One of the biggest aspects of my identity is that I am Venezuelan. I talk about my country probably everyday, which is why learning about telenovelas makes me feel closer to home as it is part of my culture. I remember how my nanny watched her telenovelas every night, you could not talk to her if she was watching her telenovela. I also remember the day that RCTV closed, I was little so I wasn't really aware of the seriousness of what was going on, but my mom and my sister were crying. All of the people of RCTV were on set and at midnight there was a black screen and then the national anthem started playing and a new network came on. The main Venezuelan networks broadcasted their telenovelas every night, and you could watch it everyday like my nanny, or you could binge like my parents.
Venezuela is not big on copyright– or at least the Venezuela I was born into. There has always been this street in my city, Maracaibo, were people have small stands and sell DVDs of all the movies, tv shows, and telenovelas that were popular at the time. It is definitely not legal, but the police went to buy DVDs too. My dad, for example, used to buy the DVDs of all of the episodes of the week of La Reina del Sur. We sat all together and binged those episodes during the weekend. I was 11, probably shouldn't have watched La Reina del Sur so young, but it is still one of the best telenovelas I have seen, and 9 years later I am watching season 2. My dad bought DVDs for all the other super series that came out before Netflix was available in Venezuela, now he can binge without buying DVDs. I don't know how this issue affected broadcasting companies in Venezuela, but it would be very interesting to find out.
SPOILER ALERT:
I remember the main plots of La Reina del Sur, but I can promise you I don't remember all the details since I watched it around 9 years ago. However, La Reina del Sur 2 touched on topics than I am almost certain they did not talk about in the first season. They have a plot about abortion, and gave the subtle message of it being a personal choice, not another's person's choice. They have a gay couple, in season 1 they have Patricia who is gay, but this couple is different and they show why the couple stays in the closet due to how society might react. They touch on many things that made it so much more than just something about narcotraffic. I binged season 2 on Netflix, just like I binged season 1 with my parent with DVDs.
Also, encontre este meme en facebook y me parecio comico, especialmente ahora que Univision esta pasando una dizi:
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