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Stéphane Blé at the Elysée

More than a year and a half after the series went online on Netflix Alrightcreated by Jean-Pascal Zadi and François Uzan, its second season is available on the streaming platform August 29th. We find Stéphane Blé there, a city leader who has become the hope of the French people tired of a worn-out and corrupt political class, and the surprise winner of the presidential elections. Having thus become a tenant of the Elysée, it is with his team composed of William (Éric Judor), Yasmine (Souad Arsane), Mo (Jean-Claude Muaka) that he will have to implement his program, navigating the troubled waters of politics and trying to save his marriage to Marion (Fadily Camara).

An always attractive casting

Jean-Pascal Zadi, who has become a leader of comedy on the screen, has lost none of his humor and his slightly bizarre charisma, with his lanky silhouette and his projections as funny as they are borderline. Revelation of the first season, Jean-Claude Muaka, Mo, his cousin in charge of his security and systematically next to his pumps, continues the hilarious sequences. Of course Érci Judor, the “boss” of the French comedy series after his masterpiece Plane treehe is perfect: he seems to be having fun and constantly holding back from bursting out laughing, and he is devilishly contagious. In his role as a cabinet chief with no other principle than that he will ensure “he has a driver,” he perfectly embodies the profile of a politician ready to lie down without any modesty in front of the highest bidder.

On the casting side, then, nothing to complain about, as Marina Foïs, Pierre-Emmanuel Barré and Benoît Poelvoorde also develop their characters with commitment. We will also note the addition of Vimala Pons for the character of Alice, the novice head of security at the Elysée, who is rather poor in her work. Which marries beautifully with Mo, who is largely incompetent himself. We would also have liked to see more actress in this character, whose comic potential has not been fully exploited. Without forgetting the fleeting presence of Alain Chabat, very convincing in his role as the outgoing president and in whom we recognize, in addition to Nicolas Sarkozy, Emmanuel Macron and François Hollande.

A very current vision of politics

Calendar coincidence, what this seasonAlright said about politics resonates deeply with the real political sequence opened by Emmanuel Macron with the dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024. It is therefore about unnatural agreements between the different leaders of the opposition, complex nomination of a prime minister, dismissal of the President of the Republic, the manipulation of public opinion… Not to mention a welcome nod to the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters in January 2021.

On this point, as already happened in the first season, Alright manages to play with politics making it interesting, accessible, important. Even if the whole thing is treated with absurd and unbridled humor, the freshness of the discourse and the sincere desire to interest the public is one of the great qualities of these new episodes. As he has done elsewhere Simply blackJean-Pascal Zadi manages to conclude funny situations that have become dramatic with ideas and statements that have a very serious background.

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Lengths and air holes

But in these 6 new episodes we cannot help but notice a rhythm that breaks, that paradoxically drags on while ideas sprout in abundance. It seems that it is above all to certain characters that we become attached, rather than to specific situations or a particular theme. For example, the interesting idea of ​​developing an adulterous story between Marion and her bodyguard clashes with a casual editing and an unjustified stretching into several episodes. Absent from the first episodes, the return of the Machiavellian Éric Andréi (Benoît Poelvoorde) attracts all the spotlight and deprives the other subplots ofAlright of coherent development.

Surprisingly, we can therefore get bored at certain moments, immediately feeling that this or that situation will not have a sequel and it serves above all to fill the gaps of a main narrative that takes up too much time. But rest assured, we are having much more fun than bored in this new season of En Placethanks to the irresistible humor of its main cast and the originality and modernity of its views on French society.

Source: Cine Serie

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