The House of Flowers (2018)

Original title

La casa de las flores

Directed by

Manolo Caro

Genre

telenovela, black comedy, thriller, comedy drama

Country

Mexico

Length

3 seasons, 33 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 912 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy Mexican family runs a high-end flower shop and a struggling cabaret. Secrets and betrayals come out as they try to keep their perfect image intact.

darkly comicsarcasticdramaticfast-pacedcampywittytensemelodramatic

What happens

The House of Flowers (Spanish: La Casa de las Flores) is a Mexican dark comedy drama television series created by Manolo Caro for Netflix. It depicts a dysfunctional upper-class Mexican family that owns a prestigious floristry shop and a struggling cabaret, both called 'The House of Flowers'. The series, almost entirely written and directed by its creator, stars Verónica Castro, Cecilia Suárez, Aislinn Derbez, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Arturo Ríos, Paco León, Juan Pablo Medina, Luis de la Rosa, María León, and Isela Vega. The 13-episode first season was released on August 10, 2018. A second and third season of the series were announced in October 2018; Verónica Castro had left the cast before the show was renewed and does not appear in later seasons. Season 2 premiered on October 18, 2019, and the final season was released on April 23, 2020. A short film special called The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral premiered on November 1, 2019, and a YouTube TV special was released on April 20, 2020. The first season is exclusively set in Mexico, while the second and third seasons also feature scenes in Madrid, and the funeral special has a scene set at the Texas-Mexico border. It contains several LGBT+ main characters, with plots that look at homophobia and transphobia. Seen as satirizing the telenovela genre that it maintains elements of, it also subverts stereotypical presentations of race, class, sexuality, and morality in Mexico. Its genre has been described as a new creation, the "millennial telenovela", a label supported by Caro and Suárez. The show was generally critically well-received, also winning several accolades. Cecilia Suárez and her character, Paulina de la Mora, have been particularly praised; described as a Mexican pop icon, the character's voice has been the subject of popularity and discussion, leading into its use for the show's marketing. Aspects of the show have been compared to the work of Pedro Almodóvar, and it has been analyzed by various scholars, including Paul Julian Smith and Ramon Lobato. A feature length film continuation, The House of Flowers: The Movie, premiered on Netflix on 23 June 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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