The challenge was sizeable.
After the phenomenal success of the first season of "Validé", we had to live up to the expectations.
From the start, this Canal + creation managed to avoid clichés by describing and telling the story from the inside the world of French rap.
For these nine new episodes, the director Franck Gastambide immediately wanted to mark the spirits by killing, at the end of season 1, his main hero, Apash played by the rapper Hatik, and thus breaking the trio he formed with his two endearing friends William and Brahim, played by Saïdou Camara and Brahim Bouhlel.
In this season 2, toured with more resources between Paris and Marseille, the two bastions of French hip-hop, it is a young artist, Lalpha, played by Laetitia Kerfa, mother of a little boy and saleswoman in a boutique in sneakers in the Halles district in Paris, which must overcome the difficulties of the environment to establish itself in a very masculine industry.
By choosing this feminine prism, the scenario gains in density.
Despite some lengths in the first three episodes, "Validé 2" is then extremely rhythmic and punchy, thanks to its excellent cast.
Special mention to Moussa Mansaly who embodies the French rap star Mastar plagued by existential questions and Saïdou Camara, bluffing sensitivity.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“Validé 2”
, a series by Franck Gastambide, with Laëtitia Kerfa, Saïdou Camara, Brahim Bouhlel, Franck Gastambide, Sabrina Ouazani, Moussa Mansaly.
9 episodes of 30 minutes.