Ángel o demonio (lit.: "Angel or Demon") is a Spanish supernatural drama television series produced by Plural Entertainment. Created by D.C. Torallas and Joaquín Górriz and starring, among others, Aura Garrido, Jaime Olías, Manu Fullola and Mar Saura, the two seasons of the series aired in 2011 on Telecinco. The plot concerns a struggle between good and evil, pitting "angels" against "fallen ones".
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Production company | Plural Entertainment |
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| Network | Telecinco |
| Release | 1 February – 13 July 2011 |
Premise
editValeria a 17-year-old student taking 2º de Bachillerato finds out she is not a common person but an angel.[1] Caught in between an age-old war between good an evil, Valeria is initially tutored by the angel Natael, but she feels attracted to the mysterious Damián.[1]
Cast
edit- Aura Garrido as Valeria Gascón[2]
- Jaime Olías as Damián[3]
- Manu Fullola as Natael[4]
- Mar Saura as Alexia[4]
- Carla Nieto as Iris[4]
- Jorge Suquet as Graziel[5]
- Carmen Sánchez as Duna[4]
- Jaime Pujol as Juan Carlos[4]
- Maru Valdivieso as Laia[4]
- Daniel Grao as Valafar[4]
- Roberto Hoyas as Adrián[4]
- Laura Aparicio as Fátima[4]
- Nazaret Aracil as Miranda[6]
- Robert Pinter as Rudy[7]
- Àlex Maruny as Joel[4]
- Susi Sánchez as Gabriel[4]
- Rocío Muñoz as Samanta[4]
- Aitana Hercal as Isa[4]
Besides the regular cast, the second season featured a number of cameos of popular actors and actresses, such as Natalia Sánchez, Marta Torné, Nacho Fresneda, Manuela Velasco, Adam Jezierski, Miriam Giovanelli, Ana Rujas, Pedro Casablanc, Arantxa del Sol, Luz Valdenebro, Julián Villagrán, Jan Cornet, Pau Colera, Aghnes Kiraly, Gorka Lasaosa, Eduard Farelo, Martjin Kuiper, Meghello Blanco and Marta Cruz.[8]
Production and release
editThe series was produced by Plural Entertainment for Cuatro. Following the merging of the companies operating Cuatro and Telecinco the latter channel eventually took on the series.[9] The creators of the series were D.C. Torallas and Joaquín Górriz.[3]
An industrial estate in Pinto was used as filming set.[10]
The first episode of the series premiered on Telecinco on 1 February 2011.[11] Starting with "adequate" audience scores in the opener (3,300,000 viewers; 15.9% share), the audience plummeted in the last episodes of the season, reaching its lowest point in the season finale (a 8.9% share), aired on 10 May 2011.[11] The series had been renovated for an already filmed second season comprising 9 episodes,[11] which was released without a halt on 17 May.[12]
The series ended on 13 July 2011, with 1,804,000 viewers and a 10,8% share, averaging the two seasons.[13]
Upon the time of its release, a number of notes observed that the series was riding the wave of The Twilight Saga fantasy romance film series in vogue at the time,[14][15][16][17][5] whereas Jaime Olías (the actor playing the fallen angel Damián) was dubbed by fans as the "Spanish Robert Pattinson",[5] Edward Cullen in the Twilight films. Reviewing the first episode, Alberto Rey (writing in El Mundo website) described the series as a "Twilight without vampires" and as a Joan of Arcadia adapted to the manual of the typical Spanish series.[18]
References
edit- ^ "Cuatro enfrenta un ángel contra demonios en su nueva serie". La Información. 16 December 2010.
- ^ a b "Mar Saura, un demonio cruel y violento en Cuatro". Vertele. eldiario.es. 15 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Arancha del Sol y Marta Torné, nuevos cameos en "Ángel o Demonio"". Vertele. eldiario.es. 16 May 2011.
- ^ a b c "Qué bueno es ser malo". El País. 15 April 2011.
- ^ "La valenciana Nazaret Aracil, la pija de Cuéntame, desnuda en Interviú". Las Provincias. 23 June 2014.
- ^ Palmero, M. (8 January 2015). "Robert Pinter, de 'Ángel o demonio' a revolucionar la cocina de 'MasterChef Chile'". El Confidencial.
- ^ "Manuela Velasco, una secuaz de los caídos en 'Ángel o demonio'". FormulaTV. 27 May 2011.
- ^ Onieva, Álvaro (25 January 2011). "'Ángel o Demonio', todas las claves de la serie". Espinof.
- ^ "La ficción de Telecinco "Ángel o demonio" prepara su segunda temporada". Canarias7. 10 February 2011.
- ^ a b c "'Ángel o demonio' (12,4%) se despide con una gran caída de audiencia". FormulaTV. 11 May 2011.
- ^ "Las series españolas sufren 'astenia primaveral'". Vertele. eldiario.es. 30 May 2011.
- ^ Serra, Oriol; López, Tony (7 March 2015). "Telecinco cumple 25 años: recordamos 25 series que han marcado su historia (Parte 2)". FormulaTV.
- ^ "'Ángel o Demonio', a examen en Twitter". Sensacine. 2 February 2011.
- ^ "Ángel o Demonio', la nueva serie de ficción con la que Telecinco espera conquistar la parrilla". ¡Hola!. 31 January 2011.
- ^ "Telecinco estrena la serie fantástica "Ángel o demonio"". Noticias de Álava. 23 January 2011.
- ^ "Telecinco apuesta por el género fantástico para su nueva serie". Levante-EMV. 1 February 2011.
- ^ ""Ángel o Demonio es un Crepúsculo sin vampiros que a veces sorprende"". Vertele. eldiario.es. 1 February 2011.