Louise MALEK (Jo Benezra) Khalil BEN GHARBIA (Bilal Cherif) -
Thibault GRABHERR-FTV
The spectators of season 7 of
Skam France
are mixed as to the choice of the script for a universe where the Covid19 is barely present but agree on a new successful season.
Fans continue to identify with the characters in Season 7, sometimes even more than before.
The humor and touches of lightness of the scenario, which deals with Tiffany Prigent's denial of fat, conquer the public.
At the heart of
Skam's
DNA
are two things: its hyperrealism and its fictitious real-time broadcast.
It is the strength and originality of this program which, by holding out a mirror to its young viewers, resembles a series of learning.
For this seventh season, a duo of women at the head of the production team, Déborah Hassoun (new director of the collection) and Shirley Monsarrat (new director), made the bet to offer a slightly different universe, mixing gravity and humor, in a world that would not have been hit hard by the Covid19 crisis.
After four weeks of airing, we asked
Skam
fans
what they thought of these biases.
"A breath of fresh air"
During the broadcast of season 6 last spring, during confinement, you had told
20 Minutes
that
Skam
allow you to escape, to "forget a morbid daily life".
It seems that this is still the case for spectators who "are fed up with hearing about it [Covid19]" (Amélie, 22 years old), who are tired "of the information [which] only speaks of a pandemic and [ the] depress ”(Cindy, 25).
Having reached the saturation point of the health crisis, worn out,
Skam
spectators
speak of season 7 as a space-time that belongs to them, gives them life.
Océane says that “a student, [she is] most often at [her] home and completely isolated.
Season 7 of
Skam
France is [his] outlet and [him] helps keep morale high ”.
She explains that “[she lives] vicariously what the characters can experience.
It is true that sometimes that makes [her] nostalgic and a little sad, but it also allows us to keep hope ”.
This feeling of escape, of participating in the history of the characters, Valentin also underlines.
Far from creating frustration, the universe of
Skam
7 calms and gives hope: it "allows us to think of a better world without being utopian" (Anthony 27 years old),
Skam
"gives us courage [ …] Also reminds us that we are going to find our world again, it's only a matter of time ”(Margot, 20).
But has
Skam
France lost its hyperrealistic dimension?
Not all spectators agree on this.
Some deplore this bias which takes them too far from reality.
This is also the only downside for Floriane (32) who indeed finds it a shame to have left aside the pandemic while the Belgian version of
Skam
, for example, has integrated it, thus remaining the most realistic and close to spectators possible.
"We lose the phenomenon of series in real time" explains Floriane.
Conversely, for Anthony (27), "
Skam
is not more realistic before or now, it is real time that makes this series come true".
Valentin also believes that the issue of Covid19 "does not completely change the concept of the series which is in real time, each screening comes out at one hour in real life".
For Cindy (25) also the series “remains realistic, even without Covid”.
The choice made by the production team of
Skam
France therefore does not seem to pose a problem to the fans although their opinions differ.
However, whatever their opinion, no one is sulking the pleasure of watching each new clip ...
“La Mif is a group of friends I would like to be with” (Anthony, 27)
Like Floriane, the spectators were several to be disappointed by season 6, for various reasons, and to have hesitated to resume with the Mif for season 7. However, the new heroes of season 7 are unanimous, with their sense of humor and offbeat slack, some of which, however, can sometimes seem “too borderline” (Tiffany, 18).
"Just a bunch of young people who live their lives, it cheers me up" explains Anna (32).
Indeed, beyond offering a recreational and entertainment space, season 7 of
Skam
is perhaps even closer to the spectators in the way that the characters have to face their daily life as Lucie explains to us ( 21 years old).
“There are a lot of people who prefer to laugh at their past or their chaotic life, so why not?
We don't always have to make everything dramatic, ”adds Cindy (25) in her testimony.
For her, "we find the gentle spirit of
Skam
" that fans sometimes had the feeling of having mislaid along the way.
However, Déborah Hassoun and Shirley Monsarrat maintain the balance between the seriousness of the main subject of the season, Tiffany's denial of pregnancy, and the lighter impetus they gave to the screenplay.
The humor, very present, is however skilfully distilled as explained by Océane (23 years old): “I really appreciate the touches of humor, it makes it easier to tackle the theme of denial of pregnancy, j 'like this balance very much ”.
The young woman also testifies to the success of season 7 and the success of the characters with whom the spectators continue to identify, from which they are even inspired, also: "The self-deprecation and resilience shown by the heroes of Mif is inspiring, humor is truly the best weapon ”.
So, yes, more than ever
Skam lifts
the spirits of the spectators, helps them to hold on.
The optimistic choice “of the world after” made by the team of
Skam
France season 7 continues to please and even revives its softest and lightest dimensions, like a soothing, inspiring balm, a breath of freedom.
Fictitious, but almost real.
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