The teacher at the centre of the taboo.
Telemundo's getting scandalous for winter by delivering a taboo new novela once
The Son I Never Knew ends in June.
Dangerous Affairs (Relaciones Peligrosas) premieres on Monday, 12 June at 17h10 and it's set at a high school, with a bell that shrieks with the relationships of those who walk the corridors.
The students, the teachers and the parents are part of the drama with a secret affair at the centre of their world: an affair between a teacher and a student who's 10 years younger than her and underage.
Thankfully the dude who plays him - Venezuelan actor and singer Gabriel Coronel - looks as if he's at university so this should help ease the cringe factor that would arise if he didn't.
The series is set at a bilingual, multicultural performing arts high school in Miami called Cervantes Academy School of Arts and it tackles class, race, taboo sexual relationships and issues that face LGBT teens.
It centres round a young teacher Mirana Cruz, played by Sandra Echeverría, who we most recently saw on the US version of The Bridge. One of her students Mauricio (Gabriel Coronel) comes to her rescue and it sparks a relationship between them that turns into an affair.
This is a biggo problemo for everyone of course, which has Dangerous Consequences.
Things take a similar turn for other characters too, most notably Alejandro “Ale” Portillo (played by Puerto Rican actor Kevin Aponte) who gets targeted for being gay.
The GLAAD website published
a review of the show when it first aired in the US, which calls the novela "Groundbreaking" for the way it deals with LGBT issues, specifically through the character of Ale.
Here's an extract from it:
Sensible, resilient, and compassionate, Ale is a frequent target of bullying along with black Haitian-Dominican classmate Cassius. But rather than being presented exclusively as one of hardships, Ale’s life is presented as having the potential for triumph and empowerment.
In a recent episode, he confronted a bully after attempting to take his own life, telling him “I’m gay, and I want to thank you. You are the best thing that ever happened to me. I don’t have to live my life in hiding, scared, silent,” which was prefaced by a reference to Jamey Rodemeyer, the real-life 14-year-old openly bisexual teenager who died by suicide last year.
Here's a first look at some of the scenes between Miranda and Mauricio - as you'll see, Mauricio is
very hot for teacher:
Here's a link to the first teasers for it:
Dangerous Affairs Teasers - June 2017