Director: Nine Antico
A dream job that turns out to be someone else's dream, a surprise pregnancy, and a return to waiting tables in Paris: The Playlist follows one young woman's messy attempt to hold her ambitions together while everything around her falls apart.
What is The Playlist about?
Sophie is twenty-eight and has just landed a coveted position at a well-known Parisian publishing house, the kind of opportunity most aspiring creatives would kill for. The catch is that it is not remotely the job she pictured for herself; what she actually wants is to see her own graphic art in print, not shepherd someone else's manuscripts into bookstores. That tension boils over the moment she tells her boyfriend Jean she is pregnant, a conversation that ends the relationship almost instantly. Suddenly single, financially unsteady, and pregnant, Sophie has little choice but to go back to serving tables, working alongside her best friend Julia, an actress still chasing her own break. From there, the series tracks how Sophie tries to reconcile a creative calling with the practical demands of rent, a baby on the way, and a support system that is far from stable. Director Nine Antico leans into wry, observational comedy rather than melodrama, finding humor in the gap between the life Sophie imagined and the one she is actually living through in the city.
Cast & crew
Sara Forestier plays Sophie with a mix of restlessness and dry humor that carries the series' tonal balance. Laetitia Dosch appears as Julia, the aspiring actress whose own struggles mirror Sophie's, while Andranic Manet and Grégoire Colin round out the men drifting in and out of her orbit. Inas Chanti, Pierre Lottin, Jackie Berroyer, and Bertrand Belin fill out the wider circle of friends, colleagues, and family surrounding the publishing house and the restaurant where Sophie works.
Context & significance
The Playlist is adapted from Nine Antico's own graphic novel work, which gives the series an unusually personal, illustrator's eye for the small humiliations and small victories of trying to make art while paying bills. Set against a contemporary Parisian backdrop of publishing houses, cramped apartments, and late-night restaurant shifts, the show sits comfortably alongside a wave of French comedies that treat creative ambition and financial precarity as inseparable. Its 2022 release found an audience drawn to stories about women navigating career compromise without the tidy resolutions typical of more conventional workplace comedies.
Where & how to watch
The Playlist is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers follow Sophie's story fully in Farsi. Anyone can browse the show's page without creating an account, and only watching the episodes requires a free K-Time login. The platform's Farsi menus and search make it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to find French comedy series like this one tucked in among the wider catalog.