Series Mania-Showcased ‘The Age of Anger’ Probes Teenage Dogma

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Holly Jones Featured in the Spanish showcase at Series Mania, “Age Of Anger” (“La edad de la ira”) has the potential to grab viewers from all demographics as it tackles the fractured and complex inner workings of teenagers coming to terms with their complexities, amidst the investigation of a close-to-home homicide.Produced and distributed internationally via Atresmedia TV and The Mediapro Studio, the series follows its protagonists as they negotiate the terms of their budding and unconditional relationship, one that toes the line between steadfast friendship and romance.

Palpable rapport is felt between the characters as they traverse the classroom, where they’re provoked to unravel moral quandaries by a passionate professor and an extracurricular film studies group.

Shaped by lauded playwright and series writer Lucía Carballal (“Locked Up”), the characters boast immense depth as audiences are privy to their vulnerabilities, naivety, and maturity.

Dealing with traumas larger than themselves, they unveil nuanced takes on age-old tropes, solving problems with grace and folly.“The key to ‘The Age of Anger’ is that it tries to approach adolescence without condescension, that’s why we find complex characters, because adolescents are much more complex than what we usually see in many high-school series,” remarks Montse García, director of fiction at Atresmedia TV and executive producer of the show.“This series portrays their fears, their insecurities, their doubts, their anger.