meanwhile lRdS itself is currently exploring the ethics (and otherwise) of people-trafficking and generally looking more closely at the dynamics of migrancy in the med than a great deal of much fancier TV
― mark s, Saturday, 22 July 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
putting s/b put
― mark s, Saturday, 22 July 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
been compulsively watching this with my niece for a few weeks and it's at once amazing and sometimes silly. thx for rec! have abt 10 more eps to go and shit is getting really real. and i keep falling in love. first it was Soraya, then Veronica. (so many great characters, too - Batman, Pote, Oleg, Fati)
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Friday, 18 August 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
I liked the sound of this and thought I was downloading a torrent of it. Boo! It turned out to be the poxy American remake. Another series that doesn't get mentioned on here is Gomorrah, which is an ultra-violent trashy crime series, with a cast of some impeccably dressed thugs amongst the ruin pron of the crumbling housing projects in Naples. And the death count is ridiculously high - between S1 and s2 more than half the cast are already in the ground. It is good fun though.
― calzino, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
episode 19 plot summary: "teresa loses again"
― mark s, Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
her boyfs are all gorgeous, also dicks
― mark s, Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
some eps set in a women's prison: assuming dickish and/or dead boys not an issue for a while
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
"Lieut.O'Farrell is pure oligarchy, honey"
(also not a lieut., i didn't get that bit)
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
it is more o/g cell block h than orange is the new, that's for sure
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHnemDkHvgA
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
actually a better version, fond as i am etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng-eYklcmEM
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
paty: "where i walk the grass stops growing"
(self-hate rather than threat)
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
I wish someone would upload an English subtitles rip of this in t0rrentland, it sounds awesome.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
tbh the subtitles on netflix are intermittent AND wayward
lol, there's more time displacement in this soap than in inland empire
― mark s, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
i predict paty too will die :{
― mark s, Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
http://68.media.tumblr.com/a92ef861f1c2056ae6a16aa7e8adc7ec/tumblr_inline_mlxzsjMhxw1qz4rgp.gif
― mark s, Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
we regret to inform you i am back on my* bullshit
*actually kate del castillo's obv
― mark s, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
lol she just had her michael corleone MASS-REVENGE moment: "la mexicana says HI"
― mark s, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
^^^this ended p badly (tho we are not yet half way thru the 63 eps of the first series)
― mark s, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
love the way the only person who actually gets the depth of her UNSPOKEN SOULFULNESS is the top russian gangster
― mark s, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
the full name of this character -- usually referred too as pote or el pote -- is POTEMKINE GALVEZ
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
"if blood has to rain from the sky, we will open our umbrellas"
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
"it's the beginning of the end for teresa mendoza"
we are on ep 38 of 63, so i guess "… but perhaps the end of the beginning" applies here
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
pati getting very meta in her jealousy: "what shall we call this telenovella? love in the time of narcotraffic?"
(wd watch, obviously) (am watching)
― mark s, Saturday, 11 November 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
"you're as mad as a goat, tesa!"
oleg pleased that teresa is happy (for once) but also worried
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
lots of TV crime dramas and policiers are about migrancy peripherally -- its "problems" as significant plot-driving element etc -- but i've never watched one that centres it the way lRdS does
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
lol at me being taken aback when the chief russian gangster turns out to have beef with communists -- i'm like "i like him, how can he be a czarist?"
he is in fact a murderous drug smuggler albeit one who likes and more importantly understands teresa mendoza (also a gangster)
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
"my aztec version of the count of monte cristo"
paty is drunk and sad at a party
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
"gentlemen, the end of teresa mendoza has started"
― mark s, Monday, 27 November 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
lol ambushed by unexpected disappointment every time oleg* disses soviet socialism
*why, bcz he is a GANGSTER
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
repeat plot point: that a character is desperately in lust w/someone merely bcz they resemble teresa mendoza physically
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
"you're a victim of cocaine!" "i'm a victim of YOU and your LIES!"
― mark s, Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
"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
― mark s, Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
ALL THE DRUGS
http://www.telemundo.com/sites/nbcutelemundo/files/styles/promotional_content_4_3/public/sites/nbcutelemundo/files/images/gallery/2014/02/19/reina_rataseductora01_130514439041_2_0.jpg?itok=GqEw1Mzj
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
trying to think of presidential candidates more obviously evil-looking than epifanio vargas
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Series 2 just started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0mZg6xd9uE
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 April 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
MUCH higher production values
melodrama index: unchanged based on e1
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
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
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
e2 is even more exciting and ridiculous
(i am watching slowly in case my constitution can't take it)
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
she still has catastrophically bad taste in men lol
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
i mean they're hot obv but never have her best interests at heart
her daughter is terrific
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
is it ok to describe her as spunky
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
lol i want to rewatch s1 now as well
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
loool a very word-heavy reveal at a fraught everyone-back-together moment suddenly casually tosses in the claim -- i think meant to be true, a man is pleading for his life -- that the US are interfering in mexico's elections by ensuring the president is (a) a legendarily corrupt gangster and (b) a puppet in their pocketses
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
during the extremely long word-dump recap the approaching threat has once again been the sexy assassin on a bike but the recap-reveal is so detailed that it feels like she's motored across the whole of mexico
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
oh no
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
i kind of knew this was on the weay bcz i spoilered myself looking up something abt what else the actress in question had done
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
don't forget totzi :(
is there no one else in this airport?
anyway lol it's GLOVES OFF now
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
"there's a reason they call her QUEEN OF THE SOUTH"
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
thats right
https://radical.town/media/radical-town-media/accounts/avatars/000/000/008/static/d986e9e06e7521c7.png
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
ok so who ELSE is inexplicably alive and requires fill-in backstory to firm up this fact unconvincingly
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
not that i care, this is exactly what i watch this insane show for
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
it is effective that -- in this tangled war between very bad gangsters doing murders and stuff -- the overarching baddie who allows us to withhold full judgment is washington, behaving very much more badly
― mark s, Monday, 7 December 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
this is a documentary
haha this US agency is out-of-the-box evil
and it's not even the CIA
(well it might be but i *think* it's the DEA)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
not helping that i started watching this series 1 x yrs ago, binged like 40eps, stopped for 10 months for various reasons inc 🦠🦠🦠🦠 and am back again and bingeing again -- some of these callbacks are p mysterious to me, like who is this young tied-up man suddenly
(last week he was skateboarding in front of congress in washington and he's kira's nephew but how does he have a plot role, i just entirely forgot)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
mexican all-woman shoot-out near the washington monument, we love too see it
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
¡finally! circled back to this (starting at e54)
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
lol i have no idea who this young angry grieving goth lady is any more, there is a downside to my very punctuated bingeing style
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
"sit near the river and you will see your enemy's body float by"
this is also my motto
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
my enemy is ned raggett
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
a funny thing abt this show is that they present the DEA as a kind of more focused CIA, all plots and plans and overthrowing the rightful mexican government (a gangster)
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
teresa has a low opinion of gringos
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
literally no one is ever dead in this show
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
i see from five yrs ago i was commenting on the unending interwoven flashbacks, that hasn't slowed down at all
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
lee harvey batman
― mark s, Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
this ep has an escape from jail by helicopter as a mere passing element for some minor characters
(i mean i'm sure they'll have a role shortly but in any other show an escape from jail by helicopter would be climactic for a bigwig)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
(just checked and s3 of his marvellous show is all ready to run)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
o fuk that's eric roberts (as the corrupt and murderous head of the DEA)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
season three begun broadcasting 1 x week ago: 6 eps so far tho i have not found them anywhere yet
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
i keep reading that it's on netflix but it's not on netflix uk yet 😔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7yh9KOrQpE
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/a92ef861f1c2056ae6a16aa7e8adc7ec/tumblr_inline_mlxzsjMhxw1qz4rgp.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
loooool amazing gif
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link