The budding relationship between Jack and Rayane fascinates fans of "Tomorrow belongs to us". So much so that "Jayane" becomes an international phenomenon on the networks, which is reminiscent of what happened with "Skam".
Even before the real start of their romantic relationship, a couple from Tomorrow belongs to us is becoming a phenomenon on social networks. In France of course, but also well beyond our borders. Unheard of for the daily soap opera broadcast since 2017 on TF1.
Present in the series since last November, Rayane Saeed (Sasha Birdy), the nephew of Karim (Samy Gharbi), made a remarkable arrival at Agnès Varda high school at the beginning of January, where his side I don't care and his arrogance n were quick to make sparks with the teachers and his classmates.
Including Lizzie (Juliette Mabilat) and Jack (Dimitri Fouque), twins from the Roussel family, who became the target of his mockery and jokes.
Over the episodes of Tomorrow belongs to us broadcast in recent days, Jack and Rayane have however ended up getting closer. And by forging a friendship that immediately melted the hearts of viewers and Internet users.
Behind his shell, Rayane, who does not openly assume his homosexuality outside the family circle, seems to have been touched by what his comrade is going through, who lost his sight a few weeks ago following a terrible shock in the face. .
A sequence from the episode of Friday January 27 during which Rayane will come to Jack's rescue in high school promises to bring them even closer. And is already causing a lot of talk on social networks, where this important scene in the emerging story between these two characters leaked even before it was broadcast on the air or on Salto.
Visibly far from being insensitive to each other, will the two teenagers played by Dimitri Fouque and Sasha Birdy end up confessing their feelings and living a great and beautiful love story, capable of competing with the couple "Greliott" from Here it all starts? That's all we can wish for "Jayane", a future couple already emblematic of Tomorrow belongs to us, who is entitled to their own hashtag on Twitter, TikTok or Instagram.
Tomorrow belongs to us in the footsteps of Skam?
While waiting for a declaration of love or a passionate first kiss, Internet users from all over the world are already vibrating to the rhythm of the slow and beautiful rapprochement between Jack and Rayane, which takes the form of a touching subplot and owes a lot to the accuracy of play by Dimitri Fouque and Sasha Birdy.
Because the most astonishing part of this whole story is that, beyond the many montages alternating between sequences from the series and videos taken from the personal stories of the actors on Instagram, Twitter accounts, including @jackxrayane, have made it their mission to subtitle the scenes of Jack and Rayane in English or Spanish.
An approach that is reminiscent of what happened a few years ago with Isak and Even in the Norwegian series Skam, then with Lucas (Axel Auriant) and Eliott (Maxence Danet-Fauvel) in Skam France, two version of the same couple who ignited fans of all nationalities, who could revel in their adventures thanks to homemade subtitling by passionate Internet users.
Elevated to the rank of a phenomenon thanks to the fans, Skam benefited from a strong resonance with the LGBTQ+ community, which literally fell under the spell of the Isak/Even-Lucas/Eliott relationship (and the interpreters of the characters), and there found a positive portrayal of same-sex relationships that until then had been sorely lacking on television.
Since then, a little ground has been covered, but the question of the importance of representations, particularly with regard to the LGBTQ+ community, remains essential. And very slowly, Jayane could well be making a place for herself among the teenage "couples" of series that will mark the history of the small screen.
As proof, fan videos devoted to Jack and Rayane, posted on TikTok or on Youtube, managed to accumulate more than 10,000, even 20,000 views in 24 hours. And total, for some, more than 100,000 viewings to date.
TF1 and the screenwriters of Tomorrow belongs to us did they suspect that they held such a phenomenon in their hands by finally offering a love story to Jack, who had experienced a major disappointment with Hadrian (Anthony Colette)? Probably not.
Now that the machine is launched, the hardest thing certainly remains to be done for the collection director Nicolas Brossette and his team of authors: not to disappoint Jayane fans.