While the start of the school year is scheduled for September 4 in France, the teenagers of “Un Si Grand Soleil”, including Tom and Achille, find the benches of high school in the episode broadcast this Thursday, August 24. Why this discrepancy with reality?
The time of return has strangely already struck for the teenagers of Un Si Grand Soleil.
While the plot on the fire at the property site has just come to an end and the couples Akim-Noémie and Margot-Ludo have ended with loss and a crash, the soap opera of France 2 is about to switch to a new great narrative arc centered on the traffic in Montpellier of Buddha blue, a drug which will gradually spread within the school.
For the purposes of this plot, Kira (Coline Ramos-Pinto), Thaïs (Lila Guiraud), Louis (Sylvain Boccara), but also Tom (Matéo Paitel) and Achille (Matthieu Rodriguez), who are entering Second and will be the first concerned by this drug trafficking, therefore return to school in the episode broadcast this Thursday, August 24 on France 2.
A return to school a little ahead of the calendar in force in metropolitan France since the start of the school year will actually take place on Monday, September 4.
So, why this “error” and this difference of about ten days compared to reality? Contacted by us, France 2 explained to us that the calendar of Un Si Grand Soleil is not modeled on daily life, unlike Tomorrow belongs to us and Here everything begins. Only Christmas and New Year’s Day are generally mentioned in the plots of the soap opera led by Mélanie Maudran and Moïse Santamaria.
If we could assume that the prime-time broadcast of six episodes of Un Si Grand Soleil on July 5 could have caused an advance in the series’ broadcast schedule, possibly with the aim of anticipating possible deprogramming to come due to current events (as is unfortunately often the case for the soap opera of La Deux), this is not the case.
Fans of Un Si Grand Soleil must therefore accept that the heroes of their favorite soap opera live in a fictional parallel universe that resembles reality and the daily life of all French people, with a few exceptions. And in which the summer holidays end a little earlier for high school students in Montpellier.