Netflix high on drug series Senora Acero
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Senora Acero
Netflix
Seasons: 5, Episodes: 387
Why serials on Mexico are mostly about drug-trafficking and cartels? Is there nothing more to that country of lovely beaches, rugged terrain and women you could take life for? As many as seven Mexico-based serials are running on Netflix and all of them, without any exceptions, revolve around drug-trafficking.
Be it Senora Acero, a 2015 American telenovela with monstrous episodes of 75 per season, one even extending to 93, or others, like the one on Mexico’s woman president beset with controlling cartels, or a failed trafficker trying to revive his presence, not to mention the all pervasive Narcos – all of them are high on coke and their terrible side-effects.
Like big screen games in America are mostly concentrated on the White House under siege, the Mexico-fixated directors are possibly afflicted by the herd mentality syndrome. If one like Narcos became a rage, others will too, kind of thing. And they mostly do, thanks to the voyeuristic mindset of global audiences.
Why else, pray tell me, should an Indian OTT buff be binging on Senora Acero and get so involved in their war and turn so alien to India that most of the time the viewer forgets the language is not Hindi or English and that he has spent hours reading the subtitles?
Come to Senora Acero. The romance of uncertain life, violence, loyalty, betrayal, glitzy houses, lovely women, dangerous missions, the fearful criminal-police nexus can’t be but interesting and above all the fight for survival.
To top that, the serial starts with the point of view of a woman – a woman of steel –victimised by an obsessive drug lord, fighting to save her diabetic son after her husband to be is killed on her wedding, and then rising through the ranks of a cutthroat (literally) to become the most wanted woman trafficker in Mexico.
All the elements of binging are cleverly introduced even though you get bogged down by the number of episodes in all of its Seasons 1 to 5 – 74, 75, 93, 73 and 69 and sometimes even the bucket expressions of the leading lady of the first two seasons Blanca Soto, the lovely lissome beauty with those crazily compelling green eyes.
The good thing about Senora Acero is that like her sexy green eyes, the series too is catchy and each episodes ends on a note that you can’t but watch the next. Until, of course, the story strays to other people and their issues.
Should you invest so much time and internet data on such a long serial in an alien language? It grew on me so I would say, a good watch till at least Season 2. Take it up on choice from there onwards!