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Sorry to tell you but Mateo committed telenovela suicide today: the unwritten rule of never threatening the main villain and disclosing him your plans. AAM writers would really, really surprised me if he actually survives the show.

Yeah, I don’t feel like my guy is long for the world now. Too naive by half. That’s the problem with him and Susana, they think they see how bad people are but they’re still too good-hearted to believe HOW bad they are. Drinking something Johnny gave you?? Going to him and telling him your plans? What kind of… 

It’s actually kind of interesting that if you go along with the theory that in telenovelas, good people get good endings, and bad people bad, then those two should survive. But they’re not main enough, they’re going to be collateral damage. The only two characters left, defined by their goodness, are Juliantina. Guille had his part in the holdup and Renata is…is she really even on the show aside from being Guille’s love interest? And her character’s not had to be in the same position of making decisions like Juliantina, she doesn’t get to show her kindness and integrity in the same way. So at this point, those two need a happy ending just to make sure this telenovela isn’t depressing as heck.

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I love that this is a novela and the formula is good guys end good, that’s the standard, I’ll always be grateful for them making a wlw relationship when it could have been pretty easy to go with an het couple

You know, I think this might legit be one of the reasons behind why Juliantina is so good. 

Telenovelas lean into romance and so-called cheesiness and straightforward stories in a way a lot of other media thinks it’s too good for. English-language media’s so cynical and seems to hate for people to be happy and left satisfied. Combine that with some weird obsession with needing to be shocking and unpredictable and you get TV that’s hard to watch as a character-lover. 

That doesn’t mean that all telenovelas–or indeed, all makers of this kind of media, so Bollywood, kdramas–will automatically do well by their LGBT characters or relationships, there’s still so many other biases to get over, but once they include them, there’s hopefully not the same need to include a stray bullet twist where the victim is all too obvious. 

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omg anon,just made people think that juliantina,flozmin,and brazilian couple clarina e limantha have set too high a standard *yo muero* *cries in spanish*

I don’t know that last one at all? If it’s good, I’ll watch. And I’m still lucky to have Flozmin left.

But man, I feel like it’s going to be really hard to get over Juliantina. It’s telling that people don’t even necessarily want another season or spinoff because what made this special will be so hard to capture again. And even if by some unprecedented miracle, these actresses with their phenomenal chemistry were cast opposite each other again, there’d be no guarantee that the writing and directing would be there. The acting, writing, directing, every necessary component came together in the best way to make this one story so good. 

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Anon who watches and talks about Juliantina with her Mom here!! My Mom told me something that I did not know after we watched Lupe’s reaction to Juliantina. When I came out to her, about a year ago, she was confused but all she said was okay as long as I’m happy she is happy because that’s all she wanted but in our culture it’s not easy to accept and I was shocked that it was so easy with her. What I didn’t know was she went through a whole thing with our extended family and literally…

…purge all the ones that she knew would say or do something to shame me for it. I was wondering why we didn’t go to this and that’s person children’s birthdays and now I just want to cry. She felt even more strongly after watching that scene because as a mother you need to protect your child and not to be the one hurting them. If it’s something you don’t understand, than you need to learn from them. She know wants to adopt Juliantina and I don’t know how I can deserve such a Mother???

Oh wow, that makes me want to cry! I love your mom, that’s such a kind thing of her to do. Mine, at least, and so many others, are so image-conscious and try to bend their kids to fight society’s expectations, while your mom took steps to keep you safe. That’s really, really great, and you’re so lucky.

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What could make juls drink? I’m been thinking about that a lot. Is HC obviously she’s not going to do it

Well, I don’t think anything? She literally doesn’t like the smell or taste, what comfort would she find in it? 

I know people have floated theories that maybe she associates it with Chino and his behavior and perhaps even other trauma, which then presumes she keeps away from it more for fear of its effect than any actual dislike toward it, but she literally makes a face when it’s given to her. 

She’s not one to give in to peer pressure and not even Val at her most winsome could persuade her to try, so I don’t know how she could even acquire the taste and get over the initial revulsion.