Caray, Caray!

 . . . starts Monday night at 8:00 EDT.  It is a remake of the 2014 Argentine telenovela "Somos familia" It is a family drama with a blend of friendship,  romance,  humor, jealousy, revenge, machismo, industrial espionage,  sabotage,  and even murder all against the backdrop of Motocross!!!  Will we have to trade in our beanies for helmets???  Anyway, the  cast is huge but full of familiar faces.

What follows is what I gleaned from Televisa, VIX and Univision.  I have tried to include all of the characters' names as I have discovered them so far and the actors representing them.  This list is by no way inclusive of all of the characters. 

Labels: Televisa, Univision, VIX

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2025 continues to present new notable Spanish language productions.  Here are some current ones that I enjoyed enough to recommend as well as a few more  from the past few years. 

VIX/YOUTUBE: LAS ESTRELLAS  CHANNEL 

Sólo para mujeres (Only for Women) is a documentary (Episode one: "Los pantalones de quitarse los pantalones" free  onYouTube: Las Estrellas Channel/ remaining three episodes on VIX. ) Episode one is worth seeing on its own. 

Sólo para mujeres is an in depth examination of the founding and creation of the Mexican male strip show Sólo para mujeres  by Alexis Ayala and Sergio Mayer back in 1998.  You will be surprised to see who some of the performers were including Jorge Salinas. When I saw the ladies in  the telenovela  "La fea más bella" (2005) go to see "Sólo para mujeres" in the novela and Sergio Mayer showed up as a dancer (he played Luigi the art director in LFMB), I had no idea that "Sólo para mujeres" was a real-life phenomenon of its own.

Labels: Las Estrellas, MAX, Netflix, ROKU, streaming, Televisa, Univision, VIX, YouTube

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