Review by redsquirrel-772-362792

I loved this series when it was shown in 2002. Now I'm a college student, I realize how realistic it was about the student life in France. If you had already seen a french campus, you know that most of the "CROUS" dorms are pretty old and ugly (the new ones are impersonal and "cages à lapins"). Besides the set, the dialogues are great because they are not a caricature of young people conversation. Of course, the characters are a little bit "clichés" : Elodie is the feminist, Julie is the naive spoiled girl and Fatia is the studious one. Martial is the greasy hair artist who has many girlfriends whereas Bertrand is neat and nerdy because he is a Maths student... The most interested character is Pierre, the disabled guy in a wheel-chair who does not support the compassion of others for his condition and does everything to be abhorred. And finally, Pierre's brother, Thomas, who feels guilty for everything he can do and not his brother.

The good point with "Age sensible" is that it does not try to imitate the American series like other french crappy series I know. For example, we have an extremely bad french version of CSI, it is so ridiculous that it could be a parody ! I really like American and English TV series but we are not able to made such shows in France, so we must simply make what we are good at : realistic series, historical series... If you are interested in seeing french TV series some are really good : ("Age sensible"), "Engrenages", "Clara Sheller", "Petits meurtres en famille", "Vénus et Apollon"

In fact, "Age sensible" was broad-casted at 5 pm which is the perfect hour for children in primary school but not for a grown-up audience. That could explains why the ratings weren't so good in site of the good reviews. Age sensible has only one season but it gathers 50 episodes (only 28 were shown in 2002 but the channels "TV5" and now "France 4" have broad-casted the other episodes lately).