C & # 39; was the first of "El Marginal 2" – 17/07/2018

Today, Tuesday, at age 22, "El Marginal 2" was created on Argentine public television. Co-produced by Underground – by Sebastián Ortega – and directed by Adrián Caetano and Alejandro Ciancio, this series of eight chapters is the prequel to the fiction of the prison "El Marginal".

On Twitter, # ElMarginal2 was top trend and among the comments originally, those related to the rating were distinguished: he got peaks of 11 points, a very high figure for the usual numbers at the public television.

"El Marginal 2" – with a book by Guillermo Salmerón and Silvina Olschansky – goes back in time to tell how life was lived in the penitentiary of San Onofre – directed by Antín (Gerardo Romano) – when the Borges brothers arrived , Diosito (Nicolás Furtado) and Mario (Claudio Rissi).

Here and there, there was a key figure: El Sapo (Roly Serrano). Neither more nor less than a bloody prisoner who holds power and whom the Borges seek to move. "Asphalt pirate … hijacking … has no code," Mario told Diosito about El Sapo.

Another of the new characters is Patricio, aka "El Doc" (Esteban Lamothe), a doctor who, as they were advancing in these days press information, is imprisoned by a crime that he did not commit. With a minimum of dialogue in the first chapter, Lamothe gave a theater clbad. Everything was credible in his Patricio: the bewilderment, the contained anger, that attentive observer 's own look to one who feels alien to the marginality of a place that he does not have. did not imagine arriving. And, at the end of the chapter, impeccable his interpretation of this "doc" who decides to behave before like the doctor who is like the inmate who had been humiliated shortly before.

As for the character of El Sapo, it seems built to the extent of Roly Serrano, and he demonstrated, from the first pictures, that he knew how to appropriate it.

The opening episode of "El Marginal 2" went to blood and fire. He did not breathe. No downtime, no unnecessary dialogue, no fill scenes. What was seen was an uncompromising portrait of this prison where you live in a state of violence without roof or law. A flawless fresco of "The Villa" – the yard that leads the Sub 21 – a place where fighting is to kill or die, where life is not worth much more than death, where the strongest puts the price and the weaker, hoping that someday he will manage to reverse the roles.

Social worker Emma (Martina Gusmán) and Morcilla (Carlos Portaluppi) have reappeared this season. A promising addition is that of Verónica Llinás, in the role of social worker Rita, a former connoisseur of all the miseries of the prison and dedicated, as she has said, to "scratching the days that I am". I have retired. "

The great virtue of "The Marginal 2" is probably likelihood. The characters, the performances, the sets, the language, the staging, the costumes: none of this is reality – it is clear that it is not a documentary – and yet, all this is totally believable. The virtue of good fiction: let us believe that lies are the truth.

The prequel of the series will respond to many situations that were known in the first season and will explain the origin of the different characters. This has been advanced by the public television itself on Twitter.