Once Upon a Twice (on France 2): what should we understand about the end of the series?
The two creators explain the final outcome to us. The entire series can be watched again in streaming on France.tv.
It’s one of the great successes of the start of the year on French television: It Was Twice brought together millions of viewers on Wednesday evening on France 2, but also in streaming on the France.tv platform (where it has been offered in full for several weeks).
And it’s time for the big reveal, last night, with the broadcast of episode 6 on France 2. A finale that deserves a few little explanations. Especially since this serial version has taken quite a few liberties with Franck Thilliez’s novel. Narrative options assumed by the creators and screenwriters, Eric Delafosse and France Jacquet, who considered the book too dark to be adapted as is for television.
Warning spoilers!
They thus reshaped a good part of history. And so the end. They explain to us:
“In the final outcome, we discover that Gabrielle (Odile Vuillemin) killed the right person, namely Caleb (Lannick Gautry), the one who had hurt her daughter. It was a fun little twist that we tried to put in place: all the keys were already there, in the first episode! But the confirmation only comes at the end of the series,” explains Eric Delafosse to Première. “We also understand that Paul (Hubert Delattre), the commander and her former lover, has been protecting her all this time. It’s a sort of declaration of love. He understood that it was she who had taken revenge. Finally, Gabrielle realizes that she killed someone, not in her duties as a gendarme, but in her duties as a mother.”
France Jacquet then explains that the screenwriters deliberately left doubt about Gabrielle’s memories: did she regain her memory in this final scene?
“It’s the only blur that remains in the background. Because we have the impression that she remembers with this flashback. But for us, she doesn’t remember! This sequence appears like a revelation for the viewer. But Gabrielle has not really regained her memory, even if the editing can give that feeling.”
In the end, Eric Delafosse and France Jacquet assume the happy ending which concludes Once Upon a Twice:
“There is no idea of doing a season 2. But we still suggest that Gabrielle will now have to live with the guilt of having killed Caleb, without even knowing how. She knows why. She found her daughter and that’s all that matters for Gabrielle. But she also knows that she is capable of the worst and, today, she must live with it…”
