Caer en tentación (English: Fall Into Temptation) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Giselle González for Televisa. It is a remake of the 2017 Argentine telenovela Amar después de amar, created by Erika Halvorsen and Gonzalo Demaría. The series stars Silvia Navarro, Gabriel Soto, Adriana Louvier, and Carlos Ferro. It aired on Las Estrellas from 18 September 2017 to 11 February 2018. In the United States, it aired on Univision from 16 October 2017 to 2 March 2018.
Caer en tentación won ten awards out of 18 nominations at the Premios TVyNovelas 2018, including the Best Telenovela of the Year, Best Cast, Best Original Story or Adaptation, Best Direction, and Best Co-lead Actor for Carlos Ferro. The theme song "Saturno" performed by Pablo Alborán also won the award for Best Musical Theme.
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Plot
Caer en tentación is a thrilling story of two families marked by a tragedy that discovers the infidelity between two married couples. The story is told in two different timelines: the past (pasado) and the present (época actual).
Raquel and Damián Becker are a wealthy and happy couple with two children, Mía and Fede. Destiny leads Damián to meet Carolina and feel an undeniable attraction towards her. Damián did not know that Carolina is already married to Santiago Álvarado, a construction architect with whom she has two children, Nico and Lola. When Raquel drops off her son Fede at school, she accidentally backs her car to Santiago's truck, and they realize that their sons know each other. Raquel volunteers to pay for the damages but Santiago refuses. Raquel insists and visits the Álvarado family's house alongside Damián. The two couples become great friends, but the forbidden love between Damián and Carolina is stronger than their marriage commitment and both decide to deceive to their spouses. One night, Damián and Carolina have a terrible car accident at the forest. Rescuers only find a seriously injured Damián, and Carolina has mysteriously disappeared from the scene. During the investigation by the police, Raquel and Santiago learns that their spouses are lovers.
Cast
Main
Silvia Navarro as Raquel Cohen Nasser de Becker
Gabriel Soto as Damián Becker Franco
Adriana Louvier as Carolina Rivas Trejo de Álvarado
Dalexa Meneses as young Carolina
Carlos Ferro as Santiago Álvarado Flores
Arath de la Torre as Andrés Becker Acher
Julieta Egurrola as Miriam Franco de Becker
Beatriz Moreno as Jovita
Ela Velden as Mía Becker Cohen
Julia Urbini as Dolores "Lola" Álvarado Rivas
Luz Ramos as Laura García Jiménez de Godoy
Carlos Valencia as Vicente Rivas Trejo
Daney Mendoza as young Vicente
Enoc Leaño as Rodolfo Rueda
Irineo Álvarez as Antonio Ibáñez Lara
Adalberto Parra as Ignacio "Nacho" Galindo
Luis Fernando Peña as Agustín Chávez
Ana Ciocchetti as Azucena
Jorge Luis Vázquez as Fernando Godoy Alba
Germán Bracco as Federico "Fede" Becker Cohen
José Manuel Rincón as Nicolas "Nico" Álvarado Rivas
Recurring and guest stars
Moisés Arizmendi as Christian
Liz Gallardo as Gabriela Izaguirre
Monserrat Marañón as Lisa Ávalos
Jorge de los Reyes as Rafael Estrada
Alicia Jaziz as Florencia Chávez
Ignacio Tahhan as Miguel Villegas
Xabiani Ponce de León as Joaquín
Dayren Chávez as Luz
Jerry Velázquez as Dany
Luisa Rubino as Patricia Vargas
Alejandro de Hoyos Parera as Sammy Rueda
Arturo Carmona as Leonardo
Fernando Robles as Zaldívar
Dettmar Yáñez as Blas Garrido
Production
Production began in May 2017 under the working titles Nadie más en el mundo
and Pasiones ocultas. Filming of the telenovela began on July 3, 2017, with Caer en tentación confirmed as the official title. Filming concluded in January 2018.
Reception
Critical reception
Writing for Milenio, Álvaro Cueva praised Caer en tentación as a masterpiece for its storytelling, production and acting performances of the entire cast, He states that "this isn't your typical story. It's a plot that questions love, desire, fidelity, and even the very value of family. As if that weren't enough, this story—which is powerful, dangerous, and controversial—is told in two different time periods in every episode." Cueva also lauded the finale episode and wrote, "Caer en tentación is not only fabulous for having kept us glued to the television for so long looking at such a complex issue. It's fabulous for its extremely high level of ethical, artistic and editorial consistency."