Maestro in Blue

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Maestro in Blue
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Genre
Created by Christoforos Papakaliatis
Written byChristopher Papakaliatis
Directed byChristopher Papakaliatis Akis Polizos
Starring
  • Christopher Papakaliatis
  • Klelia Andriolatou
Country of origin Greece
Original language Greek
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes19
Production
Executive producer
  • Stelios Cotionis
ProducerGiorgos Moshovitis
Production location Greece
Camera setup Single-camera
Production company Foss Productions
Original release
Network Mega Channel
Release13 October 2022 (2022-10-13) 
present (present)

Maestro in Blue (also known as Maestro in Greece) is a Greek drama television series airing on Mega Channel in Greece and through Netflix worldwide. The series consists of three seasons with a total of 19 episodes.

Contents

Synopsis

Orestis, a troubled musician, travels to the Greek island of Paxos to direct a revival of the local music festival. There he meets Klelia, an ambitious 19-year-old woman who wants to study music in Athens. A murder takes place which will change the plans.

Cast

Main characters

Episodes

Seasons

SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
Season premiereSeason finale
1913 October 202215 December 2022
2616 May 202420 June 2024
342 December 20242024

Season 1

EpisodeTitleDescriptionDurationOriginal release date
1"Clair De Lune"Orestis is a musician and arrives at Paxos to organize the island's music festival. There he will meet the whole small society. His meeting with young Klelia will be the occasion, to find himself involved in extreme situations.51m13 October 2022
2"Denial"Orestis discovers that the life of the island's inhabitants is not what it seems. He develops a personal relationship with them and discovers dark secrets about each one. He takes a stand against the violence that Maria and Spyros receive.51m20 October 2022
3"Prayer"Preparations for the music festival are progressing. The illegal activities of Fanis and Charalambos are revealed to their children and conflict is inevitable. Haris parallels the love of Klelia and Orestis with her own lost love.59m3 November 2022
4"The Great Chimera"The domestic violence from Charalambos to Maria will trigger new developments on the island. Orestis and Klelia find themselves in Corfu for a while, and there they get even closer. Orestis doesn't know how to manage his love for her.55m10 November 2022
5"The Family"Fanis prepares for his election campaign, continues the illegal activities with Charalambos and tries to keep his family together. He learns about Orestis's relationship with Klelia and invites him to the house in order to discover the truth.54m17 November 2022
6"Musical Chairs"Alexandra arrives in the small island, and her relationship with Orestis is divulged. Orestis feels uncomfortable and Klelia is broken by Alexandra's appearance. However, things are different and Orestis's past is revealed.60m24 November 2022
7"An Uninstructed Sinks"Spyros and Antonis visit Athens secretly. Orestis cannot express his feelings to Klelia while Alexandra makes things worse.55m1 December 2022
8"Autoimmune"Alexandra's pregnancy leads to an impasse for Orestis who has now accepted his love for Klelia. Charalambos removes Maria and Spyros from the festival. Maria discovers something about her husband that pushes her to her limits.55m8 December 2022
9"Love Me Do"The music festival begins. The whole island is flooded with music. At the same time, the developments in the lives of the heroes are rapid and the murder of Charalambos is decisive.73m15 December 2022

Production

The island Paxos where most of the filming took place. DSC03245 O elios khrusizei tous Paxous.jpg
The island Paxos where most of the filming took place.

The series was written by Christoforos Papakaliatis and directed by him together with Akis Polizos. [2] [3] [4] [5] Casting for the series began in 2020 in Athens, while the overall production of the series lasted two years. Filming began in July 2021 and ended in February 2022, taking place in Paxos, Corfu and Athens. The filming of the second season is expected to begin in the spring of 2023.

The series was the second most expensive series per episode on the Mega Channel, with a budget of eligible expenses of €2,318,570, while each episode of the series cost €257,618. A few days before the official premiere of the series, a special screening of the first episode was organized for actors, contributors and journalists at the Benaki Museum. [6] [7]

Release

The series premiered on Greek television from Mega Channel under the title Maestro on 13 October 2022, and the first season ended on 15 December with nine episodes. [8] [9] In November, Papakaliatis announced that the series had been renewed for a second season. [10]

On 11 November 2022, the global subscription platform Netflix acquired the rights to the series. It then became available on the platform on 17 March 2023 under the title Maestro in Blue, making it the first Greek television series to viewed from the platform. [11] [12] [13]

Reception

Reviewing the series for the Greek audience Lifo's Alexandros Diakosavvas wrote "Maestro's achieves, already from its first 45 minutes, the sense of discomfort of the closed place, of the small Greek society, the impossibility of escape that foreshadows a violent outbreak." [14] Vasiliki Geronikou of Athinorama mentions that "the script simultaneously approaches many difficult themes (love with a large age difference, homophobia, domestic violence, etc.), risking not finding the space they need to develop equally properly and in depth." [15] Klelia Fatourou reviewing for Jenny.gr praised the aesthetics, the photography and the direction but called the series outdated, criticizing the age gap between the leads and the «pick me» mentality of the leading female character. [16]

Following its release to Netflix on 17 March 2023, the show entered the global top 10 most-watch shows list. [17]

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