REVIEW - Looks like 10/10 for now!! (SPOILERS)
It's AMAZING. I've haven't seen it whole so far. I only watched until Franco shown Fernanda a tape of Liliana confessing she saw Barbara killing Montserrat. For now it seams that besides Cuando Seas Mia and La Mujer de Judas, this is the BEST TELENOVELA I've seen, the best one from Televisa as I reacall.
Fernando Colunga and Silvia Navarro are the BEST couple I've seen. They're both amazing actors and they had excellent script to work with. Lucero is also superb as the main villainess (hide Gilda, hide!).
The most intersting thing is that it's UNPREDICTABLE and most of all ORIGINAL. The charcaters act more human (even Artemio and Barbara) and they are not flawless, they're reactions are natural and you can easilly connect with them.
The love story of two leads is sweet and romantic, but still, the chemistry and ineraction between them is more than just sexual tension, or childish bland looks on faces, like it usually happens in soaps. Congratualtions to Fernando, Silvia and the writers for it. They are soo good together and individually.
Although, the love story is vital to the whole plot, it's not it's sole center and the obstacules being ridicolous and unnesessary like most times. Hatred between Eduardo/Franco and Barbara Greco is also as important and as interesting as the love story with Fernanda.
Thank God, for once a leading male character is GREAT!! He is not a woosie or a spineless 'Ken' who gets cought-up in some villainesses web. No sir! He is as clever and as powerful as Barbara, if not even more. He deserves the respect of all who sorround him and he is excellent as the protagonist.
Fernanda is beautiful and the thing I love mostly about her is that Silvia has found a way to portray her as 'one of us'. Unlike Franco and Barbara, she is not led by vengance, she is very intellingent young woman, but really confused about the whole story. She is emotioanal, but not too much, yet strong, but not too much. She succeeded to be not too 'feminist, angry at men-type who alomst violently wants to be independant' or 'slow and simple country girl who passive agressivelly wants to stay poor and ignorant'. Fernanda is mybe the crown jewel in Silvia's superb carreer so far.
Lucero has portrayed the best villain I've seen in a while, maybe ever. You can totally relate to her and even feel for her, yet you know she's capable of the worst. She is not over the top (Thank you Lucero and Alejandro Frutos, director of photography) in 'nottie-zooms' soap villains usually have, instead she really believably plays a good person, while we hear her really thoughts in the head. Excellent.
The 3 main characters are also 3 best and most active characters in the show, which is fabulous, and really rare in Mexican soaps. Some co-stars usually tend to outshadow the leads, at least for me. BUT, I just have to express how AMAZING were they ALL!!
First, I was thrilled to see talented and beautiful Dominika Paleta as something else than a b. And she rocked! Even in an A production movie, that would be an Oscar winning portrail of a mentally ill person.
Sergio Sendel was excellent as arrogant and materialist Damian, husband of a main heroine. The really original and great about their realationship was that she was the one who (althought actually in love with her childhood sweethart) tried to save the marriage, while he only wanted her money and got trapped in Barbara's scheemes. He's def. not a good person, although he was also kind of a regular ass you can see in real life, not over the top. I alredy got tired of villain being unmotivatedly obsessed with main heroine.
Love story between Santiago (Carlos de la Mota) and Aurora (Adriane Diaz) is soo sweet! They are sticking together no matter what and the are great for each other. Aurora is so cute and although usually too good characters annoy me, this time I just LOVE her and Santi.
Real notable plus for amazing Mario Ivan Martinez, who plays Steve, not only for the role, but also for his maestral accent as an American, which, as I reacall is not only rare in soaps, it's the presedan!
Erika (Marisol del Olmo) is very beautiful and the best part is - she's the main hero's girlfriend, and...gasp! - not a villain! Great move!
Jacinto and Margarita are great together and their scenes make total sense and we finally have a couple of charcaters which are ... married through the whole time without cheating or braeking up. And the manage to be notable and great.
Veteran actor Rogelio Guerra is excellent in playing both Gonzalo and Artemio Bravo, the antagonist. His acting and make-up made it easilly believe those are actually two different charcates, bravo!
Very origial is the love triangle of Anibal, Priscilla and Vladimir, because not one of them is entirelly good or bad and all three of them have a potential to go either way. Can't wait to see.
Also, there are no useless comic co-charcaters, which excist only to prolong the plot. BIG plus. Most of the characters are not driven only by cheap romances/sex plots or nor they serve only to help protagonists end-up together. They are all belivable, even characters like Rafael del Villar's charcater are not too over the top, and I like them.
I really hope it ends as good as it is for now!! I watching till the end, and as it seams, I'll order it on DVD! 10/10. Something other soaps could look upon!!