HIT

[jjose712]

HIT is the new teen show in prime time of tve.

I hesitate to open a thread because it's quite unconventional. They aired three episodes and romance had zero importance on the plot.

Well, we have a high shool (Anne Frank) which used to be a good one, it was founded in the 80's by the mother of the director and was very liberal for its time. But time passed and now it's quite conflictive.
After four cars being burned the director try to approach a famous tv personality, known for his tv and performances about educations. The guy, Hugo Ibarra Toledo (the name of the show are his initials) is quite controversial and his methods are not usual. But there's more, because he didn't teach in a good while (since a shooting when he was teaching in the USA).
The director and him are old friends and she convinces him to teach there.

He realize the main problems on the school are on 9 of the students. There's two gangs (curiously both lead by a girl), al the members have their own problems, so he convinces their parents to do separate therapy.

Dario, is the gay (or bi) character, and he is not a member of any of the two gangs, he is solitary and he is totally adverse of touching and quite adicted to internet. Hugo discovers that he uploads video on gay sites and then blackmail the possible clients, unlike other students he is not poor, so it's unknown the reason why he does that.

I have my doubts on open the thread because it was not known what is his sexuality appart of the fact that he has obvious problems with it. The fact that the actor is the most handsome in the cast made me doubt too (on a teen show that is usually reserved for the main straight character who hooks up with the main girl character), but in the third episode he is called a gay slur (he couldn't care less) and at the end of the episode he is masturbating watching a video of his teacher (which is not very straight).

I remember having a bad reaction to the trailer but i had a bad reaction to the Love, Víctor trailer and then i liked the show, so i watched (the very good reviews helped too), and the show is good.

Probably it's not the kind of show that will have following online because as i said it doesn't focus (at least till now) on romance. The only kissing scene between the teenagers had more to do with manipulation than with love.

This is the trailer (the whole episodes can be seen on the tve website)

[jjose712]

Well, the show ends its first season today (it was a success so probably it'll be a second) and it was very very different to all teen shows i watched recently.

Hugo has a couple of relationships (the one that goes from the beginning is pretty disastrous) but there's zero romance for all the teens whic is an anomaly in this kind of shows.

The show focus on therapy and education and there's a slow development of the characters (slow but pretty clear). All of them were very unlikeable at first, but even it's difficult to justify what they did or do at least you can understand where they came from, and at least you can root for them (well, Lena is a hard sell)

I can only remember three kissing scenes Lena kissing Gus (to manipulate him), Marga kissing Dario (she ask him if he was gay before and he didn't answer) and Silvia and Nourding bonding over their mutual pain, that's the only relationship that can get anywhere. Silvia had a very strong break down (she ended naked in the middle of the school) and Nourdin was abused as kid (it's a powerful scene when he recognized that even he hated his abuser he felt jelousy when he payed attention to other kids).

Other thing that surprised me is the fact that half of the main teen characters are virgins, and in a couple of cases those first relationships were not fairytales

I spend almost all the show wondering if Dario is gay or not. He didn't change his ways, and kept blackmailing men from internet (that obviously ends very wrong), and two episodes ago you can understand his behaviour (he caught a private teacher, and he seemed quite infatuated with him, having sex with his father), but he slowly starts to open and bond with the other guys, specially with Marga.
In the last episode is pretty obvious that he has a huge crush on Hugo.

Given the nature of the show i don't know if the second season will get the same characters but i hope so, because it would be very interesting to show how they start to develop into the new people they became.
And some of them (Adres is a prime example) were barely known till the last episodes

[jjose712]

The show ended last monday. It was a satisfactory ending but not a happy one.

Dario came out to his father and they have a bonding momment (when he recognized his feeling for his teacher).

Some of the students started to move on (specially Silvia and Nourdin) but most of them are in the first steps of recovery. And it was nice watching the group bonding in the end.

The show was renewed and i hope they keep the cast because it'll be interesting to watch the characters evolving (and maybe some romance for Dario)

[jjose712]

Today they'll air the second season. I think there'll be queer characters too but i'll miss the old cast (when you start to like them, and they were very unlikeable, the show ends and there's new ones)