What did you think of Barbaras performance in Desenfrenadas? I honestly love her but I didnt feel her performance was strong and she just didnt give me the right tone for Rocio. I think Tessa was the best out of everyone.
How dare–you come into MY house and you–I’m kidding, I’m kidding, obviously, you can feel however you want about her, lol. Uh, I suppose I understand where you’re coming from, but I don’t agree with it. As with AAM, where she often acted against people who reacted in much larger ways, she comes across as more subdued, but I think that again fits her character pretty well. She’s the dutiful, responsible, med school daughter, always content to stay in the shadows of her sister and friends.
I thought she was perfect. As others have mentioned, her eyes are super expressive and I certainly felt that was the case here too. As with Juls, she’s more of a watchful character, observing people, and then in the last few eps she came out of her shell and how she played Rocio reflected that, more confident, less self-aware, moving more easily. And I’m not sure what you meant by the right tone for Rocio, but it was kind of funny, I was thinking to myself during the first ep that if we’re going by rich girl going into her father’s career, this is FAR closer to Barbara in real life than Juls ever was.
Actually, when I was making that trigger warning list last night and had to skim through the whole show again very quickly, I stopped, for MarVera reasons, at the strip scene and rewatched about 50 times to just absorb what was happening. The reactions, the music, the fact that we were watching a female character–the top credited cast member as a matter of fact–absolutely SPRUNG on this other woman, in this setting, with that song, with the absurd parallels between Vera and Sapo, both of them looking at Marcela with this contrasting hunger, his skeevy, hers honestly kind of unaware, the way the camera returned again and again to Vera, the urgent but gentle way Rocio made Vera sit down again, it was all just–But before I keep going on about that, the reason I bring it up right now, the reactions when they first recognize Marcela:
This wordless couple of seconds conveys everything necessary in that moment, doesn’t it? The surprise, the “obviously she’s here”, the measuring “what do we do now?”, it’s all there! I think she’s perfect as Rocio, someone who’s grown up in a restrained atmosphere, while her sister coped by rebelling, she just folded into it.
But I will agree, Tessa was ah-mazing. I honestly wasn’t looking to get into a new series this much, I thought I’d watch it almost as a chore, you know?, for Barbara, gif a bit of her face and that’d be that, but I ended up really loving it, probably one of the top two shows of the year so far for me. Give me main character Spanish-speaking wlw and I’m yours, apparently. 😛 I really didn’t need another show to be into to this degree. So many gifs to make! So many actresses to stan! There are only so many hours in the day! Oh, lol, speaking of which, the pics with Maca and Tessa gave me such strong dissonance, trying to reconcile these two fandoms, heh.
But yeah, she was very, very good as Vera. And I know I keep obsessing on the treatment of MarVera, the meta of it all, how groundbreaking that is, but I also really just the girls and their characters and dynamics and arcs, separate and together. She was so natural and genuine, totally being this character, good at turning you off at times, and almost rooting against her, at least for her comeuppance, like, “you brought this on yourself” and “what did you expect” (re: the dresses), but a second later, feeling so deeply, impossibly protective of her. The same way Marcela felt, I imagine, lol. And the way Vera felt for Marcela. Ah, I enjoyed watching this show.
Desenfrenadas was a wild ride! Loved all of them! Vera is such a little sh*t lol but I love her Marcela was incredible in the role surprised we’re not talking more about her (most of the hard scenes were with her the one with Vera also >. >) Carlota loved her storyline, hated what she had to go through but such an inspiration in the end! And Rocio (Barbie ?) the kind soul, the mom of the group, loved how fierce she is when she protects her friends (the last scene!) and her path to freedom!
I know! I–like probably many of us–started for Barbi but this was a show I’d have finished even without her.
You’re right, Marcela had a lot of really rough scenes, both her and Vera, and man, the one you’re talking about? Watching that was…I remember having my hand clenched around my water bottle so tightly, willing the scene to finish and not go back.
I feel like they could have gone lighter on that, but otherwise, I loved the mix of different stories and journeys and genres! Sometimes a funny roadtrip movie, sometimes coming of age, sometimes family drama, sometimes crime drama. And the four girls through it all. :>
Ughhh, Carly, that poor girl. The men on this show were almost all like, terrible to a bizarre degree. I could count on one hand the number of non-shitty guys. Literally. Vincente, Tobias, Mike, Vincente’s dad, that other guy from Tobias’s group. The others were…garbage. But the women were great, especially the older women! I really loved her relationship with her mom. And Carly was honestly so refreshing and great, genuine kindness driving her activism.
Ngl, when the show started, I was pretty ready to ship Rocio with Vera (they had a great friendship) or Marcela, she went out of her way to help her so much. But this was fine too. As long as she’s happy and free. I like that they’re just traveling around with their own personal doctor, lol. I actually preferred Vincente to Tobias, so I’d love to see her return and learn more from Juana.
I’m honestly also still just blown away at how they treated Vera and Marcela. Two MAIN characters, introduced in the first episode with their own central stories, seeing those stories unfold through the season and then becoming huge parts of each other’s. It was why we loved Juliantina so much as well, the richness of seeing two established, important characters Connecting, the reason we love subtext ships even now, because main character/side character ships simply can’t compare to the amount of screentime and focus main character/main character allows.To know these characters more deeply, to see them interacting, to see their effect on each other in every episode. Side characters just cannot provide that. Heh, I went to spam my friend to try to explain with the help of a very universal example:
I loved Ro’s reaction when that Argentinian guy was like I saw the pretty blonde kissing the tattoo girl haha she shipped it from the start
Hah, they all seemed like such real, actual people with their real friendships. I really loved that.
I think Ro was genuinely surprised but once the possibility presented itself, it all made sense, Vera and Marcela’s tension, Vera’s seemingly extreme reaction to Marcela running off, probably certain things about Vera herself. And so she gently brought it up with her to let her know she and Carly were fine with it. It was all just so cute, lol. I loved the banter and teasing.
