Merlí (TV series)
| Merlí | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Héctor Lozano and Eduard Cortés |
| Starring | Francesc Orella Pere Ponce Pau Durà Mar del Hoyo David Solans Candela Antón Albert Baró Pau Poch Carlos Cuevas Elisabet Casanovas Anna M. Barbany Marta Marco Victòria Pagès Asunción Balaguer |
| Opening theme | By Xavi Capellas |
| Ending theme | By Xavi Capellas |
| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language | Catalan |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Televisió de Catalunya |
| Production location | Barcelona |
| Original release | |
| Release | 14 September 2015 |
Merlí is a television series produced by Catalan channel TV3 about a philosophy teacher of the same name, who encourages students to think freely using some unorthodox methods, dividing the opinions of the class, teachers and families.
With some influence from films like Dead Poets Society, in Merlí, the director attempts to bring philosophy closer to everyone. Each episode includes the approaches of some great thinker or school, such as peripatetic, Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, linking the events and the characters.
The series, created and written by Hector Lozano and directed by Eduard Cortés, premiered on TV3 on September 14, 2015 in primetime and reached a share of 17.7% with 566,000 viewers.[1] In total the series consists of 13 episodes, baptized with the name of different philosophers.
The series has been dubbed into Spanish by the company Atresmedia, and was broadcast on the television channel La Sexta from April to June 2016. In November 2016, the American company Netflix bought the first season of the series in Spanish to broadcast in the Latin America and the United States.[2] Currently the second season of the series is being broadcast on TV3.
Characters
The characters in the series can be divided into three groups: students, teachers and family.
Teachers
- Francesc Orella is Merlí Bergeron.
- Pere Ponce is Eugeni Bosc.
- Pau Durà is Toni.
- Pep Jové is Santi.
- Assun Planas is Glòria.
- Patrícia Bargalló is Mireia.
- Mar del Hoyo is Laia.
- Rubén de Eguía is Albert.
Students
- David Solans is Bruno Bergeron.
- Carlos Cuevas is Pol Rubio.
- Candela Antón is Berta Prats.
- Albert Baró is Joan Capdevila.
- Adrian Grösser is Marc Vilaseca.
- Marcos Franz is Gerard Piguillem.
- Pau Poch is Ivan Blasco.
- Júlia Creus is Mònica de Villamore.
- Elisabet Casanovas is Tània Illa.
- Iñaki Mur is Oliver Grau.
- Cristina Colom is Diana.
- Clàudia Puntí is Laura.
- Pol Hermoso is Uri.
- Marc Arias is Xavi.
Family
- Anna M. Barbany is Carmina Calduch.
- Marta Marco is Gina Castells.
- Jordi Martínez is Jaume Capdevila.
- Victòria Pagès is Aurèlia Bonet.
- Anna Ycobalzeta is Míriam Blasco.
- Marta Domingo is Elsa García.
- Marta Calvó is Bàrbara.
- Asunción Balaguer is the Grandmother.
- Oriol Pla is Óscar.
- Carlos Vicente is Enric.
Episodes
Season 1
| Num Prog. |
Name | Broadcast Date | Viewers[1] | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Els Peripatètics | September 14, 2015 | 566.000 | 17,7% |
| 2 | Plató | Semptemer 21, 2015 | 544.000 | 17,2% |
| 3 | Maquiavel | September 28, 2015 | 556.000 | 16,7% |
| 4 | Aristòtil | October 5, 2015 | 591.000 | 19,3% |
| 5 | Sòcrates | October 12, 2015 | 559.000 | 18,8% |
| 6 | Schopenhauer | October 19, 2015 | 538.000 | 17,0% |
| 7 | Foucault | October 26, 2015 | 459.000 | 15,2% |
| 8 | Guy Debord | November 2, 2015 | 555.000 | 19,1% |
| 9 | Epicur | November 9, 2015 | 559.000 | 18,3% |
| 10 | Els escèptics | November 16, 2015 | 577.000 | 19,6% |
| 11 | Els sofistes | November 23, 2015 | 610.000 | 20,5% |
| 12 | Hume | November 30, 2015 | 592.000 | 19,9 % |
| 13 | Nietzsche | December 7, 2015 | 591.000 | 19,4% |
References
- ^ "Netflix compra los derechos de 'Merlí' para América Latina y Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). El Mundo. Retrieved 30 November 2016.