Possibly you’ve heard that Determined Housewives is getting a reboot. Possibly you haven’t. Both manner, it most likely didn’t register excessive in your inner checklist of Necessary Information Gadgets.
At the very least, I’m assuming it didn’t come forward of “New Pope” and “Oh God Why Is The President Doing That Once more.” But it surely’s true! Kerry Washington of Scandal fame is rebooting Determined Housewives, as a result of good reveals can’t simply finish in satisfying methods anymore and should at all times be exhumed till everyone seems to be bored. Additionally, Washington will need to have heard that govt producing a collection or film is the one manner actors could make any cash lately.
And whereas Washington highlights how “new” the collection is, the official description suggests in any other case:
Per Deadline, “Wisteria Lane is described as a enjoyable, attractive, darkly comedic cleaning soap/thriller … set amongst a bunch of 5 very completely different mates and generally frenemies who all reside on a picture-perfect cul de sac referred to as ‘Wisteria Lane.’ On the floor, all of the Wisteria neighbors live the dream: stunning properties, attractive households, shiny SUVs within the driveway. However behind these white-picket fences and smiling Insta posts are SECRETS.”
That’s not new. That’s actually simply the outline of the unique Determined Housewives.
If the information of yet one more pointless remake has you rolling your eyes, don’t fret. You don’t want to look at Determined Housewives 2.0! The religious successor to Determined Housewives already exists and it comes full with a recent story and set of characters. It even comes with a brand new language! It’s referred to as La Casa de las Flores, or The Home of Flowers, and it’s a Mexican quasi-telenovela on Netflix.
Right here’s three the explanation why you must watch.
Satire sharper than Woman Gaga’s Born This Approach cheeks
Identical to Determined Housewives skewers cleaning soap operas, La Casa de las Flores skewers telenovelas. It wields its melodrama paradoxically and with aptitude, punctuating jokes and elevating the present’s stakes. This by no means grows wearisome and as an alternative results in some wildly entertaining quarrels and misunderstandings. In the meantime, it additionally satirizes the Mexican elites on the heart of its story. It pokes enjoyable at their social attitudes and exposes their hypocrisies, similar to Determined Housewives does with the American higher center class.
Paulina’s voice
It’s onerous to decide on only one iconic character from Determined Housewives, however gun to my head, I’d decide Bree Van de Kamp. Prim and correct to a fault, Bree embodies self-righteous weaponized WASPdom to a tee. Additionally, that hair. An ideal Omega image.
And simply your luck, La Casa de las Flores has its personal iconic creation within the type of Paulina de la Mora (Cecilia Suárez). She doesn’t have an iconic look, per se, except you rely her perpetually stoic expression. However her voice! Paulina talks in such a uniquely hyper-enunciated cadence that you simply’ll discover it even should you don’t perceive any Spanish. Actually, after I first watched La Casa de las Flores in the beginning of my Spanish language journey a number of years in the past, I requested my tutor if Paulina was meant to characterize some obscure slow-speaking area of Mexico. Nope, she’s simply cray.
Woke illustration, henny
La Casa de las Flores is an excellent lewk for Spanish language tv, and I’m not simply speaking about its fashionable aesthetic and fierce wardrobe division. I’m speaking, after all, about its queer illustration. There’s homosexual daddy pleasure within the type of Diego (Juan Pablo Medina), bi pleasure within the type of Julián de la Mora (Darío Yazbek Bernal), and trans pleasure within the type of María José Riquelme (Paco León). (María José is Paulina’s former husband and now former spouse.) On high of that, there are a number of scandalous steamy same-sex scenes (alliteration unintended, hand to Devil). If that doesn’t make this collection a religious successor to Determined Housewives, then I don’t know what’s! But additionally, it’s only a very cool growth throughout the Spanish-speaking TV sphere, provided that constructive representations of queer folks have been traditionally absent in that house. That’s to not point out the truth that its resolution to present María José storylines unrelated to her gender identification is nothing wanting revolutionary for such a present.
So, to sum issues up … and I’ll say this very slowly, similar to Paulina …
You …. ought to watch … La Casa de las Flores … now!