Maria is no longer the same person as before. She doesn’t want to go back. After going to jail, she wants to resume life in another way and tries to get away from the dark spiral that consumed her just a year ago. And in this transition, the reinsertion process is not going to be easy. This is how the second season of ‘Cardo’ begins, the award-winning fiction that premieres its new chapters tomorrow on Atresplayer Premium, which now wants to go one 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 installments of the series start as an evolution of the previous one in which there has been a period of three years. This time jump is not indifferent to the protagonist, María, played by Ana Rujas, in whose first episode she is awarded the third degree, she leaves prison and only goes to sleep at a social integration center. A new adventure in life, in which he will have to face daily frustrations, anxiety, and fulfill one of the promises he swore during his stay in prison: help one of his former cellmates in her relationship with her daughter. .
catholic faith
«We have a protagonist in a different vital moment, with a different way of seeing life. All this has caused the fiction to formally drag itself to another staging”, advances one of the creators of the fiction, Claudia Costrafeda, about the evolution of the main character of ‘Cardo’, who finds the path to travel in the Catholic faith towards a new life full of adversities on the street. «María tries to redeem herself from guilt. If last year we had that young woman with curly hair and those dances at the disco, in this second season we will see her with a braid, anxiolytics and working at a bingo. Everything has changed radically », she explains.
Because in this return to the streets, religion and the figure of Santa Teresa de Jesús will guide a young woman who cannot find her place in society. «We have inherited a bit of the religious symbology from the first season and this time we have integrated it into her character. It was convenient for us to explain who the new María was, “clarifies Costafreda.
In this return to the flow of daily routine, María would like to recover the ties of her past, but things have changed and she is left alone. Her friends have another life. Reintegration is not easy and she tries to find a job. However, she cannot overcome anxiety, so the world of excesses and drugs will once again be her escape valve. If in the first season ‘Cardo’ shone for its reliable portrayal of the generation of thirty-somethings, with their sentimental and work failures, uncertain futures and unfulfilled expectations, without knowing how to guide the future either, in these new installments there has been another twist.
«This season talks about anxiety, something that is important in this society right now. Each person suffers from it to a greater or lesser extent, me too, and that is not a problem of a generation, but of the present society”, admits the leading actress and also co-creator of this production, Ana Rujas. «In these chapters, the thirty-somethings will not be reflected exclusively, but the mothers, other characters. Also to the geeks. We are not only 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 jewels of national fiction outside our borders. The specialized magazine ‘Variety’ placed it in its top 3 of the best series of 2021 and also 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, which portrays a place with its culture and its way of speaking, it is always striking and attracts,” says Costrafreda, who rules out a third season of this story: “There is no more plot for Maria. We left her alone.”