Do you guys know what a Telenovela is? Well it is like a soap opera mostly in Spanish, they were mostly filmed in Mexico at first but then they were made in Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil (These were then voiced over in Spanish) these things are classical love stories mostly with a happy ending.
Well when I was a kid in Utila which is an island and at that time had about 2,000 inhabitants TV was introduced and with it novelas, at all times, lucky we didn't have electricity 24 hours. Now these novelas usually attract housewives so depending on the timing you could end up without lunch or dinner. As for us kids it was generally recognized that any boy who watched novelas was a sissy so we just didn't watch even a single bit, you get a bad image afterwards when someone saw you watching them and boys can be cruel.
I moved from there in 1975, and went to a town where there was no TV, at least not until 1983, by this time I was a drunk so I just went through the day in a kind of haze I didn't even know what was on TV much less watch it. So novelas were not anything I ever was keen on.
But then in 1994 I was working for Dole and I was sent for 10 months to Puerto Castilla the export facility, the nearest town and where I slept is Trujillo, which is or at least was a very boring place at night so I found out that there was this great novela called MariMar which featured Thalia, whom by the way I think is beautiful. OK at night there was nothing to do there so I started watching Marimar, the next day at work we would comment about the previous night's episode. I was hooked.
And then tragedy struck, the network showing this novela was Univision and they cut all cable providers that weren't paying their dues, this included the Trujillo company. Bottomline, one week before the novela ended the cable company had to cancel Univision, I never saw the ending and was grumpy for weeks, I never again have been scammed into watching one of these things ever again.
Oh. Such a beautiful photo! Great!
I think that the soap opera from Mexico is always very long.
Yes incredibly long and time consuming, that's why I don't watch them.
Yes incredibly
Long and time consuming, that's
Why I don't watch them.
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