Blood, sweat and tears with a few moments of happiness. The acting isn't the best but my curiosity needed to find out what would happen next. The show is a tele-novella from Colombia that takes place in the 1800's. As in any soap opera there are parts where I felt like cheering, parts that were suspenseful, and boring parts where I found myself saying "blah, blah, blah!"
Tonight I saw the last episode and after may deaths and betrayals, everyone ends up being happy and content. I found myself wondering about a young man who ended up in prison because I would have wanted to see him released and united with his loved ones, but now I will never know what happened to that character. I guess I should be happy that most of the main characters (Lucia, Milagro, Rosario, Tomas, Trinidad, Julian, and Nicolas) got what they deserved. The last scene shows the good guys around a table raising their glasses of wine and toasting what will become a glorious future. The white "bad guy" ends up as a slave in the mines with many black slaves. His mean and cruel mother goes off into the distance alone and unloved.
Each episode was about one hour long and I would watch 3-4 segments at a time and enjoyed every minute! A couple of nights I even had some of the characters enter my dreams!
"I think that baseball games
are like soap operas. If you
watch four in a row, you
know enough to get hooked.
Jennifer Garner
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