Between an awkward and misguided principal, an “old school” mistress, teachers with personal methods, and parents of students who are willing to do anything to get noticed, Paul Pedro’s school is a giant playground. And the children in all this? They enjoy taking on the show…
Monday to Friday at 8.30pm on the M6 from 4th July
Created by Beatrice Furnera and Gael Leforestier from the Dutch format Lice Mother, launched in 2018 on the NPO3 channel, Comme des gosses features a host of more or less famous faces to the audience – be they from TV, film or the stage. Colorful parent and teacher interpretation of this new series.
Alongside Paul Pédrault’s elementary school teacher, who serves in various episodes, Julien Pestel, an actor who passed the Palma show and was seen in La Folle histoire de Max et Léon and Les Vedettes, lends. Its features directed by Jean-Yves Bresson, and comedians Antonia de Renninger, a recurring figure on Fridays, are all allowed on TF1, Doully, Philippine Delaire or Laurence Joseph complete the picture in the role of school teachers and assistants. of the institution.
Opposite the M6, viewers will find, among others, François-David Cardonel, recently seen in season 12 of Clem, Stéphane Creyancourt (Les Chamois), Noémie Chicheportiche (La Colle), Stéphane Debac (Les Bracelets rouges) and comedian Kevin secret. Children are ready to do anything in the shoes of parents of students. Even if it means making teachers’ lives hell.
Camera Café, Kaamelott and Household Stages proved it: short comedy programs have been quite (very) successful on the M6 for the last twenty years. Ten years after En Famille aired – which will be slightly delayed this summer – the channel is betting on a new short fiction run tonight. Hoping that it will also set the audience and make it a new lasting success.
Through 300 episodes of 3.5 minutes, which will be offered from Monday to Friday for the next four weeks, Comme des gosses, produced by Hervé Bellech (Hero Corp, Or de lui) for Calt Story, immerses us in our daily lives. An elementary school that emphasizes the forced and chaotic cohabitation between the parents of the students, who are more or less involved in the upbringing of their children, and the members of the educational team, all benevolent sociopaths.
The ten sketches that we managed to see immediately threw us into the atmosphere of this giant “playground”, where the most unruly children are not at all. If the valves aren’t flying at the minute, and if the humor is perhaps less impressive than in Le Kervelec’s En Famille, Comme des gosses has a great strength: its very well-drawn characters, who are out of the ordinary, have an inevitability. Remind us of teachers or parents we all know.
Whether it’s Lucy (Antonia de Rendinger), a CP mistress with slightly old fashioned methods, Jack (Dooley), her totally punk and outrageous CE1 colleague, Monsieur Bresson (Julien Pestel), a clumsy director and genuinely disliked by everyone, or the school duo. Assistant Fatou-Zoe, who shines, the characters of Comme des gosses quickly turn out to be charming and owe much to the talent of their performers.
As is often the case with this kind of fiction, the sketches are decidedly uneven, but the whole still manages to give a smile in all circumstances. Even if it makes us laugh out loud when Jack plays Captain Marlowe and starts “How are you, my little ass?” to his young students. Or when parents take their kids’ seats at a school party and compete in a sack race.
Despite a few minor flaws and parents who are sometimes less outstanding than the teachers in this school where you will never get bored, Comme des gosses stands out as a pleasant surprise. Who manages to discuss important and more pressing social issues with humor – such as homo-parenting or casual racism with a couple Yoan and Arthur, parents of a little girl of Vietnamese origin.
The new M6 series is much more successful than the very average Pepi that ran on TF1 from 2013 to 2015, so it acts like a little bubble of novelty at the start of the summer. And we can only hope that it will find its audience, but accustomed to the antics of En Famille parents, children and grandchildren at this time of year. Because the writers already have ideas for a possible season 2.
Source: allocine
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