Graduados

Graduados (English: The Graduates) is a 2012 Argentine telenovela which was broadcast by Telefe from March 12 to December 19. The plot concerns a group of 1989 high-school graduates who reunite twenty years later. The main character, Andrés Goddzer (Daniel Hendler), discovers that María Laura Falsini (Nancy Dupláa) was pregnant in 1989 and married Pablo Catáneo (Luciano Cáceres), who thought that he was the child's father. The resulting parental dispute, the love triangle of the main characters and 1980s nostalgia are frequent plot elements, and story arcs related to school bullying and LGBT rights are also featured. The frequent flashbacks of the characters to their high-school days use the same actors, playing teenagers.

The series, written by Sebastián Ortega, was produced by Endemol and Underground producciones. Although Andy Kusnetzoff was offered the lead-character role, Hendler was cast when Kusnetzoff turned it down (the latter joined the cast several months later as another character). The telenovela featured cameos and guest appearances by Argentine rock musicians and other celebrities. Graduados was widely successful, prevailing in the ratings over the blockbuster competitive dance program Showmatch and the telenovela Sos mi hombre. Although it received the 2012 Golden Martín Fierro award, seven other Martín Fierro Awards and ten Tato Awards (including Program of the Year), plans for theatrical and film adaptions were abandoned. The telenovela's proposed second season was renamed Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll, with most of the cast and similar storylines. Local versions of the series have been made in Chile, Colombia and Greece.

Graduados (Colombia)

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.

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. 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.

Graduados (disambiguation)

Graduados was an Argentine telenovela. It had several remakes: