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
ok 1 episode down. it really is very good. the way it’s shot, the sense of environment - flats, streets, the city. and the viewer being smashed around flashbacks and emotional escalation like they’re a squash ball. high melodramatic feeling, and she as a character is great. no aspect of her resilience, guts and emotion feels out of place despite being daring, funny and brilliant. totally exuberant and the way the shots are made, up, the sheer amount of colour and mess in each one, is fantastic. A+ see you in 60 episodes time.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 13 October 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
not feeling any need to invest much love in these 3 galician assassins jumping into a little microplane to go kill teresa: this is ep 3 of 60
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
lol the "in the next exciting episode" teasers are lethal, THE NEXT EPISODE LOOKS VERY EXCITING AND ALSO TOTALLY NUTS
― mark s, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
You watching this in the US, mark s.? I haven't found it yet.
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Monday, 14 October 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
You watching this in the US, mark s.? I haven't found it yet. Oh! Yaay Fizzles!
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Monday, 14 October 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
nope, in the UK, sorry
― mark s, Monday, 14 October 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
“there are many coincidences between us”“is that good or bad?”teresa shrugs “weird”both learning fast that you can’t trust how things pan out (particularly since she doesn’t realise how deep she is in the labyrinth of crookedness around her) and also breaking the mark s heuristic.
― Fizzles, Monday, 14 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
franklin anderson of the FBI with his business card that identifies him as Cheef Detective is now dead.
― Fizzles, Monday, 14 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
i’d love to screencap so many scenes in this. teresa sitting opposite a pimp with a lurid purple shirt and a bright yellow globe lamp on the table to take one example just now. the clothes generally are perfect. then she goes out and gets trashed drinking tequila from a bottle while crying by a fountain.in fact all the opening scenes in melilla are great. the interior furnishings beat anything you get elsewhere. oh god it’s just got on to epifanio’s extremely unlikely political career. some amazing continuity where epifanio and his sister in law are having a conversation at his ranch and it cuts to teresa getting arrested by the most lenient cop in the world before she gets a flight to and lands in madrid at which point it cuts back to continue the conversation at the ranch. she needs to stop falling for drug movers tho.
― Fizzles, Monday, 14 October 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
or smugglers as they’re sometimes called.
― Fizzles, Monday, 14 October 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
don't hold your breath (for 60 episodes or more)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
the goth stepsister of the kidnapped daughter, the raging bereaved gangster-gran who trains bulls for bullfighting
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
the two norteamericano drugs cops back in washington, complaining about "bitches" (with the capitol as a handy backdrop)
teresa flying off to moscow: is she going to find POTE :D ?
(can you even fly to moscow from morroco? teresa mendoza can)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
i like the moments when sofia and lupo like each other a bit for a moment, i guess it's classic stockholm syndrome but such strong characters butting heads whatcha gnna do?
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
ok you can fly from morocco to moscow, and she did
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
even on brief acquaintance i can see norteamericano drugs cops are going to be an entire sub genre to themselves in this.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
correct
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
ok i lolled at this absurd and marvellous moscow location but i'm not going to spoiler it sorry
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:26 (four 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