In the series created by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, it is now the health crisis that plunges Doctor Dayan and his new patients into turmoil, five years after the Paris attacks. Back on the couch from April 7 on Arte.
Five years after the Bataclan attacks, discussed in the background in the first season of En Thérapie, we find the psychoanalyst Philippe Dayan (Frédéric Pierrot) coming out of the first confinement in May 2020. Divorced, tested by the death of Adel Chibane (Reda Kateb), one of his former patients, and sued by the family of the latter who accuses him of not having unable to detect his distress, Dayan will consult Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a renowned analyst, as a new supervisor in order to prepare for his trial. But is he ready to face the ghosts that animate him?
Through this personal crisis, Dayan will have to put his therapeutic process to the test with four newcomers: Inès (Eye Haïdara), a lawyer in the middle of a midlife crisis; Robin (Aliocha Delmotte), an overweight teenager who is bullied at school; Lydia (Suzanne Lindon), a tormented student; and Alain (Jacques Weber), a business leader caught up in the media turmoil after the suicide of one of his employees.
For this new season of the event series adapted from the successful Israeli fiction BeTipul by Hagai Levi, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano have surrounded themselves with a whole new team of screenwriters supervised by Clémence-Madeleine Perdrillat (Nona and her daughters), and four new directors to their bow: Agnès Jaoui (Public Square), Arnaud Desplechin (Tromperie), Emmanuelle Bercot (In his lifetime) and Emmanuel Finkiel (La Douleur).
After the collective trauma represented by the attacks of November 13 in the first season, the author-director duo chose this time to study the psychological fallout of the pandemic, at the end of the first confinement in May 2020. This season will be an opportunity to find the brilliant Frédéric Pierrot in Doctor Dayan’s chair, but also certain characters from season 1, such as Pio Marmaï and Clémence Poésy, among a gallery of new characters as fascinating as they are moving.
Broadcast from April 7 every Thursday on Arte, the 35 episodes of season 2 will be available from March 31 in full on the site Arte.tv.