Toulouse-Lautrec high school: Internet users have been won over by the new TF1 series

TF1 launched, this Monday, January 9, its new event series, Toulouse-Lautrec high school. This fiction in six episodes tells the daily life of the only school in France dedicated to students with disabilities, also welcoming able-bodied teenagers. We thus follow the journey of Victoire, 17, a student who arrives at this unique high school, where she joins her brother Théo, who has been enrolled for a year because he has epileptic seizures. During her first day, the student discovers with surprise that she will have to accompany one of her disabled classmates on a daily basis, thus becoming her referent.

Nessa Merad bursts the screen

This award-winning series at the La Rochelle festival notably features Ness Merad, a young 19-year-old actress who literally bursts onto the screen, in the role of Marie-Antoinette, the young handicapped woman whom Victoire (China Thybaud, Endless Night) will have to accompany. She also went through the Toulouse-Lautrec high school. “There will be a before and after Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec for me“, she confided. “It gave new meaning to my life. I am much less shy. It motivates me to take on new projects, like traveling and becoming a more active influencer. I would like to go and live in Korea for several months. I also look forward to discovering the reactions of the spectators. The prize for the best series, received at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival in September 2022, is already a great encouragement“, she confided. In this series, we also find a few figures known to viewers: Stéphane de Groodt, who plays the school principal, Valérie Karsenti (Scenes of households) in the role of his assistant, and Rayane Bensetti, who plays a supervisor. But also Max Baissette de Malglaive, appeared in the cinema in the films Versailles by Pierre Schoeller, in 2008, then The Immortal (2009), Starting point by Lionel Steketee and lately Mr. I know everything by Arnaud Ducret.

Internet users hope that the series will be a hit

Internet users were in any case won over by these first episodes of the TF1 series and were full of praise for Toulouse-Lautrec high school. They were particularly sensitive to the risks taken by the channel by accurately addressing a subject as delicate as disability. “Moving, tender, original”, enthused a twittos. Another found the subject “cannon“. “There are more and more series, films, programs, all audiences, on the inclusion of disability and difference”, she congratulated herself. Some are already betting on a ratings success for the series, which will nevertheless have to resist Vortex on TF1, which was a hit last week.