El Internado
Spanish television series
El Internado (The Boarding School), also known as El Internado: Laguna Negra (The Black Lagoon Boarding School) is a Spanish mystery drama thriller television series produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Antena 3. The series was originally broadcast in Spain from 24 May 2007 to 13 October 2010. The series began airing on Netflix on 15 July 2015, and it stopped airing on 20 December 2017. Then, the series was reaired on 16 October 2018.
A reboot series, El Internado: Las Cumbres, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 19 February 2021.
Synopsis
First season
Marcos Novoa Pazos (Martiño Rivas) and Paula Novoa Pazos (Carlota García), two Galician siblings whose parents have disappeared on the high seas, go to El Internado: Laguna Negra under the custody and guardianship of the director, Héctor de la Vega (Luis Merlo).
María Almagro (Marta Torné) is also new, entering as a cleaner. Alfonso Ceballos Parra (Francisco Merino) trusts Victoria Martínez González (Elena Furiase) and Carolina Leal de Solis (Ana de Armas) to tell them a secret: boarding school is dangerous and they have to get out of there. To do this, he meets them at night in the cemetery near the building. The girls tell Iván Noiret León (Yon González), Roque Sánchez Navas (Daniel Retuerta), Cayetano Montero Ruiz (Fernando Tielve) and Marcos, who go to meet Alfonso, but he ends up not being there.
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