same fiction: between two romantic partners, between a parent and their child, between a man and a woman, between two women, between young people, between adults, or even between people of different colors. the skin

To recall, the lesbian couple created by Aicha (Luna Robin) and Ann-Charlotte (Colombe Ducroux) is shown as the most stable and loving couple, a rare representation in fiction and even more so in a Christmas TV movie. .

Despite all these intrigues under the guise of love, Superpapa does not fall into a flood of good feelings, but simply comforts. On the one hand, because there is a lot of humor woven throughout the fiction.

On the other hand, because the made-for-TV movie often shows budding loves, all the fragility, modesty and awkwardness that characterizes two people wandering around and learning to tame each other. Light, romantic stories that don’t try to make us believe in a prince charming or a life-long love story.

In a scene that speaks to parents, but which could also speak to others more generally, Lola (Miti Hazanavicius) sums up this moral well when she says: “Hang on: parents, whether it’s Rebeus, Renois, Kathos, whatever you want, they don’t understand anything, okay?

They are parents, they don’t see us as we are, they don’t know anything about us and they don’t know how we feel. So don’t you want to stop worrying for two seconds and enjoy your love story?” Yes, what are we waiting for?