The Medusa Project From ‘Who Killed Sara?’ Is Inspired By Real Events! We Explain Here

The Medusa Project Real Story: Season 3 of ‘Who Killed Sara?‘ is out now, and you need to make sure you know all about it before you watch it. Among its chapters, it is explained what The Medusa Project is, we bring you a fact that perhaps you did not know: it is inspired by real events. The ending of ‘Who Killed Sara?’ finally solved the answers and exposed the culprits of the series. Not only is it confirmed that Marifer was not to blame for Sara’s death, as we had been led to believe in the season two finale, but they explain the whole truth about the mystery of Alex’s sister. And is that behind everything is the Medusa Project, a psychiatric treatment to which the protagonist of the series was subjected. However, this method is based on events that have occurred in real life.

The Medusa Project in ‘Who Killed Sara?’

Throughout the chapters of the third and last season, it is explained what the Medusa Project is, which is led by Nicandro’s father, Reinaldo Gómez, with the help of Sara’s psychiatrist, Dr. Alanís. It is a psychiatric treatment that aims to cure schizophrenia and homosexuality since Reinaldo affirms that Sigmund Freud at some point determined that both “illnesses” were related.

Reinaldo is blinded by the obsolete theory of Freud and that is why, with the help of Dr. Alanís, he knows that Sara is diagnosed with schizophrenia, so he does everything, including organizing the parachute accident and faking her death, to have her imprisoned in his clinic like a lab mouse. As if that were not enough, Reinaldo also experiments with his daughter, Daniela, who is a lesbian, and with Sara’s daughter, Lucía. Also, after he is released from prison, Chema, son of César Lazcano, voluntarily enters the clinic where the Medusa experiments are carried out.

The Medusa Project Is Based On Real Events

Since the 19th century, there have been various “conversion therapies”, which are practices that have been intended to try to “cure” homosexuality or trans identity. However, Sylvia Nasar exposes in her book ‘A Prodigious Mind’ that Freud’s theory linking homosexuality and schizophrenia has already been discredited, as other researchers such as Nancy Chodorow, Marie Mieli, and more have refuted his position through other investigations, according to the book ‘Psychiatry and Homophobia’ by Jacobo Schifter Sikora. There is no relationship between the two and homosexuality should not be treated as a disease.

As seen in ‘Who Killed Sara?‘ These conversion practices have included unethical and even harmful methods over the years, such as intense psychoanalysis, electroshocks, vomiting drugs, and even lobotomies. These practices are not only cruel but can be extremely harmful to those who take them. This was stated by the United Nations expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Víctor Madrigal-Borloz in a report before the Human Rights Council in which he urges States to collaborate in the prohibition of conversion therapies:

“These practices are inherently discriminatory, cruel, inhuman and degrading and, depending on the degree of physical or mental pain inflicted on the victim, can amount to forms of torture.”

Only in Mexico is it believed that conversion therapies still exist, as stated by the LBGT+ activist Ezequiel García. However, they are practices that must be eradicated because of how unethical they are and because of the harmful and cruel effects they can have on those who take them, as was seen in the final season of ‘Who Killed Sara?‘