Patito Feo



Patito Feo (in English, "Ugly Duckling") is a 2007-2008 teen drama from Argentina, based, as you can imagine, on the The Ugly Duckling tale.

The main character is Patricia Castro, known by the diminutive of the name Patricia, "Patito" ("duckling", and yes, she's the one ugly but with a hearth of gold). She lives in Bariloche, a city in the very south of Argentina, with her mother Carmen, and once fell in love with Matías, a guy from Buenos Aires, who visited the city.

Some time later, the family moves to Buenos Aires; there, they meet Patito's father Leandro, but are were unaware of this, since Carmen tried to avoid him. Patito then enrols in a school of arts... where Matías also attendes. Problem is, Matías has a girlfriend, Antonella, the leader of a group of beautiful but mean girls. And Antonella's mother Bianca is Leandro's girlfriend, and tries to preent him from getting near Carmen.

Needless to say, the happy family.

Note: As said, this must not be confused with the tale The Ugly Duckling

"Patito Feo" includes examples of:

 * Adults Are Useless
 * Alpha Bitch: Antonella
 * Beautiful All Along: happened a couple of times.
 * Breakout Character: Antonella.
 * Broken Aesop: If Antonella, the beatiful and mean girl, turns out to be the favourite of the public, and the writers choose instead to write about her, the whole "ugly duckling" tale and aesop is lost.
 * Freaky Friday Flip: Between Patito and Antonella, at the beginning of the second season.
 * High School Rocks: A high school teen drama, where we never see the characters in an actual classroom learning anything? Music class and spare time, and that's all? Who wouldn't want to go to that High School, even if Antonella was in it?
 * Uptown Girl: Patito and Carmen