After a flop on France 2, this French comedy is a hit on Netflix

After having flopped on France 2 last year, this French romantic comedy, worn by Maud Baecker, is getting a second life on Netflix.

In addition to the sitcom That ’90s Show which flop in France, netflix added another series to its already busy catalog. A year after its broadcast on France 2, the series The (almost) perfect love landed on Thursday, January 19, 2023 on the streaming platform. Created by Pascale Pouzadoux, the fiction features Julie, a single woman who has just been dumped by Hervé, her longtime companion. Following this painful breakup, she decides to take on a roommate to pay her rent. On the advice of her two best friends, Ava and Manon, she decides to live with a gay man. That’s when Stéphane, a young unemployed rugby player, shows up… but he’s not gay and claims the opposite to get a roommate. At the same time, Julie meets Max, a cardiac surgeon, with whom she immediately falls in love. If the series in six episodes had not convinced the viewers of France 2 during its first broadcast, now it is a hit on Netflix.

The (almost) perfect love makes a surprise hit on Netflix

In the spring of 2021, actress Maud Baecker temporarily left the soap opera tomorrow belongs to us to shoot the six episodes of the romantic comedy The (almost) perfect love. For its prime-time launch, the first two episodes respectively gathered 2.87 and 2.40 million viewers. After a decent start, audiences for subsequent episodes declined sharply, down to 1 million viewers. On average, the six episodes only gathered 2.14 million viewers. A fairly catastrophic audience record for the public channel. Whether The (almost) perfect love did not meet its audience a year ago, the French comedy is now having some success on Netflix and is in 7th place among the most watched series of the moment.

This other French series that is a hit on Netflix

The (almost) perfect love is not the only French series to be a hit on Netflix at the moment. In just a few days, the comedy In place has already passed the new season of Ginny & Georgia, which has topped the Top 10 since its release on January 5. It must be said that the actor and director Jean-Pascal Zadi hit hard with this satirical comedy featuring him in the shoes of Stéphane Blé, animator in a Maison des Jeunes in Bobigny. After becoming a social media star following an altercation with the mayor of Bobigny and left-wing presidential candidate, Stéphane is approached by a political adviser who convinces him to become the first black man to run for president. in France. An idea that is not to the taste of his rival.

Article written in collaboration with 6Médias