Telecinco finally presented in society ‘Scandal, story of an obsession’his first fiction series of this 2023, with the launch of a first trailer that has caused a tremendous controversy in social networks. Less than a minute of images have been necessary to outrage thousands of people and receive accusations of “promote pedophilia” or what “the Ministry of Equality would have already put the cry in the heavens“of changing the genders of its protagonists.
It is true that the story of ‘Scandal, story of an obsession’ is most striking, since it tells the story of Inés (Alexandra Jimenez), a 42-year-old woman who hates her life, which causes her to end up trying to commit suicide. However, HughFernando Lindez), a 15-year-old teenager, saves her at the last moment and shortly after a forbidden romance begins between them.
It is not difficult to understand the reason that has led many people to conclude that ‘Scandal, tale of an obsession’ is going to romanticize that relationship, but the title of the series itself seems a pretty clear clue that the approach is not going to be precisely that . A separate question is that they get it later, well Many are already systemically suspicious of anything that comes from Mediaset.
In his favor he has that behind ‘Scandal, story of an obsession’ is Alea Mediathe producer of Aitor Gabilondo that he released titles such as ‘Patria’ or ‘Entrevías’ at the time, so that a priori it is impossible to believe that he is going to fall into anything remotely similar to whitewashing pedophilia.
The response of one of the writers
In fact, santiago diazwriter of two episodes of the series, has come out in defense of ‘Scandal, tale of an obsession’, affirming the following about her:
I hear people say that in this series (of which I have written two chapters and I assure you that it is very good) we intend to normalize pedophilia. Does its title really lead you to think that? “Scandal” and “obsession” doesn’t sound very romantic…
From the information that is already known about the series, everything indicates that Inés is going to become obsessed with Hugo and that ‘Scandal, tale of an obsession’ will be much closer to being a sick thriller than a romantic drama. Having said this, it is always best to see it before passing sentence and we will have to wait a short while to be able to do so, since its premiere on Telecinco will take place this Wednesday, January 11 at 10:50 p.m..
By the way, the enormous controversy that this series is causing before its premiere is surprising, and how completely unnoticed a film like ‘El doble plus fifteen’ went by at the time…
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