Paso Adelante, 5 reasons to return to the 2000s with a Spanish series

Bear? V The last of us? No, it seems to be the most anticipated episode of these months Paso Adelante. At least, judging by the (social) response that his return to our screens caused. Spanish series that aired with the original six seasons between 2002 and 2008, available from August on Netflix and many former teenagers in the early 2000s – when the show aired in Italy afternoon 1 – ready to jump into the past, full of nostalgia. In fact, there are several shows that can perfectly portray a very specific era of media and television, the one at the turn of the millennium, with its fashion and trends. Events Lola (Beatrice Rico) Pedro (Pablo Puyol) Silvia (Monica Cruz, sister of the more famous Penelope), Robert (Miguel Angel Muñoz) and their professors in School of Performing Arts Carmen Arranz in Madrid they are marked by the memories and aspirations of boys and girls across Europe. In this renaissance era of the 2000s, so Paso Adelante And perfect summer revision:

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fashion for talent

The success of the series Paso Adelante also related to its ability intercept the real Zeitgeist what was circulating in the entertainment of those years: while reality shows were raging on television, in fact, another genre was already ready to take its place and influence society and culture in different ways. Obviously, it’s about talent show. If somehow the Spanish series was the heir to the cult of the 90s, how Glory: they will be famous, his influence paved the way for children’s stories entirely dedicated to various types of performing arts. After an unstable start between 2001 and 2002, Maria De Filippi’s program They will be famouslater renamed Friends, established itself as one of Mediaset’s greatest successes and continues today. From clothes dance dimension to the singing competitions that raged in the schools (MTV even made a program for us, School in action), it was an era when teenagers across the country wanted to try their hand at first-class performances.

nostalgic music

Review today Paso Adelante it means traveling through time in many different ways. But perhaps what most comes to mind is there. music of those years. The episodes, based mostly on singing and dancing (as well as acting), show the protagonists struggling with the most successful songs of the time. Watching the binge now somehow means the rebirth of one Nostalgic Y2K playlistwith songs that made an entire generation dance: from toxic Britney Spears My… Lolita Alize, from Crazy about love Beyonce A. Don’t stop, move on S Club 7 passing through Played live Safri Duo. Of course, there was also a lot of Spanish music (and one of the actors, Miguel Angel Munozbecame a real pop star, thanks to such hits as Diras que estoy loco). However, the performance also gave place to local translators: in one of the episodes, the performance has a background Baila Morena SaharaBye Tiziano Ferro appears as a guest star singing his own Relative rojo

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Educational approach

However, not only the show dominated the plots Paso Adelante. The stories of boys and girls were the focus of the series. far from patinated lives: were those who humble originwho came from wealthy families, but without any outburst of feelings, who had to deal with the physical or mental problems of their parents, and so on. The fact that these figures are simple, almost ordinary, allows younger audience to empathize and hence to address complex but necessary issues such as alcoholism, abortion, eating disorders, sex work. Staying away from complexity prestigious dramaway which Paso Adelante managed to combine the most spectacular entertainment and some more serious topics, which still made it an interesting viewing for audience at the training.

European Supremacy

Another reason to be proud Paso Adelante it is the fact that in the panorama already subjected at that time to the American or English series, it was one A European production that has finally managed to cross the threshold one country and reach a wider audience (as in Italy, it was a great success in France, Germany, Greece, Belgium, etc.). Even if the fame of international successes such as paper house AND Elite were far in the future, Spain was already positioning itself as a market to keep an eye on experimentation with genres and languages. It is no coincidence that we have inspired Mediaset fiction – albeit with very modest results – Big Tomorrows and then gave way to a number of productions (such as for example Cesaroni), which winked at both adult and young audiences. In short, it was somehow the birth of a primal girl transnational and transgenerational television habit.

a revival is coming

Review Paso Adelante

it is also useful because revival. Well, yes, like any cult series, this Spanish production also had a second chance: UPA Nextthis is the title of the new season, which aired on the Spanish channel Antena 3 from May to June last year, with the return of actors such as Monica Cruz, Miguel Angel Muñoz and Beatriz Luengo returning to reimagining their characters. 15 years after the end of the parent series. Faced with a new generation of emerging artists, they will have to use their experience to talk to them. a completely different era. But how to imagine the future without knowing the past? Paso Adelantethanks to this revival (which does not yet have a platform or debut date in Italy), confirms its status milestone teen television in recent decadesto reopen binge browsing after binge browsing.