Bitter anon here again. I’m kind of a cynic because I grew up with televisa, watching them put pretty terrible things on tv. Also I get kind of snobbish because I work creating media but not the kind that would ever be on their network. At the end you’re right, the set up was so beautiful and even if I scrutinize the hell out of the script, the bottom line is that they really created a beautiful story and that’s why we all watched. Ty for the analysis and the answer, you’re always so kind.

Aw, I wasn’t thinking of you that way, I didn’t even know who you meant until you mentioned Televisa. And it’s totally fair to form an idea of something based on experience. From all accounts, Mexican viewers are stunned at Juliantina. For us Americans, the treatment is already so unusual, but for people who know the network, it’s mindblowing.

I do also get the snobby part, I had that attitude with my own local media (Pakistani) and then I saw some dramas that were actually really freaking good. And I realized how much of that snobbery, in my own case, was influenced by automatically thinking foreign, especially English-language media, was superior. And that all the little traits of a genre were part of it and not something to be tolerated. For AAM, at the beginning I’d been like, does this music really need to be playing, by the end, I was in love with that OST, lol.

But, it’s a good thing we were open to realizing we wrong to paint everything with the same brush, otherwise we’d never have given quality media a chance and really missed out. And who knows, you may have more on the way. 🙂