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
pancho villa klaxon
(mention not appearance)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
no wait it is a kind of appearance omg (still no spoilers)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
I found what I assume is half the first epi of S2 on YouTube. Picked up as bril as it left off. I can not wait til u.s. netflix hooks us up. Seriously best show ever
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 03:31 (four years ago) link
fabergé eggs klaxon (when in moscow i guess)
― mark s, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
oleg is a different actor now, blander imo :(
(also i realised i was getting pote and oleg muddled upthread, bcz potemkine is a russian name)
― mark s, Friday, 18 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
e8 was a bit of an emo trudge but e9 has picked up some speed
weirdly this is reminding a bit of buffy s7: super-tough 2nd-gen young women en masse (ok there's three of them, teresa's daughter, the goth and her sister)
― mark s, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
oh, i was wondering waht up, but didn't wanna spoiler any more than i already. . .that's too bad abt Oleg, my second fave Russian on the show (after Dima). i recall S1 had a episode or two that were lackluster, then it would get back to the goods. too bad the intro. has changed, imo. watching the band play was one of me and niece's fave parts - the facial expression of the bassist literally made us lol every time.
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
sara vidorreta as rocio aljarafe: best goth in a telenovella?
https://i.imgur.com/1xWUt9w.png
the non-goth is her sister paloma (agata clares)
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
also lol at the jules verne-ish turn teresa's and oleg's adventures just took :D :D :D
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
and the swell of some russian-sounding choral music when they hurtle from one absurd scrape to another
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
"i don't remember you, you're nobody""we're the dogs who will feast on your bones"
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
educational as well as exciting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_crucifixion_legend
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
the production values and qualoty of film stock have skyrocketed, and it's now set in "the entire world": yet if anything the ambition is even pulpier :)
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
viz: so far this ep had a v violent middle east scene war scene and a selling drugs in a rave scene and we're less than ten minutes in
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
i like sofia's watchful patience (so do the scriptwriters and directors, mind you)
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uPw99oT.jpg
Well, I can't spell jefe.
― mick signals, Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
ROMA HOUSE INVASION
juanita does terrific "hold me back! why i oughta… !" (opinion: she oughta)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
the war between prisoner sofia and gaoler morgana is hilarious
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
i've been a bit ambivalent abt the WAY higher production values but now and then (roughly once every other ep) when they frame one of the nuttier scenes it's kind of magnificent
this roma funeral by torchlight with all the grieving is a case in point, it's like something out of peter greenaway ffs
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
multiple tables turned and yet things don't get better!
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
(s2e16, for those keeping count or looking forward)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
i just watched S1E1 again with a friend to get them on board. i think they were slightly bamboozled. i enjoyed as much if not more the second time around. on ep10 otherwise. have had a pause due to work and life stuff but aiming to sort my priorities out.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
i really like S1 production values. watching the earlier day of the dead parade when she’s on the run some of the shots are just stunning in a v mundane way.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
yes i haven't been able to coax my main TV-watching buddies into co-bingeing :{
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
mundane way is bad words for what i meant which is that the quite cheap and lurid tv values give it a immediacy and realism. i *should* know what it’s shot in to give it that effect, but i don’t. ok i just checked “lensed entirely in digital format” it says here.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
s2 has a lush HD feel to it, so that the posh locations feel insanely stately and the poorer ones feel art-photographer grungy -- but lunatic nonsense hurtes through both, with not much more than a doorway bead curtain between them, so the immeciacy has become an urgency and the realism is semi-magic
(if it slows down a bit too much sometimes it always picks up speed again, with added wtf acute-angle turns)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
yikes this took a dark turn (e20) :0 :0 :0
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
oh this telenovela is so good at layering the badness of the ppl involved, and getting you to like and even love the "less bad" ones
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
things really not going epifanio's way
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
oh that's good to hearxposthopefully that goes for Ratta, too.
i think Dris Larbi is my favorite character name of all-time
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
wait who is ratta? dris was great
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Ratta is Epifanio's lunatic son
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
gotcha!
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, December 10, 2017 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkALL THE DRUGShttps://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― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
ALL THE DRUGS
https://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
― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
because greasing your millstones is what
gotcha! _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, December 10, 2017 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkALL THE DRUGS🖼― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink_
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
oh teresa why are you always horny for the worst (also prettiest) people
― mark s, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
spoiler*: teresa sexing a hottie who already sent the entire series extremely betraying her
*i mean obviously not a spoiler if you ever watch this show lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
the sexing is on an aztec pyramid, is where it is
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link