Física o Química is a Spanish drama television series produced by Ida y Vuelta Producciones for Antena 3 that was originally broadcast from 4 February 2008 to 13 June 2011. In this series they talked about topics such as: drug abuse, suicide, racism, domestic violence, rape, sex, virginity, pregnancy, homosexuality, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, cheating, forced marriage, same-sex marriage, adoption, cancer, lack of self-confidence, death, homophobia, xenophobia, prostitution, unprotected sex and forbidden love. A reunion miniseries titled Física o Química: El reencuentro premiered on 27 December 2020 on Atresplayer Premium.

Synopsis

A group of novice teachers begin to teach at an institute, the Zurbarán. Students seek their place in the world. Who said that teaching was easy? The series revolves around the world of teaching. The novelty is given by the point of view: the viewer sees through the eyes of some novice teachers, young individuals, newcomers to a secondary school and their fears, doubts and fears before their new work as educators. The arrival of these teachers will reveal to us a whole universe of conflicts, loves, heartbreaks, illusions and hopes of a group of boys and girls and the people around them.

Cast

Students

Zurbarán School staff

Olimpia Díaz Centeno (Ana Milán) She is the English teacher. She is very hard on students and has no sympathy with them or with too many teachers for being too inflexible at times. At the beginning of the series she is married to Félix, but the marriage separates when she cheats on him with Roque and becomes pregnant without knowing from whom. She takes Clara out of the school management and she is the principal until Martín arrives. When her son, Darío, was born, her relationship with Roque had already ended. She performs paternity tests on Darío, and the baby's father turns out to be Félix. Later she has a short relationship with David's father, not knowing that he was still married. She has a relationship with Martín, with whom she bought a house. After her relationship with Martín. She begins a relationship, not very serious, with Vaquero. She likes Enrique, but the relationship stops when she discovers that he wants to sell the school. (seasons 1–7)

Recurring characters

Guest stars and cameos

Deceased characters

Scenarios

Zurbarán High School

HS is where most of the drama takes part. The rooms, the cafeteria, the library, the hallways, the elevator, the teachers' room, the bathrooms... The building becomes the scenario for most of the interactions among students and teachers.

Teachers' house

The home of Irene (Blanca Romero) and Blanca (Cecilia Freire) is a flat always occupied by other teachers such as Miguel, (Michel Brown), Violeta (Irene Sánchez), or Irene's nephew. After this last one left, the free room was taken by Vaquero (Marc Clotet), who stays in the flat after Irene and Blanca finally leave. Later on, Vaquero rents the free rooms Verónica (Olivia Molina) and Jorge (Sergio Mur). Because of the constant flirting going on between these two, Vaquero decides to leave the flat, to the couple, but after they break up, Jorge leaves too. Currently the flat is shared by Verónica (Olivia Molina), Sara (Sabrina Garciarena) and Xavi (Juan Pablo Di Pace).

Other scenarios

The students' houses, restaurants and even the street are also scenarios used in this TV show.

Episodes

Season 1 (2008)

Season 2 (2008)

Season 3 (2009)

Season 4 (2009)

Season 5 (2010)

Season 6 (2010)

Season 7 (2011)

Broadcasters

Reunion

A two-episode reunion miniseries, Física o Química: El reencuentro, starring Andrea Duro, Maxi Iglesias, Gonzalo Ramos, Angy Fernández, Adam Jezierski, Javier Calvo, Adrián Rodríguez, Sandra Blázquez, Ana Milán, Marc Clotet, Leonor Martín, Andrés Cheung, Álex Barahona, Blanca Romero and José Lamuño, premiered on 27 December 2020 on streaming platform Atresplayer Premium.