Underplayed Gems

Pecados Ajenos (2007)

Pecados Ajenos poster
Genre
telenovela
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 167 episodes
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This telenovela follows the entangled lives of couples dealing with love, marriage, betrayal, and parenthood. It is set in Florida and centers on the relationships and conflicts among its characters.

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What happens

Pecados ajenos (A Chance to Love, literally "Other people's sins") is a Spanish-language telenovela written by Eric Vonn and produced by the United States–based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love Pecados Ajenos replaced Amor Mío in Telemundo's 10 p.m. (ET/PT) time slot on October 8, 2007. Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Islas were paired together for the first time in this saga of love, marriage, betrayal, parenthood, friendship and passion. It stars Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Islas; With the antagonistic participations of Sonya Smith, Catherine Siachoque, Ariel López Padilla, Lupita Ferrer and Sebastián Ligarde with the stellar performances of Alicia Plaza, Carlos Camacho, Mildred Quiroz, Chela Arias, Raúl Izaguirre, Maritza Rodríguez, Hannah Zea, Jencarlos Canela, Mariana Torres, Alonso Espeleta, Pablo Portillo, Roberto Plantier, Tali Duclaud and Ximena Duque. The show was launched, for example, in Poland on Puls TV and in Romania on Acasa TV. In Georgia, channel Rustavi 2 broadcast the novel. Vonn penned this urban melodrama set in West Palm Beach and Pompano Beach. It features star-crossed lovers who fall in love at the worst possible moment. The show dealt with topics such as homosexuality and homophobia in Hispanic culture, date rape and marital rape, drug addiction and alcoholism, domestic violence, prostitution, abortion, incest, the dangers of religious fanaticism, illegal immigration, mental disorders like schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder, animal cruelty, and the corruption and abuse in women's prisons. As with most of its telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Many scenes were shot on location in Virginia Key. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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