Clem on TF1: Does Lucy Lucas’ TV series still manage to surprise after 12 seasons?

With the recent stop of Alice Nevers, the research department (who will soon be credited with her last double episode) or the launch of the profile, Clem, who has been on the air since 2010, participates in Camping Paradis and Josephine, the Guardian of Angels. Several successful long-running series TF1s are still resisting.

Despite the shrinking audience, the family drama starring Lucy Lucas and Augustin Galiana continues to score well for young men and women who are responsible for purchases under 50, the main targets of advertisers.

That’s why Clem returns without much surprise this Monday, March 28, at 9:10 p.m., for the 12th season, which goes back more and more to the basics by perfectly combining comedy and more dramatic and tense stories.

And welcomes Helena Noguera, who appeared last week in The Replacement, and François-David Cardonell, a former Koh-Lanta adventurer who has since become an actress, in the skin of repetitive characters who turn these six new episodes upside down.

But after 12 seasons, does Clem Mayonnaise still get that much? What if the series, like the others before it, has reached the limits of what it can say without fatigue?

Return of the iconic character

Last year, after the darker seasons 9 and 10 were dedicated to heroin coma, the search for the truth to find out who was responsible for Karo’s death (Victoria Abril) and even environmental issues, Clem has already returned to his basic DNA. Gathered the entire Boise-Brimont tribe with Valentin (Thomas Chomel), who became a father at the age of 17 years. It beautifully reminds us of the beginning of the series and Clementine’s teenage pregnancy.

The series continues this logic in the 12th season, betting on both pure comedy series as well as drama, with the unexpected arrival of a guest and new threats to the clam and debt.

In Season 7, the last prominent original translator, Benoit Michelle, Jerome Tevene, the protagonist’s ex-husband, really returns to the series. He is now portrayed by François-David Cardonelli, who has already been seen on TF1 at the charity market and in La Traque, and returns to renew his father’s place with Emma (Elina Solomon).

And if a teenager who is experiencing a real crisis and cannot find a place in a new mixed family created by his mother and Matthew (Lup-Denis Elion) is happy to find his father, Clem quickly realizes that Jerome’s return to France is not good news at all. Then there is a fight between the two exes over Emma’s guardianship, which could blow up the family and have serious consequences.

Fans should win this red thread imbued with dramatic and powerful bets that ultimately give meaning to Emma’s character and restore the iconic character from the series. But we can not at the same time not give the impression that Jerome is really no longer Jerome.

Because apart from the fact that François-David Cardonelli is physically close to Julien (Matthew Spinos), he portrays a completely different version of the character, a dual game expert who no longer has much in common with what we had. Remained on his farm in Season 7.

In parallel with this main story, the TF1 series continues to delight us with the character of Marie-François (Carol Richter), who starts a new career, to put it mildly, is surprised to see her friendship with Natalie (Christiana Real) unfold. Moreover. Pleasure. But also with Salome (Josephine Berry), whose personal life and professional life will be problematic and disturbing to each other.

But above all Valentine is experiencing the most significant development. While Julie has to juggle the role of father, Clem’s son goes into adulthood and starts studying at a prestigious design school where competition is fierce.

And when his love affair with Iza (Lily Nambininso) resurfaces, Valle watches over Iris Khan, a charismatic and renowned drawing teacher who seems to see her potential. And who will approach him dangerously.

Although her mother is going through a very difficult period, Valentine is facing a new ordeal because of the iris, which is interpreted to perfection. Helena Noguera, Which joins the series for this twelfth season. And Thomas Chomel, currently at the news center, as well as with Parallèles on Disney +, goes on to claim that he is one of Clem’s main assets after the reboot took effect in 2019.

Will he become his own spin-off hero the day Clem stops? future will show. Twelve years after its airing, the TF1 series still has a lot to say, as these new episodes show.

And if this 12th season is less successful when he takes us to high school, with his little very caricatured plague, or when he is interested in Adrian and Amelie, whose story is sadly low this year, we still meet this big family with happiness. . Especially since Lucy Lucas continues to wear the clam brilliantly.