When ‘Cardo’ was released a little while ago, we did not expect that the portrait of this young woman and her path of destruction would captivate us so much. It is true that words like “honesty” and “crudity” are sometimes coined in productions like this (and in 2022 with ‘Self-Defense’) in a way that is a bit lazy, but the reality is that there is an exquisite maturity that made it sneak into our favorite series.
Now the Atresplayer Premium series returns from today Sunday with a season 2, which jumps three years in time to meet the new life of María (Ana Rujas), converted devotee of Saint Teresa of Jesuswho is in a penitentiary regime that allows him to leave the Social Integration Center during the day.
We already saw in the previews of the season, perhaps with greater incision in the first, how in these new episodes Maria he will have to deal with the guilt and with the promise, insistent, that he has changed. That everything is fine. But it comes out pretty regular. A desire to start from scratch that is impossible when you have a giant brand.
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Claudia Costafreda’s script wants to influence in this second season both guilt and shame. In event and in trauma, call it being in jail for killing someone, call it because it’s hard for us to accept. Or also, that is difficult to verbalize in front of people. That we don’t want too much to be known… so as not to lose friends, support, possibilities for the future.
With this in mind and with Santa Teresa in my soul, María will try not to shipwreck In his life, he was navigating between that feeling of shame, the desire to show that he is no longer in his self-destructive spiral and, of course, the occasional bad decision before (and after) his return alarm to the CIS goes off.
Said Rujas and Costafreda, at the time co-creators of ‘Cardo’, that the idea with season 2 was to move to another emotional place. We could say that they succeed because of course the relative lightness, with that even comic look of the self-destructive, disappears. It’s like when ‘Bojack Horseman’ gave you a smack of reality: sadness and a certain despair permeates everything.
A general change of mind that corners the well-intentioned protagonist, who sees himself continually crashing into those walls that did not seem to exist in his life before. One that has been frozen for three years, unlike everyone else’s. Suddenly there are babies, her friends have advanced in her career. She looks stuck.
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With a very precise pulse, Costafreda and her team fantastically execute these episodes, whose biggest flaw is that they pass in a breath. Having seen only three episodes (of twenty-odd minutes each), it is difficult for me to enter into a global assessment, especially because of the feeling that, with great difficulty, we are scratching the surface.
In short, season 2 of ‘Thistle’ solves quite correctly a change of tone and mood that, while not too drastic, is important. After surprising us with their first installment, in this second installment they once again show great maturity and daring when it comes to telling the story of María.