Adam, a teenager with a reputation for being a lost cause, tries to find the best means to make girls fall for him - especially his crush, Jenna. His younger sister, Ève, never stops annoying him, and vice versa. The title, Soda, is the anagram of the word “ados”, "teenager" in French.
Production
An episode lasts twenty-four minutes, each divided into sequences of three minutes and a half. The shooting takes place in Bry-Sur-Marne.
Cast
Main
Kev Adams : Adam Fontella
Guy Lecluyse : Michel Fontella, Adam's dad
Laurence Oltuski : Élisabeth Fontella, Adam's mom
Syrielle Mejias : Ève Fontella, Adam's little sister
William Lebghil : Slimane Elboughi, Adam's friend
Gaël Cottat : Ludovic Drancourt, Adam's friend
Jéromine Chasseriaud : Adam's girlfriend
Lucie Boujenah : Jenna Malaurie, the highschooler thatis Adam's love interest
Louise Blachère : Stéphanie Bouvier, Jenna's friend, who is crazy in love with Slimane
Recurring
Dominique Frot : Solange Vergneaux, High School Principal/Headmaster
Alika Del Sol : Malika Elboughi, Slimane's mother and Babath's friend
Frank Bellocq : Patrick, High School Monitor
Chantal Garrigues : Gisèle Favrot, Babeth's mother and Adam and Ève's grandmother
John Eledjam : Uskur, Liberty's manager and Adam's boss
This season has been broadcast on M6 with 244 episodes. Adam is a normal teenager, he lives a quiet life in high school, he has two friends, Slimane and Ludovic. He is in love with the most beautiful girl of the high school, Jenna, who will never reciprocate his feelings. He is the oldest child in a middle-class family. His father, Michel, works in a bank and his mother Elizabeth is a beautician who has her own home business. Dreaming of having a golden life in the US, Adam thinks that this American Dream will fall straight into his hands so he has decided to do whatever he wants with his life, that is, not working in class, playing video-games again and again and doing bad pranks on the high school supervisors. However, his family compromises his American Dream by being very strict towards him, with his little sister’s bad tricks and by the numerous detentions gets by his high school’s director, Ms Vergneaux.
Season 2
This season has been broadcast on W9 with 249 episodes. This is Adam’s final year in high school. Nevertheless, he apparently did not make the choice of studying in order to get his A-levels. Besides, the Fontella family is going to put up with the more and more regular attendance of Babeth’s mother, Gisèle, to Michel’s utter despair who cannot stand his mother-in-law anymore. Eve will start showing some interest in Ludovic, Adam’s friend, but he will not see the young girl’s love and will only be interested in his school work or Adam’s jokes who are, most of the time, based on him. Slimane will have a hard time getting rid of Stephanie, Jenna’s best friend, who is constantly tagging along hoping he will fall for her.
Season 3
This season was aired on W9 on September 7, 2013 with a total of 300 episodes. It marks Jenna’s departure because her father is transferred to Africa for business. Adam works part-time in a kebab, Slimane is starting to show some affection for Stephanie, although before he seemed to hate her. In this season, Adam is dating Juliette, who is his after school teacher.
The first episodes had very good rating in terms of viewing, but the success did not last very long and fell to 1.2 million viewers. The producers still decide to shoot the next season but this time it is broadcast on W9 at 5:50 pm. On August 29, the show has a total of 1.2 million viewers and season 3 hits 900 000 viewers.
