La terre des femmes

Watched the first two episodes this week and both my husband and I are loving it. It's light, funny, clever and has gorgeous scenery. And having the show be in both English and (primarily) Spanish gives it real sense of authenticity. And I'm confused about the viewers who have a problem with the language choices, since Apple has been advertising this as a bilingual show from the beginning.

The cast are all great, Eva Longoria is as entertaining as ever and Santiago Cabrera is always a delight to watch in anything.

Pour yourself a glass of red and get swept away in the scenery and the sense of family and community.

Eva Longoria wanted escapist TV as she found the current TV shows too stressy and scarily too real. I couldn't agree more with her. There are not enough light shows out there. I've often found myself going back and watching Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids, Emily in Paris etc and so was absolutely thrilled to see a trailer for this new series Land of Women.

She has absolutely achieved her goal with Land of Women! I absolutely love it. I love the mix of English and Spanish dialogue. The characters are great and filming locations just make me want to board a plane to the Catalonia region to explore.

Thank you Eva. And fingers crossed this series is renewed.

I love that they speak spanish in this comedy it reminds me of desperate housewives gabys character which is refreshing, i always wanted more. So far im hooked on the plot, great story so far. My only gripe is the daughters character doesnt seem to be a great actor the voice pitches are all over the place. Like pick a tone it really takes me out of immersion because i keep getting annoyed with the sudden shifts in her vocal pitch and tone. I get that the character is trans but if jewels from euphoria can do it honey, so can you. The story seems exciting and they sure are in for an adventure, Im looking forward to watching the rest of the season! Im hoping its more than one!

The role of her daughter was just not convincing for me and her voice kept cracking. She was super snippy and not seasoned enough to carry the show with Eva. The dynamic was not there with this trio, I found it not funny. I need to be convinced of kinship and these casted roles were too far fetched with no dynamics. I love Eva in Desperate House Wives (all sorts of dynamics there) and that is why I tuned into this show. The show did not meet my expectations, this show actually turned me off. I could not get past the first episode and Im bilingual so I understood every word. Perhaps known and proven actors along side her in this role would have propelled the energy significantly.

Trying to look at this through the lenses of a good script and good cinatorgaphy etc and you're going to hate it!

If you watch it to escape the news and outside noise and think of it like a Hallmark movie then your fine.

It's a very predictable storyline. There are ridiculous scene changes with dramatic rain all of a sudden, make not feel soap opera y. But the scenery is nice and it's lovely to have a bilingual movie introducing the world to Catalonia.

Enjoy that part of you're looking for a silly escape. Don't try to focus on the other things that make this a made for tv movie style. It's a filler for the network I'm sure. I don't think anyone in production expected this to win an award.