They face big conflicts and hit back.
They never turn the other cheek or falter in the face of adversity.
They go to the bottom, even at the risk of harming and harming themselves
, seeking to impose their wills.
This is how the emblematic characters of several of the most popular Netflix series are: those that in April ranked among the ten most viewed on the platform in Argentina.
Here is an overview of the motivations, personalities and conflicts displayed by the protagonists of
seven of the most successful
Netflix series in the country:
Pasión de Gavilanes, Until the money separates us, La Reina del Sur, Entrevías, The Night Agent, Bronca
and
Obsession
.
Passion of Hawks
Norma Elizondo
Norma Elizondo (played by Danna Garcia).
"Danna García has the best character in
Pasión de Gavilanes
," fans comment on social networks.
This choral Colombian telenovela
had been released with massive success back in 2003 and only returned in 2022: it spent
76 weeks in the Netflix Top 10
.
And Norma Elizondo continues to be the emblematic protagonist.
The initial conflict at the famous Elizondo hacienda had been the desire for revenge of the three virile Reyes brothers against the supposed murderer of Libia, their younger sister: the father of the beautiful Elizondo sisters.
But the muscular, tall and long-haired Juan Reyes (
Mario Cimarro
) fell in love with the blonde Norma Elizondo (Danna García).
They suffered from everything and rested for nineteen years
.
Now, in Pasión de Gavilanes 2, massive eyes once again rest on Norma Elizondo, who has three children with Juan Reyes: her eldest son Juan David and the twins Erick and León, two young rebels who find themselves involved in a strange murder.
Juan Reyes will fight to protect them, but
it will be Norma Elizondo who defines the tone of Pasión de Gavilanes with her sensuality, elegance, intelligence, and above all with her violent character
in a world of aggressive men.
She is the true head of the Kings clan.
Until money do us part
Alejandra Maldonado
Alejandra Maldonado (by Carmen Villalobos).
The pose-hook is classic: a low-income young man tries to make the upper-class girl fall in love.
Alejandra Maldonado
(Carmen Villalobos, the villain of
Café con aroma de mujer
) and Rafael Méndez (Sebastián Martínez) come from opposite worlds and will live an unconventional romance, not to say toxic:
they constantly attack and attract each other
after having an accident motoring.
That left them a million-dollar debt and the kick for their love-hate relationship.
Immediately, the psychology of Alejandra Maldonado will be exposed, little in keeping with these times of female empowerment.
"She is hysterical and moody"
, defined by Carmen Villalobos herself.
Alejandra Maldonado discovers that she is not attracted to the supposed love of her life.
Instead, she and Rafael Méndez will experience everything: jealousy, disagreements, and a thirst for revenge that will put them to the test.
Will they ever have peace?
Hasta que la plata nos separes
had been launched in Colombia in 2022 without much success: it could not compete with the telenovela of which it is a remake, from 2006, created by Fernando Gaitán (the brain behind Café
con aroma de mujer
and I am Betty , the ugly).
But Netflix relaunched it on October 19, 2022 and it spent 25 weeks in the Top 10 in Argentina.
The Queen of the South - Season 3
Teresa Mendoza
Teresa Maldonado (Kate del Castillo).
A heroine who uses weapons, traffics drugs and seeks revenge on her narco-rivals
: corrupt politicians and businessmen.
These are the hallmarks of
La Reina del Sur
, this 2011 crime drama series based on the novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte.
Eleven years after its start, it launched the third season in 2022 and in December it reached Netflix: it spent ten consecutive weeks in the Argentine Top 10.
Its focus is Teresa Mendoza,
the character who reconsecrated Kate del Castillo
, already a reference to the most intense soap operas in Mexico.
The new 60 episodes kick off four years after the lavish close of the second season.
It was when Teresa Mendoza had to leave her relaxed life with her daughter Sofía (Isabella Sierra).
She was identified by criminal military forces and fled
.
Now Teresa must face the most dangerous mission of her life: leave everything behind, even at the risk of abandoning her drug throne as "the Queen of the South."
In the brand new episodes,
she was imprisoned in a high-security prison in the United States after the murder of three
DEA agents.
She but she then manages to escape and forms a power alliance that crosses several countries to face the forces of law.
How much further south can he reign?
Entrevías - Season 2
Tirso Abantos
Tirso Abantos (interpreted by the Spanish José Coronado).
What can an old man do to take care of his granddaughter?
Carry weapons, defend the neighborhood from gangs and beat up everyone who comes across it
.
That is the vision of life that Tirso Abantos has, the ex-military grandfather of the Spanish series
Entrevías
, whose second season was released on March 1 and spent six weeks in the ranking of the ten most watched on Netflix.
Tirso Abantos (
José Coronado, the same actor from Vivir sin permiso
)
is a dark but moral character
who seeks to protect his granddaughter Irene Sánchez Abantos (Nona Sobo, a Spaniard born in Thailand) from drug traffickers.
In the new eight episodes of
Entrevías,
he delves into the psychology of Abantos, who fought in Bosnia in the '90s and now runs a hardware store
.
Her granddaughter Irene's problem is that she can't get away from her dangerous boyfriend, Nelson Gutiérrez (Colombian Felipe Londoño).
At first she tried to flee from the drug siege, just around the corner, but she always relapses.
Between a vigilante, a round-the-clock watchman and a strict defender
of his Entrevías neighborhood, now the harsh old man stands in front of his neighbors to protect them from a real estate investment that threatens to evict them.
But
no apartment auctioneer would
ever want to come across Tirso Abantos.
Night Agent
Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland (composed by Gabriel Basso).
An FBI agent faces a spy case in the underworld of the White House.
In the vein of the classic series
24
because of its time trial pace,
The Night Agent features a low-ranking FBI agent
, Peter Sutherland,
in a nod to the lead agent of 24: Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer
.
He works in the basement of the White House, on the Night Action phone line.
It seems like a bureaucratic and uneventful place, but one night the phone rings and Sutherland (Gabriel Basso, his actor) learns that he must protect Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), a cybersecurity expert.
She reported an assault at her home, but the FBI staff will see how that case is linked to an attack on the Oval Room.
And the actions of a Russian mole in the underworld of presidential power.
At times Sutherland
seems like a robot, due to his infallibility and impassive character, but at others he can reflect anguish with his eyes and his low voice
: a mix of Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan, Jack Reacher (his inspirations):
a victim of bureaucracy state that will be built like a hero
to leave the White House clean.
The night agent premiered on March 23 and since then has been the leader among the ten most watched series on Netflix.
Anger
Danny Cho and Amy Lau
Danny Cho (Steven Yeun).
Netflix launched on April 6
one of the most sarcastic and outrageous series of the year
:
Bronca
.
Its plot reflects the stress and anger, on the verge of lack of control, that many people experience in the post-pandemic.
Here, a woman and a man have a run-in with their cars outside a shopping center, they yell at each other, and
their mutual violence escalates into a spiral of unbridled revenge
.
It is no coincidence that
Bronca
is compared to the
2014 film
Wild Tales by Damián Szifron.
These two frustrated and angry people are two sides of the same tension.
Steven Yeun (
The Walking Dead, Minari
) is Danny Cho, a debt-ridden independent contractor struggling with his parents, who have returned to South Korea.
Ali Wong is Amy Lau, an entrepreneur about to sell her company for a million dollar sum.
Amy Lau (Ali Wong) trying to relax with her husband.
But Danny and Amy have in common
an inner emptiness and a level of frustration that they can't quite get out of their heads and bodies
.
And their duel will seem almost like a competition.
Maybe they find the balance when they risk hurting their respective families.
They will not live a day of fury: one after another
.
To find out what the limit will be, you will have to marathon Bronca to the end.
Obsession
Anna Barton and William Farrow
This erotic thriller-drama series, featuring a forbidden love triangle, was released on April 13.
In the vein of the
Sex/Life
series , but more complex,
Obsession
introduces William Farrow, a London surgeon and diplomat who chooses Anna Barton, the girlfriend of his own son, as his lover.
Hiding appearances will lead everyone into a spiral of tension, guilt and danger
.
William Farrow and Anna Barton (Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy).
In the skin of the disloyal surgeon with his son is Richard Armitage (the protagonist of
The Hobbit
trilogy , by Peter Jackson) and the Irish Charlie Murphy (famous for
Happy Valley
and
Peaky Blinders
) plays the perverse Anna Barton.
While the cheated on wife is Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand from
Game of Thrones
).
Obsession
is a key series for its looks, for the advances that William and Farrow make for each other, and for the lack of reflection on their own mistakes once they release their sexual tension.
The viewers know that everything will get worse, but
the curiosity of seeing them make mistakes guarantees the success of the series
: the obsession is on this side of the screen.
The fiction adapts the 1991 novel of the same name, by
Josephine Hart
, which had its first film version in 1992 under the title of
Damage
(here it was called
Once in a Lifetime
), with
Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche as the compulsive lovers
.
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