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[[caption-width-right:350:The Chilean man of mystery himself. With lots of smoke.]]
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''"Nada hacía presagiar..."'''[[note]]"Nothing would foreshadow..."[[/note]]
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* BasedOnATrueStory: All of it.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Carlos Pinto as the narrator does this by appearing on screen OncePerEpisode, mainly before the intense scenes happen. This serves as a reminder to the audience that they're watching a dramatization and not the real thing.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Carlos Pinto as the narrator does this by appearing on screen OncePerEpisode, mainly before the intense scenes happen. This serves as a reminder to the audience that they're watching a dramatization and not the real thing. Some seasons enhance the effect by having Pinto popping out from unusual places.
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* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: The show has a unique way to make this disclaimer. Carlos Pinto, the host and narrator, appears OncePerEpisode on camera during a scene, usually before the murder, to break the illusion. Some seasons enhance the effect by having Pinto popping out from unusual places.
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* InheritanceMurder: The 2021 [[UnCanceled]] season starts with one of these; the story of the "cursed inheritance".
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* InheritanceMurder: The 2021 [[UnCanceled]] [[UnCanceled un-canceled]] season starts with one of these; the story of the "cursed inheritance".
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* BodyInABreadbox: One of the most commented cases, "El tambor" [[note]]"The Barrel"[[/note]] (Season 10, 2005), has its victims' bodies (the murderer's [[TilMurderDoUsPart ex-couple]] and [[OffingTheOffspring their 9 years old son]]) put in a barrel and covered with cement.
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* InheritanceMurder: The 2021 [[UnCanceled]] season starts with one of these; the story of the "cursed inheritance".
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''Mea culpa'' is a Chilean TrueCrime [[GenreAnthology Anthology]] television series broadcast by TVN, the public broadcaster of Chile, hosted by journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, first premiered in 1993. He recreates with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, even featuring interviews with the culprits themselves. All of this has earned him a large audience.
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''Mea culpa'' is a Chilean TrueCrime [[GenreAnthology Anthology]] television series broadcast by TVN, the public broadcaster of Chile, hosted by journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, first premiered in 1993. He recreates [[CrimeReconstruction recreates]] with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, even featuring interviews with the culprits themselves. All of this has earned him a large audience.
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* ArtEvolution: Quite expected for a [[LongRunners long-runner]]. [[AspectRatio It switched to HD]] for season 13 (2008-2009), and for season 14 (2021) runs on 24 frames per second.
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* CarriedByTheHost: At this point it is impossible to imagine ''Mea Culpa'' without Carlos Pinto. Chilean writer Pablo Simonetti even compares him to Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
* CrimeReconstruction: The main attraction.
* CrimeReconstruction: The main attraction.
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* OminousFog: Most of the intro has a jail hallway covered in this. It has become a [[MemeticMutation meme]] on Chile, commonly portraying the fog as following Carlos Pinto wherever he goes, even outside the show!
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''Mea culpa'' is a Chilean television series broadcast by TVN, the public broadcaster of Chile, hosted by journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, first premiered in 1993. He recreates with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, which, in its original broadcasts, earned him a large audience. The main music at the beginning of the program was composed by Edgardo Riquelme in 1993 who also composed certain themes used as incidental music in some chapters.
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''Mea culpa'' is a Chilean TrueCrime [[GenreAnthology Anthology]] television series broadcast by TVN, the public broadcaster of Chile, hosted by journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, first premiered in 1993. He recreates with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, which, in its original broadcasts, even featuring interviews with the culprits themselves. All of this has earned him a large audience. audience.
The main music at the beginning of the program was composed by Edgardo Riquelme in 1993 who also composed certain themes used as incidental music in some chapters.
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It has 14 seasons since 1993, with two hiatus (one from 1999 to 2003, and the longest one from 2009 to 2021), having a cult following over all these years by its fans.
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It has 14 seasons since 1993, with two hiatus (one from 1999 to 2003, and the longest one from 2009 to 2021), having a cult following over all these years by 2021). Currently airing its fans.
14th season, most of the previous episodes are available on TVN's [[https://www.youtube.com/c/TeleseriesyseriesTVN/featured YouTube channel for series and telenovelas]] and on [[https://www.tvnplay.cl TVN Play]].
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*TitlePlease: Notably, the intro for Season 14 (2021) doesn't display the show's logo (it does appear after the credits), instead going directly to the title of the episode. Given the iconicity of the show itself and its intro sequence, everyone in Chile ''knows'' this is ''Mea Culpa'', becoming one of the few shows in the country (if not the only one) that can get away with this.
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-> ''"I don't interview criminals, I interview people. I want to know what drives a person to commit a crime."''
-->-- '''Carlos Pinto''', host of ''Mea Culpa''.
-->-- '''Carlos Pinto''', host of ''Mea Culpa''.
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''Mea culpa'' is a Chilean television series broadcast by TVN, the public broadcaster of Chile, hosted by journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, first premiered in 1993. He recreates with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, which, in its original broadcasts, earned him a large audience. The main music at the beginning of the program was composed by Edgardo Riquelme in 1993 who also composed certain themes used as incidental music in some chapters.
Given its graphic dramatization of murders, rapes or other crimes that endanger human life, this series is exclusively for adults.
It has 14 seasons since 1993, with two hiatus (one from 1999 to 2003, and the longest one from 2009 to 2021), having a cult following over all these years by its fans.
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!! ''Mea Culpa'' contains examples of:
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While Carlos Pinto has been there narrating the stories, the first season of the show was presented in a studio by Cecilia Serrano (then one of the hosts of ''24 Horas'', the primetime news of TVN) and featured a table of experts analyzing the dramatization just shown. Since season 2 Pinto became the only host.
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''Mea culpa'' is a Chilean television series broadcast by TVN, the public broadcaster of Chile, hosted by journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, first premiered in 1993. He recreates with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, which, in its original broadcasts, earned him a large audience. The main music at the beginning of the program was composed by Edgardo Riquelme in 1993 who also composed certain themes used as incidental music in some chapters.
Given its graphic dramatization of murders, rapes or other crimes that endanger human life, this series is exclusively for adults.
It has 14 seasons since 1993, with two hiatus (one from 1999 to 2003, and the longest one from 2009 to 2021), having a cult following over all these years by its fans.
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!! ''Mea Culpa'' contains examples of:
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While Carlos Pinto has been there narrating the stories, the first season of the show was presented in a studio by Cecilia Serrano (then one of the hosts of ''24 Horas'', the primetime news of TVN) and featured a table of experts analyzing the dramatization just shown. Since season 2 Pinto became the only host.
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