Tom and Lola, the France 3 series, attempts to break the codes of the duo of cops who end up being drawn into a game of seduction or a complex romantic relationship. In any case at the start…
Tom and Lola, a boy, a girl, in short, two cops who will try to solve incredible cases, hand in hand… At first glance, the France 3 series, co-produced with Mediawan, Be-FILMS and RTBF , and scheduled for Tuesday evenings from October 1, 2024, does not really break the codes of the French detective series with romantic overtones, featuring a duo of whom we wonder from the first minutes if they will end up as a couple. Except that Tom and Lola starts from a slightly different principle.
The pitch of the series : Tom, who has just been dumped by his wife and has a distant relationship with his daughter Ludivine, is looking for new accommodation and moves in temporarily with Lola, his best friend, also separated and mother of two teenagers. And as if that wasn’t enough, Lola, who happens to be a captain at the PJ, one day sees the same Tom, a Narcotics officer, join her team. Like their shared accommodation, their collaboration will obviously prove to be longer than expected and the duo will quickly find themselves living and working together for an indefinite period.
Positive review and successful casting
You will have understood: Tom and Lola tries, at the start in any case, to avoid the eternal game of seduction or the cliché of the complex love story in the relationship between the two cops. Rather starting on the ground of a solid friendship, he will stage a duo who will transpose their little children’s games and competition onto crime scenes (starting with the famous “Cap ou pas cap” and “Le first who…”). As always, the rest of the team will go from surprise to surprise in front of the escapades of the two friends, roommates and colleagues, who nevertheless manage to solve the cases by the kilo.
From a critical perspectiveTom and Lola ultimately turns out to be a rather successful police comedy, or at least attractive, as long as you like the light scenarios and the good humor in the barracks, without forgetting the pretty settings (it was filmed in the Var ). The opinions, from Télé 7 Jours to Télé Loisirs, are rather positive. Even the demanding Télérama salutes the effort of the series which “stands out […] through his dialogues, his sense of rhythm […] and by the excellent performance” of the main actors, “each as funny and twirling as the other”.
At the casting precisely, Dounia Coesens, the famous Johanna of More beautiful lifeplays Lola Briand, when Pierre-Yves Bon, seen in Research sectionplays Tom Serino. Around them, Élodie Varlet (More beautiful lifeagain) plays Gaëlle the lawyer, Evelyne El Garby Klaï (Here it all begins) plays a very sympathetic commissioner, Grégoire Paturel (Rousseau’s fault) a young cop who is cutting his teeth and Yassine Hitch a lieutenant who is a bit of a homebody.