The ‘HIT’ series started its journey in The 1 as a vibrant high school thriller to then place more emphasis on the pedagogical side when addressing thorny issues related to Spanish youth. The final result of the first batch of episodes was not round, but it was stimulating enough to leave you wanting more.
There was always the question of whether the new students whose path the character played by Daniel Grao they would manage to catch our attention or else they would cease to be a kind of repetition of what has already been seen previously. It is still early to draw conclusions, but ‘HIT’ seems to bet on its second season to increase the intensity to make it clear that the new challenge of its protagonist is going to be even more complicated.
A more harmful climate
In the second season of ‘HIT’ we change Madrid for Puertollano, thus looking for a certain contrast. Not so much as to talk about a leap from urban to rural, but leaving behind the place that encompasses the greatest job opportunities in our country serves to create a different climate in the series. It is no longer just about troublesome teens here, there is something else.
In fact, HIT finds itself in that new reality as soon as it gets there, which feeds a feeling of hopelessness which then extends to a greater or lesser extent to all the characters that cross his path. It is true that there the series once again sinned from being somewhat schematic in its approaches, as if they are more interested in highlighting specific problems than developing them with some care, being more effective than effective at various times.
Nevertheless, that’s something that could already be said about the first season, so it does not catch us again. In addition, the scenario presented lends itself more to that relative tendency to excess, since part of the population is up in arms due to a labor issue. Such is the case that the protagonist has no choice but to resort to external support to the area so that something similar to a halo of hope can really exist.
Fortunately, the series created by Joaquin Oristrell Nor does he make the mistake of turning Puertollano into an unbreathable place, since he prefers to use it to influence that it is a much more entrenched problem than a group of adolescents who do not fit in with the rest. It is as if it were a virus and thinking about the possibility of a vaccine seems unrealistic.
The same without being a mere repetition
That does not take away so that there will be highly personalized dramas, with several teenagers exhibiting a gallery of complementary problems. For now it has been the letter of introduction, and in some cases little more than that has been possible in the hour that the first episode of the second season lasts, and from here on you have to build, with the other promise that everything sooner rather than later it will lead to a great dramatic outburst.
Another consequence of this is that the younger part of the cast has not had many opportunities to be memorable either. I don’t think anyone is going to be at a level comparable to that of Carmen Arrufat in the first season, which is greatly missed, but the average level is, at least for now, equivalent. In exchange for the signing of Marta Larralde It is a success, since the construction of her character also sins from that schematic that I mentioned before, but she fills in what is missing in the script and transmits a lot of conviction to her character.
However, the great star of the show is still a very comfortable Daniel Grao as Hugo Ibarra Toledo. It already took very little to get the point from HIT in the first season and here he knows how to adapt to the situation by showing, respecting signs of identity but without falling into mere repetition.
In short
‘HIT’ is still a recognizable series. In case the first season conquered you, I see no reason why the same cannot happen with the second, where the seeds that have been planted work well enough that it can flower in later episodes.