Dark Desire

Yes Maite Perroni is beautiful, yes I like series with plot twists. However this series over uses flashbacks, imagined story arcs and scene repetitions. It's very confusing and I found myself irritated by the characters. The casting is quite bad and the interaction between the main characters seems forced. Not worth your time. It's a Mexican soap with nudity and sex scenes.

I expected some silly soap opera. It turned out to be much better than expected. Sex scenes are not overwhelming and quite beautiful, but it is not about sex. It is an attempt to look into the driver of our desires that we can't resist. Someone said it is predictable, I disagree. Only closer to the end I started to see who is the perpetrator. Scenes repeat is a bit annoying and imaginary scenes are also confusing. But overall it is watchable. Very good messages : "There are 2 types of relationships in life: those that inspire us to give our best and those that destroy us. Those that give us peace and those that take it away. Why the hell we choose wrong most of the time. Why do we choose type of love that tears us apart. Society and stereotypes push us toward that chaos. It teaches us that pain is fun. And it isn't. That is not true. Pain is perverse. It is exciting. But it hurts. We have to earn again to love. It is our duty."

The acting is descent. I just don't think Maine P. Is old enough to be the mom... or the daughter May have been cast too old...

As someone else described (in paraphrase) starts off well then gets stupid. Over use of flashback and delusional thinking to depict an unreliable narrator. It has so many characters "flashing back" to moments that didn't happen, it's hard to tell them from the flashbacks/events that did. I don't know if the makers had to meet a minimum episode requirement, but the use of repeated scenes and the utter stupidity of some of the exchanges seem like filler.

There are a few other noticeable flaws in writing. "Are you married?" (asked while the woman is wearing a bridal set with a huge diamond.) And the final pool scene - WTF happened there?!?!?

My bigger peeve with the story is the depiction of - for the vast majority of the story - otherwise intelligent, accomplished women as becoming stupid after a good f*%&$k. On the other hand, the story closes out pondering that plot point, so, much like with the flashbacks, it feels like you - the viewer - were punk'd. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Reminds me a bit of those B horror films that are so bad, they're good. The makers knew this and are laughing all the way to the bank. Which is why it gets an 7 instead of 5.

Overall, the mystery is gripping enough to make one want to hang around to see whodunit and why. But the urge to do something else while watching or fast forwarding is overwhelming.

Oh, and that whodunit. Who = resolved. Well, at least one of them. Why = not so much - for all of them. Which sets the stage for season 2.

If you can figure this one out, you're a genius. Even with triple replays of scenes, we still don't know who did what to whom. An episode shows us how someone died, another shows a completely different version. The moral behind the film, I guess, is that reality is ever what it appears to be. Which doesn't much help us the unsuspecting viewers. The ending suggests a second season may be down the road, but, Dios! I hope not.