Graduados (Colombia)

Graduados
Genre comedy
Created by Sebastián Ortega
Written by Fabiola Carrillo
Patricia Rodriguez
Carolina Barrera
Directed by Víctor Mallarino
Sergio Osorio
Starring Luis Fernando Hoyos
Kathy Sáenz
Jorge Enrique Abello
Santiago Moure
Zharick León
Diana Ángel
Country of origin Colombia
Original language(s) Spanish
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 257
Release
Original network RCN Televisión
Original release September 18, 2013 (2013-09-18) – October 16, 2014 (2014-10-16)
Chronology
Preceded by Allá te espero
Followed by Manual para ser feliz

Graduados is a 2013 Colombian telenovela, a remake of the Argentine telenovela Graduados. It was starred by Luis Fernando Hoyos, Kathy Sáenz, Jorge Enrique Abello, Santiago Moure, Zharick León and Diana Ángel.[1]

Plot

The first episode takes place in a graduation night, in 1993. María Laura Vallejo (Kathy Saenz), the girlfriend of the school bully Pablo Urrutia (Jorge Enrique Abello), left him when he cheated her. Andrés Torres (Luis Fernando Hoyos) drives her out of the school premises and had sex with her. She got pregnant, and got married with Pablo, as she thought that he was the father of her boy.

After a time skip of 20 years, Andrés meets María Laura again, and they discover that her son Martín (Juan Pablo Urrego) was actually the son of Andrés and not Pablo.

Reception

The original telenovela Graduados was a huge success in Argentina, so RCN Televisión bought the rights to make a Colombian remake, expecting a similar success. However, the series had a poor reception. Ómar Rincon, from the newspaper "El Tiempo", attributed it to the poor actor performances, a failure to capture the feeling of the eighties, plot references to the Argentine society which were not properly modified to reference the Colombian one, and a failure to use the music as a plot element, rather than as a mere background.[2] The Colombian writer Cecilia Percy pointed as well that there are few previous attempts in Colombia to produce remakes, and that they usually generated poor received works even when the original one was a success.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Comenzaron a grabar la versión colombiana de Graduados (Spanish)
  2. 1 2 Amanda Ospina. "'Los graduados', un éxito en Argentina y una adaptación perdedora en Colombia" [Los Graduados, a success in Argentina and a poor remake in Colombia] (in Spanish). TV Más. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

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