Lotería del crimen
Lotería del crimen (Crime Lottery) is a Mexican thriller detective drama television series produced by Adrián Ortega Echegollén and Rodrigo Hernández Cruz for TV Azteca in 2022.[1][2] The series centers on a group of detectives attached to a police intelligence unit where they have to solve clues to find the criminals.[3] The series premiered on Azteca 7 on 10 October 2022.[4][5]
Lotería del crimen | |
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Genre | |
Created by | Adrián Ortega Echegollén |
Directed by | Carlos Carrera |
Creative director | Adrián Ortega Echegollén |
Starring | |
Country of origin | Mexico |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Rodrigo Hernández Cruz |
Producers |
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Production location | Mexico City |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 46 Minutes |
Production company | TV Azteca |
Release | |
Original network | Azteca 7 |
Original release | 10 October 2022 – present |
It stars Claudio Lafarga as Bruno Barraza and Julieta Grajales as Victoria Vargas, along with an ensemble cast.[6]
In January 2023, the series was renewed for a second season that is set to premiere on 6 November 2023.[7][8]
Plot
Police detectives Bruno Barraza and Victoria Vargas, belonging to the UNIC (Unidad de Inteligencia Criminal; i.e: Criminal Intelligence Unit), try to uncover several murderers who are still on the loose in Mexico City and continue to commit more murders, and whom they must arrest.
Cast
- Claudio Lafarga as Bruno Barraza[9]
- Julieta Grajales as Victoria Vargas[9]
- Arnoldo Picazzo as Elogio Enciso[9]
- Francisco Vázquez as Ricardo Romero "El Recio"[9]
- Tamara Niño de Rivera as Sofía Salabeth[9]
- Lupita Sandoval as Marieta "Mari" Martínez[9]
- Jerry Velázquez as Jonathan Yáñez[9]
- Jorge Fink as Tito Tavares[9]
- Tatiana del Real as Luisa López[9]
- Angélica Lara as Nancy Delfina[9]
- Sara Maldonado as Ariel Aragón (season 2)[10]
Production
On 2 February 2022, Sandra Smester, then vice president of Azteca Uno and general director of content and distribution of TV Azteca, announced in an interview the new programming for the main channels of said broadcaster, which included Lotería del crimen as one of the fiction productions.[11][12] The production of the series began filming on 27 June 2022.[13] The stage direction and cameras are in charge of filmmaker Carlos Carrera and the photography is in charge of Ricardo Garfias.[14] The first season has 24 episodes contemplated for broadcast.[15]
On 18 January 2023, TV Azteca renewed the series for a second season.[7] In February 2023, Sara Maldonado joined the cast as a new main character, Ariel Aragón, for the second season.[16][10] Production of the season began in May 2023.[17]
Ratings
Season | Timeslot (CT) | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | Avg. viewers (millions) | ||
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Date | Viewers (millions) |
Date | Viewers (millions) | ||||
1 | Mon–Thurs 10:30 p.m. | 24 | 10 October 2022 | 0.48[18] | 17 November 2022 | 0.79[19] | TBD |
2 | Mon–Thurs 9:30 p.m.[8] | TBA | 6 November 2023[8] | TBD | TBA | TBD | TBD |
Episodes
No. | Title | Original air date | Mexico viewers (millions) | |
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1 | "El Brujo" | 10 October 2022 | 0.48[18] | |
A couple while fighting in their car, crash their car against a pillar in the parking lot, and discover a corpse, the case remains in the hands of the UNIC agents who will try to discover the facts of the crime committed, who after a long search find someone important in construction who sacrifices workers so that the construction remains standing in the face of any earthquake or any other disaster | ||||
2 | "El Huérfano" | 11 October 2022 | 0.57[20] | |
In a theater, an actress is murdered and the UNIC agents have to investigate the events as they happened to decipher the murderer of this actress, who after hard work discover that the murderer was one of the cleaning women of the theater, who reveals the identity of the other murderer | ||||
3 | "El Fotógrafo" | 12 October 2022 | 0.69[21] | |
After the fall of a young woman from the rooftop of a residential building in the presence of two people, Salabeth has to discover with the help of Victoria and Bruno they try to discover someone who turns out to be a photographer who has taken photos of different young womans and who turns out that said suicide was nothing more than the kidnapping treatment by this photographer | ||||
4 | "El Matraquero" | 13 October 2022 | 0.56[22] | |
In a hotel a suitcase is found with a corpse, which has signs of having been tortured to death, Bruno and Victoria have to discover who the murderer is since another similar case had occurred in another hotel, after having interrogated several possible suspects, find him about to murder someone else and arrest him in time | ||||
5 | "La Tóxica" | 17 October 2022 | 0.57[23] | |
A young man enters into the UNIC police station and reveals that he murdered his mother and grandmother, when questioning him he does not reveal anything and only remains silent, they also interrogate a girl who does not reveal anything about the boy, over time he boy reveals that the girl is the murderer and they manage to catch her in time to poison someone else | ||||
6 | "Los Enamorados" | 18 October 2022 | 0.55[24] | |
Some children discover a pointed foot, Bruno and Victoria discover an offering in a park and interrogate a crazy homeless man who reveals that they always bring offerings to the altar, after thinking of several suspects, they interrogate a store owner who reveals the strange way of acting of a couple, after having them suspicious, they manage to capture them, and it turns out that they cooked their victims | ||||
7 | "El Tatuador" | 19 October 2022 | 0.78[25] | |
The owner of a dog is found hanging from a dog rope, after finding other victims over time, these are signed with different names with a pen, after thinking of a few suspects, Tito Tavares' wife gives him a dog but he cannot take care of him and after he escaped and went for him and took him to the vet, he asked him to take care of him, Tito is captured by the vet who before killing him, the vet is captured and arrested | ||||
8 | "El Ejecutivo" | 20 October 2022 | 0.64[26] | |
In a abandoned warehouses inhabited by homeless people, the cremated corpse is found with 1,000 pesos, first it is thought that it was made by one of the homeless to steal the money, after questioning one of them he reveals that someone gives them an amount based on no matter how much his body resists, a homeless friend of Yeye's before ending the same, they manage to arrest the murderer who wears an executive suit | ||||
9 | "La Casera" | 24 October 2022 | 0.54[27] | |
In a nursing home a woman dies in unknown circumstances, the granddaughter blames the landlady for her grandmother's death even though there is no evidence about her, after questioning the landlady and the elderly, says one of the elderly about the mistreatment of the landlady, and later when the landlady tries to kill one of the old women, she is arrested in time | ||||
10 | "Las Cortadoras" | 25 October 2022 | 0.61[28] | |
In a cinema a man was scratched his cheek by an industrial cutter, after questioning the different victims they reveal that it is a teenager who does that to them, some time later they discover a dead man in the same conditions and they discover that it is not only the girl , at the time of capturing her it turns out that she and her mother are the murderers | ||||
11 | "La Vendedora" | 26 October 2022 | 0.70[29] | |
After a party, a couple of influencers discover the loss of their baby, this is reported to the UNIC who at first are thought to be the same couple who lost the child, after questioning them twice due to suspicions, at the beginning it was not them, Over time they discover that it is the pediatrician who helped them have the baby, she is arrested and they also recover the baby and return it to its parents | ||||
12 | "El Astrólogo" | 27 October 2022 | 0.83[30] | |
Some girls while playing soccer and going back for the ball find a corpse of a young man, they start questioning the boy's girlfriend who tells them about an expert in horoscopes who does not collaborate in anything, then they discover another corpse in the same conditions and he thinks he is the horoscopist and when they try to catch him and he is caught trying to rob some guy | ||||
13 | "La Ciudadora" | 31 October 2022 | 0.62[31] | |
Some parents adopt a child and when they take him to the minivan he finds himself lifeless, first it is thought that it is witchcraft made by one of the orphan girls of the orphanage, but over time he begins to think that she is the owner of the orphanage and which over time they find enough evidence and before they kill the girl, they manage to arrest her | ||||
14 | "La Tintorera" | 1 November 2022 | 0.56[32] | |
A young man accidentally runs over a young woman crossing the street, while the UNIC detectives are busy filling out forms Victoria and Bruno look for the possible murderer who already had two identical victims, after questioning the young man and the owner of a dry cleaner, Victoria she thinks it is the same dyer and after possible evidence she is arrested about to murder a young indigenous woman | ||||
15 | "Los Goteros" | 2 November 2022 | 0.56[33] | |
A young cleaning worker returns to his room and finds that his roommate with no vital signs and no intestines, is first thought to be his same roommate even though he is discarded and in reality it is a doctor and a waitress who are arrested, at the moment to interrogate him they self-poison themselves with cyanide | ||||
16 | "La Niña" | 3 November 2022 | 0.69[34] | |
A cleaning woman dies poisoned, among them there are several suspects including the owner of the home who has a daughter who does not speak much, after having presented some "suspect" to confess, it is not really her and when they call the lady owner of the house to close the case and when they try to escape, who in the end the murderer turns out to be nothing more and nothing less than the girl | ||||
17 | "La Actriz" | 7 November 2022 | 0.82[35] | |
After the death of a young woman who was chosen for the main role in a telenovela, it is discovered that the water to lose weight that she drank had chlorine which was the cause of her death, first it is thought that it was someone who organized the acting functions , but in reality she is one of the young women who modified the water, and when she wins the role they "interview" her but when she tries to escape they manage to arrest her | ||||
18 | "El Músico" | 8 November 2022 | 0.74[36] | |
An American dies in the Plaza del Mariachi with a dart containing snake venom, the US Ambassador in Mexico gives the case to the UNIC, who try to catch the murderer who is initially thought to be the owner of a store near the plaza Due to his bad talk about Americans and foreigners, when they go to arrest, the murderer turns out to be the member of a mariachi who is arrested in time before murdering an American | ||||
19 | "El Técnico" | 9 November 2022 | 0.70[37] | |
After the death of a woman due to problems caused by the anesthesia put on during her angina surgery, Cap who was in the hospital, decides to help the person affected by the loss of his wife, it is discovered that different relatives of politicians have died in In the same way, it is discovered that someone manipulates the hospital machines, and before assassinating Cap, they manage to capture him | ||||
20 | "El Guapo" | 10 November 2022 | 0.68[38] | |
A young woman is found lifeless by her friend with a pig mask and her body bathed in butter, at first she thinks that it is her own friend who murders her, even though it is not like that after having questioned her several times, she revealed that her friend was shy, after long work she thinks of a young man and with the help of a horoscopist they manage to catch the murderer, who was the young man and who murdered for being fat-phobic | ||||
21 | "El Imitador" | 14 November 2022 | 0.75[39] | |
A couple finds the dismembered corpse of a woman, which is specifically that of a prostitute. The UNIC have to investigate the case in detail, after interrogating other prostitutes they reveal that several have died by order, after another prostitute was murdered, they realize that it is the same way Jack the Ripper did it in London, and they manage to capture him before murdering another prostitute | ||||
22 | "El Maquillista" | 15 November 2022 | 0.98[40] | |
The desire for perfection has very mysterious paths, some, to try to please it, undergo surgery or resort to cosmetic products, others, however, use more drastic methods that could end the lives of thousands of innocent women, The sinister mind behind these crimes will be persecuted by the UNIC, but they must hurry because the human puzzle is advancing by leaps and bounds | ||||
23 | "La Picadora" | 16 November 2022 | 0.78[41] | |
Revenge can be a dish that is eaten cold, but when this revenge involves acts that threaten the lives of people, the UNIC agents will have to enter to arrest the person who is disobeying the law | ||||
24 | "El Alpinista" | 17 November 2022 | 0.79[19] | |
The murder of Victoria's parents has tormented her since she witnessed that fateful day, but since she found out that the Capitán was involved in that investigation, nightmares began to increase, so the entire UNIC sets out to reopen the case and discover the connections between those involved, but everyone will be at great risk if they are not careful enough |
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