Jane the Virgin

Jane the Virgin is a series I never really expected to fall in-love with. I actually started watching it only this year 2019, which is a very hard year for me. So I'm very thankful that I found this fantastic series.

I grew up watching telenovelas (or teleseryes, as we call them here). I love the genre. So when I saw the pilot, I instantly began to like it...the style and the tone of the story. A comedy, a drama, a romance, a mystery crime, almost everything's in it. I love the creativeness of this show, and the narrator and the animations are some of the best aspects of this show that makes it unique. The cast is also fantastic, and I simply fell in-love with the characters. Unlike most telenovelas, the characters here have more depth and are more relatable. After watching the ending, it's really hard to say goodbye to them. The ending is simply perfect.

If you haven't watched this yet, please do. Be prepared to fall in-love. Be prepared for the shocking twists. Be prepared to cry, laugh, and feel different emotions all at once. This series is a gem.

The first three seasons were amazing.. But then it went downhill!

Coming from a country that airs cheap telenovela, it's refreshing to watch an improved everything of what a telenovela should be.

Jane the Virgin is one of the shows that do not care what the current audience wants to see / is interested to see. The plot is in itself far away from what a typical viewer is interested to watch. The plot is outrageous and in the nature of telenovelas. The creators made the show at high stakes but they also reaped greater rewards.

The cast is perfect. Each cast can carry a scene a telenovela would but with a very "American TV-show" feel. The fact the they are all talented, beautiful, and god-help-me-I'm-dying-of-laughter funny can't hurt.

What I hate about telenovelas (Aside from seeing them 5 times a week, yes, 5 times a week ) is the repetitiveness and pacing. That's not a problem with this show. I like how the show foreshadow scenes and repeat scenes with very minor but very impactful changes. The "American TV-show" pace is perfect too.

I just can say that if you like watching TV shows but is kind of bored of the mainstream vampires, sci-fi, superheroes, crime, teen girl, drama, kind. You might just be blown away with this gem of a show. This show need more hype.

I am heartbroken that this amazing series has ended. It was the best Latin/American telanovela ever. The story line that was created the journey is something I will never ever forget. I cried at the last few episodes. The series finale brought tears of happiness, sadness and joy. The cast was phenomenal. The entire Jane The Virgin series was impeccable thank you for an amazing 5 seasons!

Ahna E. Bali

I wasn't really pulled in by the first episode of this series, which I took to be a comedic soap-opera. But after my girlfriend insisted we watch more, I realized it's more soap parody, and while it does lead pretty heavily on its soap origins, it is so over-the-top and wacky that I've grown to really like it.

Give it a chance.