I PROMISE YOU SEASON 2. The faithful of “I promise you” will soon discover the circumstances surrounding the death of Paul during this season 2. But in which episode?
[Mis à jour le 31 janvier 2022 à 20h45] Season 2 of I promise you offers new emotional moments for viewers. It is indeed in the next episodes of this season that the faithful of the TF1 series, adapted from This is us, discover the exact circumstances of Paul Gallo’s death. The mystery of the series, which has kept fans in suspense since the very first episode, will finally be solved, with a few small variations compared to the American version. However, it will be necessary to wait for episode 6 and the following for the whole truth to come to light.
While dissecting the mourning and trauma of the Gallo family following this tragic event, season 2 of I promise you will not forget to tell the present life of the protagonists. While Maud embarks on singing and Michaël juggles between his acting career and his romantic disappointments with his ex-wife, Mathis sets himself a new challenge: to become the adoptive father of a teenager with a difficult past. This season 2 has twelve episodes. I promise you is to be discovered every Monday evening until March 7, 2022 on TF1.
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Synopsis – Florence and Paul are about to give birth to their triplets. Michaël, a footballer, wonders about his professional future while Maud, who suffers because of her weight, is also unhappy in love. Finally, Mathis, adopted when he was a child, finds traces of his biological father. Viewers follow the fate of its characters, which are intertwined. I promise you is the French adaptation of the American series This is us.
I promise you is a choral series featuring several characters facing different life and societal issues. In the leading quintet, we find Hugo Becker in the role of Paul, actor crossed in the Baron Noir and Chefs series, opposite Camille Lou (Le Bazar de la Charité) who plays his wife Florence. Guillaume Labe, actor seen in Plan coeur on Netflix, plays Michaël, while Maud is played by Marilou Berry (Vilaine, Joséphine…). Finally, Narcisse Mame lends his features to Mathis, an adopted child in search of his origins. We could see the actor before in Welcome to Marly-Gomont. Below, find the complete cast of the series I promise you :
- Hugo Becker: Paul
- Camille LouFlorence
- Guillaume Labe: Michael
- Marilou Berry : Maud
- Narcissus Mame: Mathis
- Nathalie Roussel: Florence, elderly
- Léonie Simaga as Agnes
- Marc Riso: Tanguy
- Bass Dhem: Amidou
- Hugo Questel: Michael, 10 years old
- Axel Naroditzky: Michael, 16 years old
- Midie Dreyfus: Maud, 10 years old
- Mathilde Abd-El-Kader: Maud, 16 years old
- Mahamadou Yaffa: Mathis, 10 years old
- Dembo Camilo: Mathis, 16 years old
- Léo Daudin: Amidou, young
- Phillip Schurer: Phillip
- Patrick Chesnais: Dr. Michelin
- Natacha Lindinger as Olivia
- Lionel Astier: José, elderly
- Bruno Sanches: José, young
- Marie-Julie Baup as Maëlle
- Sandy Afiuni (from season 2): Pink
- Charlie Bruneau (from season 2): Julie
- Noémie Zeitoun (from season 2): Melody
Fans of American series will notice this as soon as they read the synopsis: I promise you is a French adaptation of the hit series This is us. Created in 2016, this soap opera is a critical and popular success. Each year, the series This is us is nominated during the ceremonies which reward the best of television across the Atlantic. She was notably cited for the award for best drama series at the 2016 Golden Globes and actor Sterling K. Brown, who plays Randall, the character from which Mathis is inspired in French, received the Emmy Award and the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama series, while the other actors in the series have been nominated several times. This is us is currently airing in the United States, featuring six seasons. In France, it is Canal++ which offers unreleased This is us in streaming. The series is also broadcast on 6ter and M6.
Yes I promise you follows several storylines similar to the plot of This is us, there are still some differences between the American series and its French sister. The American plot takes place in Pittsburgh, while the French remake takes place in La Rochelle, making Paul a craftsman specializing in boats. Unlike the original, two actresses play Florence at two different ages in her life in I promise you : Camille Lou in the 1980s and Nathalie Roussel today. In the American version, Florence/Rebecca is played by the same actress, Mandy Moore, who is made up to look aged.
Another difference between I promise you and This is us : Michaël is a footballer in the French version. In This is us, its counterpart, Kevin, is a sitcom actor who reconverted to Broadway: the anchorage was too American to work in the French version. Finally, I promise you focused on the story of Mathis’ origins, in particular addressing the history of decolonization and immigration, which is not done in the American version. According to the critics, these differences and this French historical and cultural anchoring are all the salt of this adaptation, which relies on a totally hexagonal soundtrack, from Johnny Hallyday to Alain Souchon.
I promise you is a series broadcast on TF1 since February 1, 2021. From this date, the channel broadcasts two episodes every Monday evening, until March 8, 2021, the end of the first season. The second season has been available on TF1 since January 31, 2022. If you missed an episode, don’t panic: they are available the day after their replay broadcast on the MyTF1 site.
If you missed season 1 of I promise you, know that it is not too late to see it again in streaming. These are available on the Salto and Canal+ subscription platforms. Season 2 is also being released gradually on these two platforms. On his side, This is us can be discovered for the curious on the streaming platforms Primevideo (5 seasons), Canal+ (season 6 in US+24) or 6play (season 5), as well as for purchase on Canal VOD, Apple TV, Google Play or Orange.
I promise you currently contains two seasons, the first broadcast in 2021, the second in 2022. We do not yet know if the French adaptation of This is us will be entitled to a third season or not: if the matter exists (the original American series is currently airing its sixth and final round of episodes), it will be the audiences for season 2 that will determine the fate of I promise you on TF1. For the moment, nothing has been formalized as to a potential sequel.
Before its launch on TF1 in 2021 (the series was already available in full on the streaming platform somersault), I promise you garnered mostly positive reviews. However, the announcement of this French remake of This is us made fans cringe. For Allocinated : TF1 “holds in its hands a potential future success with I promise you which stands out, with Les Bracelets rouges, as one of the most successful transpositions proposed by the front page in recent years.” The media specializing in film and television news welcomes an adaptation “very faithful to the series original”, but which stands out by providing a French historical and cultural context. “If it is perhaps a little less moving, this very well-written adaptation, which is based on chiseled dialogues, is therefore much funnier, and it is again a very good point.” The Obs admits it, “it is wrong to oppose […] the scenario has the intelligence to anchor itself resolutely in its territory by summoning our common memory”. Same observation on the side of the Figaro , who believes “after the misses of the genre (like Make kids), it’s the spicy comedy that the PAF was waiting for.