The second season of Atresmedia’s fiction shows the complicated path of María (Ana Rujas) after her release from prison
Maria is no longer the same person as before. He doesn’t want to go back. After going to prison, he wants to resume life in a different way and tries to break away from the dark spiral that consumed him a year ago. And in this transition, the relocation process will not be easy. Thus begins the second season of “Cardo”, the award-winning fiction that will premiere its new chapters tomorrow on Atresplayer Premium, which now wants to go a step further and portray a society in which not everything is as beautiful as it seems.
Produced by Atresmedia Televisión in collaboration with Suma Content, the new episodes of the series begin as an evolution of the previous ones in which there has been a three-year period. This time jump is not indifferent to the main character, María, played by Ana Rujas, in whose first episode she gets the third degree, leaves prison and goes to sleep alone in a social integration center. A new adventure in life, in which he will have to face daily frustrations and fears and fulfill one of the promises he swore during his time in prison: to help one of his former cellmates in her relationship with her daughter.
“We have a protagonist at a different vital moment, with a different way of seeing life. All this led to the fact that the fiction formally dragged itself into another staging,” continues one of the creators of the fiction, Claudia Costrafeda, about the evolution of the main character of “Cardo”, who finds the way to convert into the Catholic faith. traveling to a new life full of misfortunes on the streets. “María tries to rid herself of guilt. Last year we had that young woman with curly hair and those dances at the disco, in this second season we see her with a braid, anxiolytics and working at a bingo. Everything has changed radically,” he explains.
Because in this return to street religion and the figure of Santa Teresa de Jesús will accompany a young woman who cannot find her place in society. “We inherited a bit of the religious symbolism from the first season and this time we integrated it into the character. It suited us to explain who the new María was,” explains Costafreda.
In this return to the flow of daily routine, María is eager to mend the bonds of her past, but things have changed and she is left alone. Her friends have a different life. Reintegration is not easy and she tries to find a job. However, he cannot overcome his fear, so the world of excesses and drugs will again be his escape valve. If “Cardo” in the first season shone with its reliable portrayal of the thirty-something generation, with their sentimental and work failures, uncertain futures and unfulfilled expectations, without even knowing how to steer the future, in these new episodes there is another twist.
“This season is about fear, something that is important in this society right now. Every person suffers from it to a greater or lesser extent, including me, and that is not a problem of a generation, but of today’s society,” admits the protagonist and also co-creator of this production, Ana Rujas. «In these chapters, not only the thirties are discussed, but also the mothers, other characters. Also for the geeks. We are not just going to show a generational portrait,” adds Costrafeda.
Barely a year and a half after its premiere, ‘Thistle’ has become one of the most successful little gems of national fiction beyond our borders. Trade magazine ‘Variety’ placed it in its top 3 best series of 2021 and additionally received nominations for the Seoul International Drama Awards in two categories.
In December, it won the Ondas Award for Best Dramatic Series. A distinction from critics and audiences, in short, from a local production, shot in Carabanchel and Malasaña (Madrid). “When you see something from a very specific place, that portrays a place with its culture and its way of speaking, it is always striking and attracts,” says Costrafreda, who excludes a third season of this story: “More is there no conspiracy for Maria. We left her alone.”
Source: La Verdad
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