Students[edit]

 David Solans as Bruno Bergeron. (Seasons 1–2, guest Season 3) Bruno is Merlí's
son. For him, it is complicated having his father in class teaching in front of his friends.
He is an extroverted kid, with a sense of irony inherited from his father and
grandmother. He has also learned from his father to be non-conforming and to
complain about things, so he forgets discretion. Bruno starts a new life when his
mother moves to Rome and leaves him to live with his father, with whom he has a
complicated relationship. Bruno is gay and in love with Pol, a good friend of his. He
gets along well with the majority of the students, especially Tània, his best friend. They
are inseparable and trust each other with everything. Bruno feels like he can be himself
around Tània. After talking to Oliver at the end of the first season, he comes out of the
closet and begins a new life being openly gay.
 Carlos Cuevas as Pol Rubio. Pol is 18 years old and has repeated two courses. He
is the popular guy at school, and all the girls seem to want to be with him. He is also
somewhat cold and manipulative, saying he has never been in love and does not plan
on it, but using relationships for sex, as is the case with Berta Prats. Pol has many
issues with his home life. He lives with his grandmother, father, and brother in the
majority of the first season. His family doesn't have a lot of money, and Pol suffers from
having a bad relationship with his brother and father as well as missing his mother, who
died when he was young. After getting involved with Bruno on numerous occasions, his
sexual orientation begins to be discussed and questioned.
 Candela Antón as Berta Prats. Berta is an extroverted girl uninterested in her
classes. She is the ultimate attention-seeker, willing to do anything for the spotlight to
be on her, even if it means morally ambiguous actions. She often feels alone, but acts
strong. She spends her classes drawing on her desk, and it seems to be the only thing
she's interested in. Berta's a smart girl, daring and misunderstood. She feels a lack of
love from her family, and looks for it in relationships with boys like Pol Rubio. Like all
other teenagers, she's searching for her place in the world.
 Albert Baró as Joan Capdevila. Joan is a kindhearted and shy teenage boy dealing
with immense pressure from his family, particularly from his father. He lacks a sense of
self-confidence, and his shyness is evident from the way he talks and moves. He is
mild in every sense of the word, humble, attentive, calm, and responsible. It seems like
nothing he does is enough to satisfy his father, and gains the help of Merlí to try to
change the way he is perceived and treated. He admires Merlí and his classes.
 Adrian Grösser as Marc Vilaseca. Marc is everyone's friend. He doesn't get himself
into any teenage drama and is the joker of the class. He likes being liked and having
his place in the group. He is responsible with his studies and knows with certainty that
he wants to become an actor. He is a player, and often flirts, but with varying levels of
success. His best friend is Gerard. He skates to school and has a younger brother,
Pau, who he loves and cares about a lot.
 Marcos Franz as Gerard Piguillem. Gerard is an unsatisfied teenager. He has never
had everything he has wanted, and is frustrated by the fact. He is extroverted, and
unsure of what to do with his life, although he is often encouraged by his mother. He
falls in love easily, and in the first season rapidly proclaims that he is in love with the
new student, Monica. Gerard is easily bothered and constantly wants to prove his
worth. His mother is overprotective and he is immature. He has a blog where he
occasionally posts videos talking about his life.
 Pau Poch as Ivan Blasco. Ivan spends his days locked up in his room, refusing to
leave the house. He lives alone with his mother, who doesn't know what to do with him.
Eventually Merlí starts visiting him at his house to give him classes and convince him
that his agoraphobia is not permanent, investing time and effort into getting Ivan to be
comfortable facing the outdoors alone and going back to school despite his initial
refusal to do so and his disliking for the idea of getting a psychiatrist. Merlí attempts to
get Ivan to change his habits, and Ivan learns to think outside of the news stories he
loves to read online and about his own life.
 Júlia Creus as Mònica de Villamore. Monica is a new student that entered the
institute half-way through the year. She comes from a good family, but her parents
have been separated since she was 10 years old. She is often told she looks more
mature than she actually is, both physically and in her way of speaking and acting.
Both Joan and Gerard are in love with her.
 Elisabet Casanovas as Tània Illa. Incredibly kind and understanding, Tània is very
extroverted, respectful, and idealist. The most satisfying aspect of her life is her
friendship with others. She is a dedicated friend, especially to Bruno, with whom she is
inseparable. She loves to live in the moment, and has a good time in the institute. She
would like to be a teacher one day, like her mother. Tània is very self-conscious about
her body, and believes that it is not ideal and not what boys her age find attractive. She
thinks she appears cute and nice to them, but not hot or sexually appealing. Tània is
naive and a dreamer, idealizing the idea of love. Being upset with her is practically
impossible.
 Iñaki Mur as Oliver Grau. Oliver is a confident student. He is proudly gay, and
considers himself to be likable and agreeable. He doesn't worry about what people
think of him. He has many issues with his family, but gives off a content and carefree
appearance at school. He helps Bruno come out of the closet in the end of season one.
 Laia Manzanares as Oksana Casanoves (Seasons 2–3), a new student in the
second season. She is adopted and originally from Ukraine. The girls in the school
admire her and the boys find her attractive. From the beginning, she takes interest in
Gerard, who only has eyes for Monica. She thinks she can help him get over her.
Oksana likes to get involved with people, and she likes to show that she is more
experiences than many of the other students both in sex and relationships as well is in
understanding feelings and emotions. In the last chapters of the running last season,
she seems, due to some other things happening to her, to become more eager to know
more about her biological mother and her origins in Ukraine.
 Cristina Colom as Diana.
 Albert Bufill as Enric.
 Clàudia Puntí as Laura.
 Pol Hermoso as Uri.
 Marc Arias as Xavi.
Family[edit]
 Anna M. Barbany as Carmina Calduch, Merlí's mother and Bruno's grandmother.
She is a well-known actress, having worked in movies, television, and, especially,
theatre. It is while acting that she feels genuinely happy. Everybody knows her as “La
Calduch”.
 Marta Marco as Gina Castells, Gerard's mother, and Merlí's eventual love interest.
 Jordi Martínez as Jaume Capdevila, Joan's overprotective and somewhat
obsessive father. In the first season, we learn that he has cancer.
 Victòria Pagès as Aurèlia Bonet, Joan's mother, who makes more of an effort to
understand and help him than Jaume does.
 Anna Ycobalzeta as Míriam Blasco, Ivan's mother. She gets involved with both
Merlí and Pol during the second season. She loves her son more than anything else in
the world and runs a bar.
 Marta Domingo as Elsa García. Elsa is Berta's mother. She seems to always show
a preference for Berta's sister, which takes a toll on Berta. She is a hairdresser and
owns her own salon.
 Marta Calvó as Bàrbara, Bruno's mother. She moves to Rome in the beginning of
the series.
 Asunción Balaguer as Pol and Óscar's grandmother.
 Oriol Pla as Óscar, Pol's brother. Óscar prefers to take his dad's side over his
brother's. He is a hard worker who was forced to abandon his studies to provide for the
family when his mother died.
 Carlos Vicente as Enric, Oliver's father.
 Boris Ruiz as Alfonso Rubio. He is Pol and Óscar's father. He is 55 years old and
bitter over the loss of his wife. He forces his sons to work to pay the bills.
 Anna Barrachina as Lídia, Marc and Pau's mother. She is a nurse with little time to
care for her sons.
 León Martínez as Pau Vilaseca, Marc's younger brother. He has troubles in his
studies with nearly all of his teachers and is a complicated child. It is suggested by
Silvana that he may have ADHD.
 Cristina Genebat as Anna, Oliver's mother. She still has not gotten over the death
of her other son, Edgar. She is obsessed with Edgar and has a bad relationship with
Oliver.

Episodes[edit]
Season 1[edit]
# Name Broadcast date

1 "Els Peripatètics" September 14, 2015

2 "Plató" September 21, 2015

3 "Maquiavel" September 28, 2015

4 "Aristòtil" October 5, 2015

5 "Sòcrates" October 12, 2015

6 "Schopenhauer" October 19, 2015

7 "Foucault" October 26, 2015

8 "Guy Debord" November 2, 2015

9 "Epicur" November 9, 2015

10 "Els escèptics" November 16, 2015

 11 "Els sofistes" November 23, 2015

12 "Hume" November 30, 2015

13 "Nietzsche" December 7, 2015

Season 2[edit]
# Name Broadcast date

14 "Els Presocràtics" September 19, 2016

15 "Thomas Hobbes" September 26, 2016

16 "Els estoics" October 3, 2016

17 "Kant" October 10, 2016

18 "Hipàrquia" October 17, 2016

19 "Montaigne" October 24, 2016

20 "Judith Butler" October 31, 2016

21 "Freud" November 7, 2016

22 "Descartes" November 14, 2016

23 "Engels" November 21, 2016

24 "Zizek" November 28, 2016

25 "El taoisme" December 5, 2016

 26 "Boeci" December 12, 2016

Season 3[edit]
# Name Broadcast date

27 "Walter Benjamin" September 18, 2017

28 "Adam Smith" September 25, 2017

29 "Albert Camus" October 2, 2017

30 "Karl Marx" October 9, 2017

31 "Hannah Arendt" October 23, 2017

32 "Kierkegaard" October 30, 2017

33 "Thoreau" November 6, 2017

34 "Plotí" November 13, 2017

35 "Zygmunt Bauman" November 20, 2017

36 "Heidegger" November 27, 2017

37 "Hegel" December 4, 2017

38 "Sant Agustí" December 11, 2017

39 "Els Peripatètics del segle XXI" January 8, 2018

40 "Merlí Bergeron" January 15, 2018

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