Showing posts with label Mi Corazón Es Tuyo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mi Corazón Es Tuyo. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

TELENOVELA WATCH: This Week's Finales of 'Los Miserables' (Tonight) and 'Mi Corazón es Tuyo' (Friday)

The Los Miserables finale beings at 8 p.m. ET tonight on Telemundo.
Los Miserables concludes tonight with a two-hour finale on Telemundo starting at 8 p.m. ET. Despite the title and the insistence of the network’s press materials, the telenovela had next to nothing to do with the Victor Hugo novel. Nevertheless, Los Miserables began well and featured protagonist Aracely Arámbula’s first decent performance since her juvenile roles in the mid-1990s. She is by no means a good actress, but after suffering through the likes of Blanca Soto and María Elisa Camargo in recent Telemundo telenovelas, as well as Arámbula’s own horrible performances in Corazón Salvaje in 2010 and La Patrona in 2013, her work here is at least bearable.

Less bearable was the horrific Gabriel Porras who seems to get worse with each telenovela. The opening weeks of Los Miserables were not terrible by Telemundo’s recent standards at least in part because Porras’s role was minimized. Unfortunately, it didn’t last long and soon Porras’s drug lord character was given a twin, so we could see Porras cartoonishly overact two roles. I gave up regular viewing of this telenovela at that point. What happened to the competent actor from those Azteca telenovelas from the early 2000s? The same question fits his Los Miserables co-star Aylín Mujica who was also far better in her work at Azteca than she’s ever been at Telemundo.

Telemundo’s Mexican-produced telenovelas in conjunction with Argos are in a rut. The best of this recent batch is still the first, Rosa Diamante, from 2012. The others: La Patrona, La Impostora, Los Miserables and even the narco-novela Señora Acero all seem part of the same drab, monotonous universe. Budgetary restrictions are noticeable, particularly in how they all feature a seemingly endless parade of characters sent to the same hospital and prison sets. Even the actors are drab in these recent productions, especially the supporting actors and juveniles. Part of this problem may lie in Telemundo/Argos being third in the talent pecking order in Mexico behind Televisa and Azteca. Even with these flaws, the Telemundo/Argos productions are still better than what the network’s been churning out of Miami in the last year, Dueños del Paraíso included.

Monday, July 21, 2014

TELENOVELA WATCH: Premieres - 'Mi Corazón Es Tuyo' Tonight, 'El Mariachi' Tuesday, Telemundo Doldrums, Favorites For The Week

Mi Corazón Es Tuyo premieres tonight on Univision.
Mi Corazón Es Tuyo premieres tonight at 8 p.m. ET on Univision. A Mexican telenovela from Televisa, Mi Corazón Es Tuyo is an adaptation of a series from Spain called Ana y Los 7 that aired from 2002-2005.

The story is a kind of warped Sound of Music. From the press materials: “A mix-up at an employment agency lands Ana Guerrero at the home of Fernando Lascurain, a wealthy widower with seven uncontrollable children and a dire need of someone to look after them. Serious financial troubles have forced the goodhearted young woman to work as an exotic dancer at a nightclub, so she seizes this unforeseen opportunity to do something better and takes the job. With her cheerful disposition and will to succeed, Ana manages to pass every challenge posed by the Lascurain children, gradually winning their trust and affection. And as time goes by, Fernando begins to realize that for the first time since the death of his wife, his home is filled with love once again and that his heart belongs to Ana.”