Good writers and producers can find entry points into this material to make it more palatable. One of the first full-hog narco-novelas and one of the best, SIN TETAS NO HAY PARAÍSO, adopted a “cautionary tale” approach to the material. It glamorizes the narco lifestyle, but that glamorization is presented through the eyes of a stupid teenage girl, a framing device that allows authorial detachment for comment and criticism. The story itself contrasts the girl’s fantasies of a narco life with the grim and destructive realities when she actually becomes a part of that world.
Showing posts with label La Viuda Negra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Viuda Negra. Show all posts
Monday, May 26, 2014
TELENOVELA WATCH: 'El Señor de los Cielos' Season 2 Premieres; Plus, 'La Viuda Negra,' 'El Capo 3,' 'Camelia La Texana,' Favorites for the Week and More
Good writers and producers can find entry points into this material to make it more palatable. One of the first full-hog narco-novelas and one of the best, SIN TETAS NO HAY PARAÍSO, adopted a “cautionary tale” approach to the material. It glamorizes the narco lifestyle, but that glamorization is presented through the eyes of a stupid teenage girl, a framing device that allows authorial detachment for comment and criticism. The story itself contrasts the girl’s fantasies of a narco life with the grim and destructive realities when she actually becomes a part of that world.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
TELENOVELA WATCH: Surprise Hit 'La Viuda Negra', Final Episodes of 'Siempre Mi Amore', New MundoFox Series
Is La Viuda Negra any good? The direction and editing is the standard customary to Colombian produced narco-novelas, which is to say a better than we’ve seen thus far from Argos/Telemundo. The scripts are a hodgepodge of the now standard narco-clichés with smidgens of fact from Griselda Blanco’s actual life popping up now and again. But make no mistake, this is a drug fantasy, as ludicrous at times as Telemundo’s El Señor de los Cielos or Fox’s El Capo series.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Second Episode of LA VIUDA NEGRA Averaged 1.4 Million Viewers and Made UniMás No.2 Spanish-Language Network in Adults 18-34
Highlights from Second Episode:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
LA VIUDA NEGRA Reaches 5.8 Total Viewers in Simulcast Premiere Across Univision UniMás and Galavisión
The premiere telecast also made Univision the No. 2 broadcast network in the 10 p.m. hour, ahead of ABC and CBS, among Adults 18-34 and 18-49 as well as the No. 3 broadcast network among Total Viewers 2+. LA VIUDA NEGRA was the third most-watched program on all of broadcast television with more Adult 18-34 viewers than ABC's movie presentation of The Proposal and the 24th season premiere of CBS' THE AMAZING RACE: ALL-STARS.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
TELENOVELA WATCH: Four New Shows Premiere This Week
Indeed, 2014 looks to be overbrimming with narco-novelas with a second series of EL SEÑOR DE LOS CIELOS coming later this year to Telemundo, a third series of EL CAPO planned for March on MundoFox, all coming on the heels of the recently concluded reruns of LA REINA DEL SUR and ESCOBAR: EL PATRÓN DEL MAL on Telemundo and the currently airing ALIAS EL MEXICANO on MundoFox.
There have been two prevailing approaches to the material in the recent string of narco-novelas. The first takes a true crime angle, presenting the story of a real person, often fictionalized and with many names changed, but an attempt to tell the story with at the very least, a docu-drama style of realism. The best of these and by estimation, the only masterpiece of the narco-novela genre as a whole, the only one to demonstrate the moral seriousness the material demands while also telling its story in an engrossing manner, is ESCOBAR: EL PATRÓN DEL MAL.
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