{"id":402189,"date":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","slug":"dr-santos-mel-karaoke-scene-explained-isa-briones-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402189\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Santos & Mel Karaoke Scene Explained \u2014 Isa Briones Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

TVLINE | We knew from Season 1 that Santos has a history of childhood trauma<\/a>, and this season we learned she also has a history of self-harm<\/a>. When did you first learn that was part of her story, and how did it inform the choices you made this season?
We talked a little bit about it when we had our first character talk before Season 1 even started filming, and they gave a broad overview of her background. They said she has these mental health struggles, she’s had this past \u2014 we don’t fully know what’s going to be explored, but we’ve talked about maybe self-harm, an eating disorder, something like that \u2014 some version of self-harm being part of her history.<\/p>\n

But then once Season 2 came around, when we were leading up to Episode 7, [series creator R.] Scott [Gemmill] emailed me and said, “We have this idea. We see her scars. How do you feel about that? Are you comfortable with that?” I was kind of nervous, just because sometimes you see misuse of self-harm storylines in media \u2014 where it can be used to prop someone else up, or as trauma porn, or romanticizing it, or even sexualizing it. It can be a slippery slope.<\/p>\n

So I said, “This is a great conversation to have, but we need to make sure we do it right.” I still don’t fully know how it all lands, but since it’s such a sensitive topic and something I care a lot about, I was really nervous about it, but also excited to get to represent that, because it is a really big thing for a lot of people, but also in medical professionals.<\/p>\n

I think the whole show looks at mental health issues through every single character, just from different vantage points, and everyone copes in different ways. This is her way, and I was happy that we got to address it.<\/p>\n

When I saw people’s reactions to that scene where we see the scars, it was really heartwarming \u2014 to see people be like, “Oh my God, I’ve never actually seen this in mainstream media,” seeing actual scars that really look like how they look, in a realistic place \u2014 it was emotional, but cathartic, to see it represented so truthfully. I was very, very happy about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TVLINE | We knew from Season 1 that Santos has a history of childhood trauma, and this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-402189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}