
Spanish-Language Limited Series Making a New Telenovela Format
Streaming platforms are creating a new telenovela with innovative formats available for the quick consumption modern Latinx viewers like.
Streaming platforms are creating a new telenovela with innovative formats available for the quick consumption modern Latinx viewers like.
Not until my 20s did I start realizing how seeing telenovelas romanticize toxic male behavior had affected me to a scary and unhealthy point.
Female rage is a form of resistance. Let’s use our anger to fight the oppressors – just like our telenovela heroines show us.
We still stereotypes in queer characters on telenovelas, but it’s still worth celebrating the progress we’ve made.
As someone who works in fashion and like Betty, doesn’t fit the industry’s beauty ideal, I love “Betty La Fea” and want more from the reboot.
There are no evil stepmoms without spineless, absent fathers. But blaming women has always been easier. Thank goodness, that’s stopping.
In the SXSW rom-com “Switch Up” the moral of the story is to pay it forward says its star Julieth Restrepo and director Tara Pirnia.
We need more Latina faces on screen reflecting the mixture of real Latinx communities. An Ugly Betty reunion would help.
More people need to be discussing “Ana,” a vibrant Latina take on “slice of life TV” by trailblazer Ana de la Reguera available now on ViX.
Both Barbies and telenovelas peaked at the turn of the millennium, leading to an implosion of feminine world-building for Latinas like me.