can i really be the only person watching LA REINA DEL SUR?

every three or four eps someone is sure to say "it's the beginning of the end for teresa mendoza"

s1 still has 18 eps to go

"my aztec version of the count of monte cristo"

paty is drunk and sad at a party

"gentlemen, the end of teresa mendoza has started"

lol ambushed by unexpected disappointment every time oleg* disses soviet socialism

*why, bcz he is a GANGSTER

repeat plot point: that a character is desperately in lust w/someone merely bcz they resemble teresa mendoza physically

"you're a victim of cocaine!"
"i'm a victim of YOU and your LIES!"

"i had to pretend i was in love with you but i fell into my own trap!"

from now on all all scenes of angrily recrimination between loves must take place in a sportscar being driven at high wild speed along a cliff-top road by someone coked out of her head and weeping uncontrollably

i hadn't really paid it much mind as i don't listen to songwords much even when they're not in spanish (which i don't speak) but several times an episode los tigres del norte break in with the sung refrain "la reina del sur! traficante muy famosa" (= "the queen of the south! very famous drug dealer!" )

i love this show with my life

ramiro is very much not my favourite character but i do like actor salvador zerboni's commitment to seeming to be on ALL the drugs ALL the time

ALL THE DRUGS

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trying to think of presidential candidates more obviously evil-looking than epifanio vargas

Series 2 just started

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0mZg6xd9uE

lol i completely missed this (or maybe it only just started on uk netflix)

s2 has 60 eps!! oh my!

https://media.giphy.com/media/BNaETsu7Jqz6I91ZwR/giphy.gif

MUCH higher production values

melodrama index: unchanged based on e1

hadn't noticed this thread all year and had no idea there was going to be a S2. i'm excited, thx! kinda have mixed feelings since Pote is no longer around, but will check it nonetheless

e2 is even more exciting and ridiculous

(i am watching slowly in case my constitution can't take it)

she still has catastrophically bad taste in men lol

i mean they're hot obv but never have her best interests at heart

her daughter is terrific

is it ok to describe her as spunky

wondering where these lawned wooded mexican mini-pyramids are -- is it a deeply meaningful site for her return to mexico (or just a nice fancy backdrop)

so i just started watching this thinking it might be what i wanted and it is.

things i immediately love - the stuff around her bath and in her house. the way she stops putting a spliff in her mouth to sing a lyric she particularly likes. the *relentless* and v crude flashbacks. shit tonnes of high emotion. this is great.

i am ten mins in. there are 60 eps in season 1.

lol i want to rewatch s1 now as well

ok 1 episode down. it really is very good. the way it’s shot, the sense of environment - flats, streets, the city. and the viewer being smashed around flashbacks and emotional escalation like they’re a squash ball. high melodramatic feeling, and she as a character is great. no aspect of her resilience, guts and emotion feels out of place despite being daring, funny and brilliant. totally exuberant and the way the shots are made, up, the sheer amount of colour and mess in each one, is fantastic.

A+ see you in 60 episodes time.

not feeling any need to invest much love in these 3 galician assassins jumping into a little microplane to go kill teresa: this is ep 3 of 60

lol the "in the next exciting episode" teasers are lethal, THE NEXT EPISODE LOOKS VERY EXCITING AND ALSO TOTALLY NUTS

You watching this in the US, mark s.? I haven't found it yet.

You watching this in the US, mark s.? I haven't found it yet. Oh! Yaay Fizzles!

nope, in the UK, sorry

“there are many coincidences between us”
“is that good or bad?”
teresa shrugs
“weird”

both learning fast that you can’t trust how things pan out (particularly since she doesn’t realise how deep she is in the labyrinth of crookedness around her) and also breaking the mark s heuristic.

franklin anderson of the FBI with his business card that identifies him as Cheef Detective is now dead.

i’d love to screencap so many scenes in this. teresa sitting opposite a pimp with a lurid purple shirt and a bright yellow globe lamp on the table to take one example just now. the clothes generally are perfect.

then she goes out and gets trashed drinking tequila from a bottle while crying by a fountain.

in fact all the opening scenes in melilla are great. the interior furnishings beat anything you get elsewhere.

oh god it’s just got on to epifanio’s extremely unlikely political career.

some amazing continuity where epifanio and his sister in law are having a conversation at his ranch and it cuts to teresa getting arrested by the most lenient cop in the world before she gets a flight to and lands in madrid at which point it cuts back to continue the conversation at the ranch.

she needs to stop falling for drug movers tho.

or smugglers as they’re sometimes called.

don't hold your breath (for 60 episodes or more)

the goth stepsister of the kidnapped daughter, the raging bereaved gangster-gran who trains bulls for bullfighting

don't hold your breath (for 60 episodes or more)

the two norteamericano drugs cops back in washington, complaining about "bitches" (with the capitol as a handy backdrop)

teresa flying off to moscow: is she going to find POTE :D ?

(can you even fly to moscow from morroco? teresa mendoza can)

i like the moments when sofia and lupo like each other a bit for a moment, i guess it's classic stockholm syndrome but such strong characters butting heads whatcha gnna do?

ok you can fly from morocco to moscow, and she did

even on brief acquaintance i can see norteamericano drugs cops are going to be an entire sub genre to themselves in this.

correct

ok i lolled at this absurd and marvellous moscow location but i'm not going to spoiler it sorry

pancho villa klaxon

(mention not appearance)

no wait it is a kind of appearance omg (still no spoilers)

I found what I assume is half the first epi of S2 on YouTube. Picked up as bril as it left off. I can not wait til u.s. netflix hooks us up. Seriously best show ever

fabergé eggs klaxon (when in moscow i guess)

oleg is a different actor now, blander imo :(

(also i realised i was getting pote and oleg muddled upthread, bcz potemkine is a russian name)

e8 was a bit of an emo trudge but e9 has picked up some speed

weirdly this is reminding a bit of buffy s7: super-tough 2nd-gen young women en masse (ok there's three of them, teresa's daughter, the goth and her sister)

oh, i was wondering waht up, but didn't wanna spoiler any more than i already. . .that's too bad abt Oleg, my second fave Russian on the show (after Dima). i recall S1 had a episode or two that were lackluster, then it would get back to the goods. too bad the intro. has changed, imo. watching the band play was one of me and niece's fave parts - the facial expression of the bassist literally made us lol every time.

sara vidorreta as rocio aljarafe: best goth in a telenovella?

https://i.imgur.com/1xWUt9w.png

the non-goth is her sister paloma (agata clares)

a nice thing (if perhaps unstartling in long-running melodramas) is that her nemesis as first mentioned in post 3 back in July 2017 (jesus) aka the implausibly named sheila (she's spanish), is now her inseparable wise buddy, in trouble last ep for filming herself and her boyf (the legendary batman, see also upthread tho not so far) having extremely talkative sex atop the official documentary van on the official documentary tapes which the colombian police just examined (bcz official van turned out to be stolen, tho not by anyone in the story)

ok ppl we got there, teresa is now a prisoner of the sun (= the "black rider", who smuggles girls and also tin ! and plus runs the lady wrestling shows)

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they teased it but we haven't had more than a couple of sentences yet: i *think* the worst attempted london accent in the history of television (that ive watched anyway)

i need to update this: all but one person -- a very favourite character 😔 -- have escaped from every scrape so far

well every scrape except the andean panpipe outfit active in every single boiuvian cafe, none of us are escaping that it seems

question two: what was the last action thriller you watched based round the purchase of TIN (in spanish: estaño)

rereading this thread last night i clicked on the youtube for the original themetune -- which flashes us through scenes from the first half of s1 -- and despite what i say above epifanio also looks much younger than then (he has a boyish indie mop of black hair)

these days he looks more like an animated aztec mummy (despite which he has more onscreen sex than any two other characters put together) (in the most recent instance delivered over 2 x eps w/2 x hot young ladies none of them his wife)

otherwise the update is p much:
i) tesa is interested in a hot grizzled someone who does not have her interests at heart
ii) the gang has lost one of their number and everyone is sad (so am i)
iii) not quite in keeping with the theme (mexican tourism brochure for the andes) this is the first time i've even seen altitude sickness as a side-story in a glamorous crime-based TV show (as they drive high among the mountain sheila makes batman stop the car so she can vomit) (were there plot reasons to do this? NOT REALLY)
iv) colombian outer decor is like 20 gingerbread houses in every street (is this factual or are they selecting their camera set-ups to amplify this) (this show loves its locationwork!)

epic 2-ep gunfight set in bolivia's train cemetery in salar de uyuni, the world's largest salt flat

this looks as striking as you might imagine (tho the actual exchange of fire was confused: are the senior gang the BLACK RIDER or killing him?) (this may be my fault: the mission has taken so long that i've forgotten what was originally expected of them). the bolivian folkoric element swerves between deep brujo magic and panpipes shit

meanwhile the palace intrigue round epifanio remains vastly boring, even tho he's as saltily disgusting and fun as ever

(junior gang currently hiding out licking their wounds after a complicated sidequest to keep them busy without achieving much)

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