Latinx Leaders on Succeeding in Hollywood
…the Latinx content that is missing on television. In addition to acting, the Tejana has also directed and produced shows, including Grand Hotel, Devious Maids, Telenovela, and Gordita Chronicles. In…
…the Latinx content that is missing on television. In addition to acting, the Tejana has also directed and produced shows, including Grand Hotel, Devious Maids, Telenovela, and Gordita Chronicles. In…
Like many Latines out there, I grew up watching telenovelas with my mom and my grandma. I loved the rags-to-riches romances. You know the type – the kind of stories…
…subtitle because I was thinking the same thing. I watch telenovelas, and I am constantly disappointed by the representation. A part of me even groaned when I saw the Castillos….
…parts real-telenovela and self-aware telenovela parody. Through its 36-episode run, it gleefully dances between the two. There are fake pregnancies, blackmail schemes, and a loan shark subplot that may or…
…top ten. It also holds a Guinness record as the world’s most successful telenovela, seen in 180 countries, translated into 25 languages, and remade 30 times, including the US version,…
Telenovelas are a huge part of Latinx pop culture. We remember our abuelitas, moms, and tias watching the latest must-see shows, grew up emulating the actresses’ beauty looks and style,…
For most of my childhood and adolescence, if my abuela wasn’t cooking me fideo or heating up a can of Juanita’s pozole, she was watching Mexican telenovelas on TV. She…
…had their fair share of issues (granted, this is a telenovela), but the respect and love that Michael brought to the relationship was swoon-worthy. From reciting his vows in Spanish…
…now ‘the movie.’ The thing that makes telenovelas distinct and (even as a long-standing and on-going Grey’s Anatomy fan) I’d argue superior to their Anglo counterparts is that they end….
…Reina del Sur telenovela, and that made me stay away from this for far too long, because I was afraid it was just going to be more playing into the…