They face big conflicts and fight back. They never turn the other cheek or falter in the face of adversity. They go all the way, even at the risk of damaging and injuring themselves, trying to impose their will. These are the emblematic characters of some of the most popular Netflix series: 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 series of Netflix in the country: Pasión de Gavilanes, Till Money Do Us Part, La Reina del Sur, Entrevías, The Night Agent, Bronca AND Obsession.
The Passion of the Hawks Norm Elizondo
“Danna Garcia has the best character in The Passion of the Hawks”, commented fans on social media. This choral Colombian telenovela it had come out to enormous success in 2003 and only came back in 2022: it was 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 alleged 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 Garcia). They suffered everything and rested for nineteen years.
Now, in Pasión de Gavilanes 2, huge eyes rest once again on Norma Elizondo, who has three children with Juan Reyes: the 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… Norma Elizondo will define the tone of Pasión de Gavilanes with her sensuality, her elegance, her intelligence and above all with her violent character. in a world of aggressive men. She is the real head of the Kings clan.
Until money do us part Alessandra Maldonado
The hook pose is classic: a low-income young man tries to make an upper-class girl fall in love with him. Alessandra Maldonado (Carmen Villalobos, the villain of coffee with the scent of a woman) and Rafael Méndez (Sebastián Martínez) come from opposite worlds and will live an unconventional, not to mention toxic, love story: they are constantly attacking and attracting each other after having a car accident.
This left them with a million dollar debt and the butt for their love-hate relationship. The psychology of Alejandra Maldonado will be exposed immediately, little in line with these times of female emancipation. “She’s hysterical and moody”it was defined by Carmen Villalobos herself.
Alejandra Maldonado discovers she is not attracted to the alleged love of her life. With Rafael Méndez, however, she will experience everything: jealousies, disagreements and a thirst for revenge that will put them to the test. Will they ever have peace?
Until money do us part It 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 coffee with the scent of a woman and I’m Betty, the ugly one). But Netflix relaunched it on October 19, 2022 and it spent 25 weeks in the Top 10 in Argentina.
Queen of the South – Season 3 Teresa Mendoza
A heroine who uses guns, deals drugs and seeks revenge on her narco-rivals: corrupt politicians and businessmen.
These are the signs of The Queen of the South, this 2011 crime series based on the novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte. Eleven years after its inception, 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 rededicated Kate del Castillo, already a reference point for the most intense telenovelas in Mexico. The new 60 episodes kick off four years after the lavish close of Season 2.
It was when Teresa Mendoza had to leave her relaxed life with her daughter Sofía (Isabella Sierra). She was identified by the criminal military forces and fled.
Now Teresa must face the most dangerous mission of her life: to leave everything behind, even at the risk of abandoning her drug throne as “Queen of the South”.
In the brand new episodes was imprisoned in a maximum security prison in the United States after the murder of three officers from the DEA. But then he escapes and forms a power alliance that spans several countries to take on law enforcement. How far south can he reign?
Entrévias – Season 2 Tirso Abantos
What can an old man do to take care of his granddaughter? Carry weapons, defend the neighborhood from gangs and beat up anyone who gets in his way. This is the view of life that Tirso Abantos, the former military grandfather of the Spanish series, has entreviaswhose second season premiered on March 1 and spent six weeks in the Netflix Top 10 chart.
Tirso Abantos (José Coronado, the same actor from Living Without Permission) he is a dark, but moral character, who tries to protect her niece Irene Sánchez Abantos (Nona Sobo, Spaniard born in Thailand) from drug traffickers. In the new eight episodes of entrevias delves into the psychology of Abantos, who fought in Bosnia in the 1990s and now runs a hardware store.
Her niece Irene’s problem is that she can’t escape her dangerous boyfriend, Nelson Gutiérrez (Colombian Felipe Londoño). At first he tried to escape the siege of drugs just around the corner, but he always has relapses.
Between a vigilante, a vigilante at all times and a defender to the letter from his neighborhood of Entrevías, now the old curmudgeon takes care of his neighbors to protect them from a real estate investment that threatens to evict them. But no apartment auctioneer would want to bump into Tirso Give up sometimes
the night agent Peter Sutherland
An FBI agent takes on a spy case in the White House underworld. In the vein of the classic series 24 for his pace against time, The Night Agent introduces a low-ranking FBI agentPeter Sutherland, in a nod to 24’s lead agent: 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 quiet place, but one night the phone rings and Sutherland (Gabriel Basso, his actor) discovers that he has to protect Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), an expert in computer security.
He reported an assault on his home, but the FBI staff will see how that case relates to an attack on the Oval Office. And the actions of a Russian mole in the underworld of presidential power.
Sometimes Sutherland He looks like a robot, in his infallibility and deadpan disposition, but in others he can reflect anguish with his gaze and low voice: a mix of Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan, Jack Reacher (his inspirations): a victim of state bureaucracy who will build himself up as a hero to clean up the White House.
The Night Agent premiered on March 23 and has since been the leader among the ten most-watched series on Netflix.
Line Danny Cho and Amy Lau
Netflix launched on April 6th one of the most sarcastic and outrageous series of the year: Line. Its storyline reflects the stress and rage, on the verge of out of control, that many people feel post-pandemic. Here, a woman and a man crash their cars outside a shopping mall, yell at each other and their mutual violence will turn into a spiral of unbridled revenge.
It is not a case that Line compare it to the movie wild tales, from 2014, by Damián Szifron. These two frustrated and angry people are two faces of the same tension. Steven Yeon (The Walking Dead, Minari) is Danny Cho, a debt-ridden independent entrepreneur who is dragging a conflict with his parents, who are forced to return to South Korea.
Ali Wong as Amy Lau, an entrepreneur about to sell her company for a million dollars.
But Danny and Amy have in common an inner emptiness and a level of frustration that you don’t know how to get out of your head and body. And their duel will almost feel like a competition. Perhaps they find balance when they risk hurting their respective families. They won’t live a day of fury: one after another. To find out what the limit will be, you will have to run the Bronca marathon to the end.
Obsession Anna Barton and William Farrow
This erotic drama-thriller series, featuring a forbidden love triangle, was released on April 13th. In line with the series Sex/Lifebut more complex, Obsession features William Farrow, a London surgeon and diplomat who chooses his son’s fiancée, Anna Barton, as his mistress. Hiding appearances will lead everyone into a spiral of tension, guilt and danger.
In the role of the surgeon disloyal to his son is Richard Armitage (protagonist of the trilogy of The Hobbitby Peter Jackson) and Irishman Charlie Murphy (famous for Happy valley and from Peaky Blinders) embodies the perverted Anna Barton. While the betrayed wife is Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand from game of Thrones).
Obsession it’s a series key to its looks, the advances William and Farrow make towards each other, and the lack of reflection on their mistakes once they release their sexual tension. Viewers know 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 Hartwhich had its first film release in 1992 under the title of harm (here it was called Once in a lifetime), with Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche as compulsive lovers.
Source: Clarin
