When we consider telenovelas, we’re fast to get nostalgic concerning the ones we grew up watching with our mothers and abuelas. We are likely to affiliate them with being an older-generation factor, with their overdramatic and likewise very predictable love narratives. But that does not imply there aren’t younger Latinx people on the market who do not tune in. It is sensible, contemplating there are audiences who do eat content material and leisure each in English and Spanish. In reality, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises established the time period “200percenters” to explain them, referring to a demographic of Latinxs who determine 100% as American and 100% as Latinx and “share the values of each cultures, are bilingual, and flawlessly bounce between cultures.” This would clarify why Emmy Award-winning telenovela “El Señor de los Cielos,” with its eighth season returning to Telemundo on Tuesday, Jan. 17, has turn into a cross-generational hit over time, interesting to a wider Latinx viewers than ever thought attainable.
The premise behind this season is the return of the present’s protagonist Aurelio Casillas, performed by telenovela star Rafael Amaya. In season seven, all of the characters believed that Casillas, the infamous drug lord, was lifeless. But he is again, together with the present’s key forged members, together with Carmen Aub as Rutila Casillas, Iván Arana as Ismael Casillas, Isabella Castillo as Diana Ahumada, and Alejandro López as Super Javi, with new characters like Casillas’s new love curiosity Mecha, performed by Africa Zavala; Rúben Cortada as Fernando Aguirre; and Yuri Vargas as Tracy Lobo.
“I really feel nice. Everything has been splendid. I’m actually stunned by a number of the characters and the story,” Amaya informed POPSUGAR on the premiere of “El Señor de los Cielos” in Mexico City on Jan. 13. “It’s been two years and a half already creating this challenge, and I’m so excited proper now to see everyone. I really feel nice. If I might describe my feelings in a single phrase, it is love. I really feel the love of everyone.”
“El Señor de los Cielos” has turn into a serious blockbuster. It’s Telemundo’s longest-running tremendous collection, produced in Mexico by Telemundo Global Studios and written by Luis Zelkowicz. The frequent operating themes in telenovelas have historically been round difficult love triangles, household dramas, and loss. But there’s been a shift since productions like “La Reina del Sur,” “Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso,” and “El Señor de los Cielos” had been launched. These extra action-based novellas are much less about love — although they do embody romance and intercourse scenes — and extra concerning the Latin American world of drug trafficking. And whereas reveals about narcos could not appear to be optimistic Latinx illustration, one factor they’re is actual. This is probably going the rationale youthful audiences discover themselves gravitating towards most of these telenovelas. It brings into query if the success of telenovelas like “El Señor de los Cielos,” which was initially launched in 2013, and “La Reina del Sur,” which was launched in 2011, impressed reveals like Netflix’s “Narcos,” written by Chris Brancato, which dropped its first season in 2015.
“I believe telenovelas had been afraid of breaking the requirements and the stereotypes, and it was at all times the everyday story. And when ‘El Señor de los Cielos’ got here out, it was like an enormous revolution and it modified the market fully.”
“I believe telenovelas had been afraid of breaking the requirements and the stereotypes, and it was at all times the everyday story. And when ‘El Señor de los Cielos’ got here out, it was like an enormous revolution and it modified the market fully,” Castillo tells POPSUGAR. “It impressed different markets and different channels to begin doing one thing related. To begin doing motion. To begin having extra intercourse scenes. It’s very daring, and this new season comes with so many issues . . . I believe narcos in Latin America is one thing that folks had been afraid to speak about till ‘El Senor de los Cielos’ got here out.”
Aub believes the way in which to method these reveals is to take into account that whereas drug trafficking in Latin America is, sadly, a actuality, “El Señor de los Cielos” remains to be only a telenovela; it is not meant to romanticize the lifetime of a drug lord.
“I believe so long as individuals keep in mind, sure, you [might] see Aurelio Casillas all good-looking with all these fairly ladies, however it’s not that actuality. The actuality is that we’re at all times operating away. We are going through the dying of our family members,” she tells POPSUGAR. “So so long as individuals do not forget that aspect of the story: [that] it is not a superb story. And this season, after all, we’re by no means going to lose the essence of what ‘El Señor de los Cielos’ is: the motion, the sexuality, and all of the characters. But we’ll see much more of the actual aspect of what being a narcos is. I believe that is going so as to add so much and remind individuals what that is about.”
The new season is filled with extra motion, surprises, and drama than ever. We’re curious to see what the destiny of Aurelio and the Casillas household will transform. Viewers younger and previous will probably be tuning on this season. Will you be watching this week?
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