Emiliano Granada Taking off from one of Spain’s most successful series during the century’s first decade, “The Boarding School: Black Lagoon,” the new second season of its reboot, “The Boarding School: Las Cumbres,” has dropped in its entirety on Prime Video, confirming the new series’ own identity and voice.
It’s a reboot that has taken on a life of its own.Born out of the collaboration between Prime Video, The Mediapro Studio and Buendía Estudios – whose co-founder, broadcast network group Atresmedia, owned the original IP – the second season answers many of the questions left by the first while opening new mysteries that could lead to a potential third.It follows a group of students who start investigating their own school after a series of gruesome murders.
Slowly, a densely layered lore starts to unfold to both students and audience, a mythology that is deepened in this season by creators Asier Andueza and Laura Belloso.
Variety talked with the series’ executive producers – The Mediapro Studio’s Javier Pons, Buendía Estudios’ Sonia Martínez and Prime Video’s Ricardo Cabornero – on what marks the studios’ first collaboration.This collaboration between the three studios seems to be one of the key ways to make a series stand out, not only in terms of production values but also in access to talent and distribution.
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