Rebelde


Rebelde was a Mexican teen drama and comedy telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa, broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas. and Univision in the USA. It was a remake of the 2002 Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way, created by Cris Morena. Rebelde originally aired from 4 October 2004 to 5 December 2006, being replaced with Las dos caras de Ana on 6 December. Univision aired Rebelde on weekdays afternoon at 3pm EST/ 2c starting on 21 March 2005 replacing Corazones al límite. El Gordo y La flaca would air after Rebelde at 4 pm EST/ 3 C
The show stars Anahí, Dulce María, Alfonso Herrera, Christian Chávez and Christopher von Uckermann, with Maite Perroni in her debut role. The adult protagonists are Juan Ferrara, and Ninel Conde starring in a stellar performance, with Enrique Rocha and Tony Dalton portraying the antagonists. Due to its school setting, the telenovela features an ensemble cast, including Angelique Boyer, Estefanía Villarreal, Karla Cossío, Zoraida Gómez, Jack Duarte, and Eddy Vilard. The first actors Hector Gómez and Lourdes Canale also appear in the show.
Rebelde is set in the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding school on the outskirts of Mexico City, with a major plot line revolving around six adolescent students forming a band. Additional subplots involve the school's faculty and the students' parents. One trademark of the telenovela is the random use of English words and phrases, often used by fresa characters as well as famous American Guest stars such as Gorillaz, Lenny Kravitz, and Hillary Duff to name a few.
Another notable aspect of the show is that the actors playing the band members are themselves in an actual group named RBD and perform most of the music used on the telenovela, including the title theme song, "Rebelde". The group achieved international success from 2004 until their separation in 2009 and sold over 15 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling Latin music acts of all time.
In 2021, Netflix announced a reboot of the show, set for release the following year. The series, also titled Rebelde, was released on 5 January 2022, and is set 16 years after the end of the show.

Plot

The Elite Way School is a private boarding school with international prestige where high-class students receive a high level of education to be prepared for a great future. The school has a scholarship program for people with low financial resources who have an excellent academic level. However, few even graduate since they are persecuted by a secret society called "La Logia", whose purpose is to conserve the purity of the privileged class. Among the students are Mía Colucci Cáceres, Roberta Pardo Rey, Miguel Arango Cervera, Diego Bustamante, Guadalupe "Lupita" Fernández and Giovanni Méndez López. Six adolescents who, despite their differences, discover something that will unite them above all – their love for music.

Cast

Starring

Also starring

Recurring

Special guest stars

Elite Way School uniforms

Casual

Both girls and boys wear red sport jackets with matching ties, and long-sleeved white dress-shirts. Boys wear blue jeans and black dress-shoes with their jackets and shirts, while girls wear blue denim miniskirts and black knee-boots. Moreover, girls often untuck and tie up their white dress-shirts, exposing their midriff. Girls also wear regulation underwear: full-cut black briefs with matching sport-bras, as demonstrated by Mia in the series' pilot. In the last season, girls wear denim blue skirts with blue knee boots.

Alternate casual

In later seasons, some girls wear a different ensemble with their white dress-shirts: ochre plaid miniskirts and brown sport jackets, with black Mary Janes and white knee-socks.

Formal

Both girls and boys wear black sport jackets with matching ties, and long-sleeved blue dress-shirts. Boys wear black dress-slacks with matching dress-shoes, while girls wear dressy black miniskirts with matching knee-boots. Girls rarely tie up their formal dress-shirts.

RBD

One of the topics that marked the success of the telenovela was the formation of a group named RBD. The production of the series conceived the idea of the musical group to promote both the characters and the show itself. The project quickly surpassed the telenovela in success, so much so that it can now be considered as a separate concept. The series was a great promotion for the group since it was able to reach all of Latin America, United States, and several European nations. The group is one of the most impressive in the Latin pop genre and has had great success in Hispanic countries, the U.S. and even Brazil, where the telenovela and the group were highly successful. The show's success was so great that during the third season, the producers decided to lengthen the time of the episodes to one hour and a half, being the first telenovela with such duration.

Main songs