Graduados (Colombian TV series)
Graduados is a 2013 Colombian telenovela, a remake of the Argentine telenovela "Graduados". It starred Luis Fernando Hoyos, Kathy Sáenz, Jorge Enrique Abello, Santiago Moure, Zharick León and Diana Ángel. Plot. The first episode takes place in a graduation night, in 1993. María Laura Vallejo (Kathy Saenz), the girlfriend of the school bully Pablo Urrutia (Jorge Enrique Abello), left him when he cheated on her. Andrés Torres (Luis Fernando Hoyos) drives her out of the school premises and had sex with her. She got pregnant, and got married with Pablo, as she thought that he was  the father of her boy. After a time skip of 20 years, Andrés meets María Laura again, and they discover that her son Martín (Juan Pablo Urrego) was actually the son of Andrés and not Pablo. Reception. The original telenovela "Graduados" was a huge success in Argentina, so RCN Televisión bought the rights to make a Colombian remake, expecting a similar success. However, the series had a poor reception. Ómar Rincon, from the newspaper "El Tiempo", attributed it to the poor actor performances, a failure to capture the feeling of the eighties, plot references to the Argentine society which were  not properly modified to reference the Colombian one, and a failure to use the music as a plot element, rather than as a mere background. The Colombian writer Cecilia Percy pointed as well that there are few previous attempts in Colombia to produce remakes, and that they usually generated poor received works even when the original one was a success.