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La usurpadora (2019)

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Original title
La Usurpadora
Genre
telenovela
Country
Mexico
Length
1 season, 25 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 322 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A first lady named Paola Miranda discovers she has a twin sister. She then tries to switch places with her sister and take over her life.

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What happens

La usurpadora (English: The Usurper) is a Mexican television series produced by Carmen Armendáriz for Televisa. It is a reboot based on the 1998 Mexican telenovela of the same name and the first series of the anthology series Fábrica de sueños. In the series, the character Paola Miranda, the First Lady of Mexico, discovers she has a twin sister and tries to swap lives with her. The show began filming on 25 April 2019, with the first five episodes given a special pre-release online on 30 August 2019. The series then ran from 2 September to 4 October 2019, on Las Estrellas. The first and only season consisted of 25 episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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