a gripping thriller about the uberized society

In “Enjoy”, a French mini-series adapted from a novel, broadcast tomorrow Monday November 25 on France 2, Benoît Marchisio shows in the form of a nervous thriller the behind the scenes of an uberized society.

Abel is a brilliant but insecure student. To make ends meet, he works as a bicycle delivery boy for Enjoy. Showing behind the scenes of an uberized society is the strong point of this new series, Enjoyshot as a nervous thriller. Benoît Marchisio first wrote a book, and he had already documented it before making a series.

“What is their relationship with the application. Because in fact, their only 'boss' is their phone. Everything passes through the phone, the rules, the remuneration, these stories of challenges which allow them to increase their income if they manage to make a certain number of deliveries in a minimum of time. I had the chance to interview delivery people, lawyers who defend them. Even the notifications that we see in the series are. inspired by real notifications that users receive delivery people: challenges in particular If you deliver 10 times between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., we give you 5. euros more. That's a real notification.”

In EnjoyBenoît Marchisio intersects the destinies of the delivery man, a young idealistic lawyer and a trainee journalist who lands in a sensational channel. Here again, the author has documented himself. “We had discussions with a few journalists who work in 24-hour news channels, who confirmed to us, for example, that there are journalists who search social networks to find topics. That’s something which was confirmed to us, and the slightly 'we're shaking up the summary at the last minute' side, because we have something that's buzzing, we were told that it was real.”

Enjoy looks like a thriller. But it is also above all the hypermodern cross-portrait of young adults, explains Benoît Marchisio. “We said to ourselves that we wanted to make a series about young adults who enter the world of work, and about the compromises and sometimes the compromises that they are forced to make in order to fit into this world. So it does indeed come with disillusionment, disappointments. We sometimes have to put aside some of our ideals to fit into a mold. They are all a little constrained by this world and afterward, there is always room to find ourselves. rebel.”

Add excellent actors, including Jean Désiré Augnet in the role of the delivery man, who received a prize at the fiction festival in La Rochelle, and Bruno Salomone who plays a character who is a cross between a Pascal Praud and a Cyril Hanouna . And you get a series that is both gripping and exciting.

SIX episodes available for free on France TV, and broadcast tomorrow evening, Monday November 25, in the second part of the evening on France 2.