Promise on TF1: Why is the end of the second season different from This Is Us?

Warning, the following paragraphs contain many spoilers. Before continuing to read this article I recommend you to be updated I promise and this we are in the series.

Promise Season 2, a series starring Camille Lou, Hugo Becker, Marilou Berry, Guillaume Labe and Narcissus’s father, is over. Is over Monday evening on TF1.

Again after the emotion-rich episodes, which are largely dedicated to Paul’s death, this is the second season of the French adaptation. closed Celebrating the long-awaited wedding of Maud and Tangui (Mark Riso) with great pomp at the Gallo family happy event.

The end of the season obliges us, promising to leave us on a rock associated with Paul’s mysterious past. Something that spoils our imagination and redistributes cards for the rest of the adventures of the Gallo clan.

Let ‘s go back for a few seconds. Before the party is over, Michael meets Estelle (Sarah MartinsCousin of Agnes (Leon Simaga). Interested in his Berber ring, a young woman asks to see him more closely and then finds an inscription inside it meaning “You are my sun”.

The series then moves on to the flashback in which Paul receives a letter. And if the latter first laughs at his wife and tells her that it’s still his girlfriend’s message, the Gallo family patriarch quickly loses a smile while reading. I will not forget you There is nothing like it for the emergence of a whole host of questions that will inevitably reveal the episodes after the series if you order the third season.

In general, we promise that this is what we are committed to adapting to. After all, the French TV series sometimes gets some welcome freedom to choose from the original, and that’s exactly the case for this end of the season.

It is true that the two shows devoting their last episode to the marriage of the family’s only daughter, but that we are faithful to will probably notice a noticeable difference. Indeed, I promise, there is no flash forward.

This is well known to us through the narratives of several decades of Pearson’s lives, the oscillations between the twists and turns of the present moment. However, the second season was marked by the introduction of the very first flash forwards of the series, a process that allowed us to immerse ourselves in the future of Rebecca (Mandy Moore), Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chris Metz) and Randall. (Sterling K. Brown).

We can find Kevin flying to Vietnam to explore his father’s past with Zoe (Melanie Libourd) and Betty cousin (Susan Kelechi Watson). For their part, Kate and Toby (Chris Sullivan) experienced a particularly difficult depressive episode just months after their marriage. Finally, Randall knew about the most important leap in the future. With gray hair, he was joining his now-adult daughter, Tess, when he left work to meet a woman of unknown identity.

If flashbacks here allow us to understand how the past affects the present, flashwards in turn show how our present becomes the past of the near future. But this scenario technique is primarily aimed at offering infinite possibilities for telling the life story of a trio. Ideal for multiplying rocks and for the viewer to imagine what could have happened up there.

I promise the authors made another choice, ending the season with a flashback. A bias that has nothing to do with the recent spin of this season, which is just as effective.

But why not end the 2nd season I promise also with a flash forward like this we are?

” We thought the last scene was so powerful. Cliffhanger with a postcard that tells us that there is still a big secret around Paul and that we will find out something about him after his death. We thought it would be stronger to finish with that, with Hugo Becker, who is a truly amazing actor and who carries the whole past. In terms of being he is not the main actor, but for me he is a character who is even the soul of the TV series Dead. Alin Panel, the producer of the TV series, explained to our microphone.

Once again, French authors show their ability to sometimes rework the original story in order to better serve the story the way they want to bring it to us.