The two teenagers in search of freedom from the series “Lou et Sophie” are not finished yet, let us show us all the colors in the second season, whose story begins three weeks later in Gaspésie, where the girls are hanging out in a cottage.
But now that the resort is no longer available and money is getting tighter, the two friends must return home. Of course, their return doesn’t go as planned, so they decide to sleep in their vehicle, good old Dolores!
In order to make some quick money and have a better start, Sophie (Zeneb Blanchet), who regrets dropping out of drama school, gets a job at the supermarket where Lou (Jade Charbonneau) worked until the two girls closed the store robbed to fund the purchase of their big Cadillac. Still just as stupid and jaded, Lou takes a job at his mother Caroline’s (Sophie Cadieux) store because she has a good smell: she’ll be stealing clothes to fund her sabbatical through online resale.
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“Lou et Sophie” is a quality series. The leading actresses are convincing, but one wonders what example one wants to set for the target audience by showing them committing armed robberies and stealing clothes to pay for their car journeys. It’s not like the girls come from incredibly difficult families that they have to move out of immediately. In the 10 new episodes, Lou and Sophie remain deeply bored with their suburban life, which is understandable for two 17-year-old girls going through a difficult transition into adulthood. But securing freedom by flying, really?
We find, of course, their friends Arnaud (Tom-Eliot Girard) and Jules (Étienne Galloy), as well as Lou and Sophie’s fathers, Philippe (Hubert Proulx) and David (Martin-David Peters). Caroline still tries to take steps towards Lou, also awkwardly, but her daughter makes her drool and remains closed to dialogue, even if she sometimes smiles or strings together a few endearing words.
Written by Yannick Éthier, the series does useful work when it comes to sexuality—Lou doesn’t like sex, while Sophie enjoys it a lot—when dialogue between teenagers and parents is open, even uncomfortably so, and girls have different states of consciousness.
Directors Sandra Coppola (“L’Académie”) and Félix Tétreault (“Chouchou”) return to direct with actors such as Lévi Doré, Anick Lemay, Robin L’Houmeau, Thérèse Morange and Rodley Pitt, while Marguerite Bouchard, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne and Rémi-Pierre Paquin joins the cast.
- Produced by Pass Go, Season 2 of “Lou et Sophie” comes to ICI TOU.TV EXTRA from Wednesday 25 January.