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XY The Magazine

2009–2012 · 3 seasons

A talky, thoughtful workplace drama that quietly picks apart machismo, letting private contradictions simmer beneath glossy magazine pages.

Created by
Emilio Maillé
Genres
Drama
Starring
Juan Carlos Barreto, Javier Díaz Dueñas, Eduardo Arroyuelo
Tagline
What do you have to do to be a man?
Overview
All the drama inside a men's magazine in Mexico City. A magazine whose contents show masculintiy in all its manifestations, and where the protagonists find themselves in conflict between what they promote at work and what they face in their private lives.

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Created by
Emilio Maillé
Genres
Drama
Starring
Juan Carlos Barreto, Javier Díaz Dueñas, Eduardo Arroyuelo
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • gender
  • work
  • family
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Emilio Maillé
Starring
Juan Carlos Barreto, Javier Díaz Dueñas, Eduardo Arroyuelo, José María Torre, Claudio Lafarga, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Sophie Alexander-Katz
Length
3 seasons, 33 episodes, 50 min each
Network
Canal Once
Country
Mexico
Languages
Spanish

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