Delirio

Started very good, keeps up your attention, until you realize it is pointless. Reminds on a typical spanish telenovela where every business involves mafia and drugs.

I started watching it because I found somewhere it is about mental ilness but not at all!

All i all, very low minded series with no point.

Delirium is an amazing book from the Colombian writer Laura Restrepo. This series beautifully portrays it with great photography and acting.

To English speakers and anyone discovering this gem, this is not a story aiming to give you a message about mental health. It is one of the greatest pieces of literature from this author mixing a story of a woman from upper class facing mental health issues with the realities of Colombian history in the 70s and 80s.

The actors do a great job with theater like interpretations. The music and ambiance also helps to immerse you in the story. The contrast of the different areas of Bogotá portraying the different social classes makes it more real.

I urge people to read the novel to have a better understanding of this beautiful adaptation.

Delirium is a literary masterpiece, rich in voices, fractured time, and psychological depth - a nearly untranslatable work.

The series is visually polished and narratively ambitious, especially in its handling of time. But it falls short emotionally.

The 1980s in Colombia were dark, chaotic - and ironically, full of sharp, irreverent humor. That crucial layer of dark Colombian wit is missing here.

What we get is a beautiful aesthetic - but not the delirium.

Worth watching, but far from capturing the raw soul of that era.

For a Colombian, the historical representation of each character is obvious. For those who are unfamiliar with it, the drama can be confusing, and it is a very challenging adaptation effort. The original novel consists of internal dialogues in first person, reflecting the mentality and idiosyncrasies of each character. Capturing this in a more linear and externalized version is really difficult. However, for those who want to pay close attention to what it is about, it can be interesting to watch and draw parallels with social groups, differences, and discrimination, as well as the emergence of violence, drugs, and mental illness, which are often trivialized in lighter series.

This is rubbish.

The characters are horrible.

There is no story.

And he shoots a horse to look good.

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