El Dragón: Return of a Warrior

Normally I would give a show like this 6, to max 7 stars, if I would even watch it, because 6-7 stars means boring. This show isn't boring at all though. To me it's worth 8 stars because it does keep me hooked on (despite some very annoying characters like 'the female chauffeur' (omg: shut up singing and 'being innocent', we get the point) but also the 'strange IT girl' (heavy over the top, if that's what 'strange' means in Mexico: wow... ). The brother is like 'rain man' - almost every character is "over the top" and being a persiflage of someone.

Another annoying thing: every scene lasts abt 2 till 3 minutes, and there are about 10 story-lines crossing eachother and of course connecting with eachother.

Yet .....

It keeps me absolutely hooked on!! The conversations are appearing quite natural to me, constantly there are intriges going on an danger - the drugscriminals look and behave authentic to me as how I immagine these people would behave/ look, without becoming an annoying cliché. Yes, every evening we watch abt 3 shows and loving it!

Yesterday my husband and I said to eachother: when missing one episode, it's almost impossible to reproduce all the events happend during that episode.

Sign that it's a soap opera: 1. crappy acting 2. anytime something happens, loud music starts 3. improbably stories. always family backstabbing, innuendo's and lies that everyone falls though. 4. innocent girl or boy who gets mixed up in crap 5. super hero who has to be the bad guy, yet comes off as a good guy

All in all... acting was very stereotypical of Mexican cartels... If the main guy is so smart,. then why almost everyone around him is so insecure and jealous in 1 way or the other.

They also say 30 words when 4 would be enough... i.e building to a dramatic part and then dramatize it. 37 or so ep in s1 could be done in 16 or so, if they were cut out the "miguel, i have to tell you something, blah blah blah for 2 minutes.... darth vader in luke's father..." if you know what I mean...

After s1, I really had enough...

Love the series but extremely disappointed with the end of season 2 -I don't think I will be watching season 3 (if there is any).

Not much of plot, but then the direction, acting, locations are absolutely fabulous! Great looking actors as well!

Just finished binge watching this series and yes some of it is a bit OTT but no more than any other series out there that is fictional. I loved the characters, hated the mean characters, wanted to punch Epigmenio, Tacho, Chisca and Jimena in their faces - definitely had the villains and the heroes- need to see Miguel finally allow himself to love Adela - a bit of a telinovella if that's how its spelt - give me more !!