This is not a Netflix original, although it started like one. The first episodes were full of thrills and emotional roller coasters. Teresa (Alice Braga) just wanted out after the love of her life was murdered, but that is not how it works when working with "bad hombres". Through luck and happenstance, she manages to escape the boss's murderers and she ends up in the hands of the boss's wife. Lucky for Teresa, the wife, played by a smoldering Veronica Falcon, older but sexy as can be for a woman with murder in her eyes.
The wife keeps Teresa and lies to her husband, as she is making plans to steal the business from her husband. She is settled in Dallas, Texas, and he is in Sinaloa, Mexico. He wants to become legitimate and become a governor, she is fully interested in keeping her business booming, at whatever costs. For no reason, trust is slowly given to Teresa and soon she is running drugs for the wife in the Dallas area. She keeps being in the right place at the right time, and soon has enough trust that she is making deliveries on her own.
Teresa has a couple things going on, first her boyfriend gave her a book, which she managed to hide before capture and her best friend (Brenda) who is not very bright, and kind of dumb, actually. Teresa is constantly trying to keep them all alive, and it becomes even more emotionally involving because Brenda is dumb but she has a little boy, and you can feel she isn't going to make it all season.
Teresa sees herself in a sort of vision, her alter ego keeps telling herself to fight and survive another day, soon she will be on top. Several times, it looks pretty bad, and her alter ego almost summons her to be more than she is, when she is getting raped, her lifeless body almost given up entirely fights one last time and reaches for a gun, blasts the bad guy in the side of the head, and thus makes her escape.
My problem with the storylines is I live in Texas, you can't run from Dallas to the border and back and have enough energy to act like now what are we doing the rest of the afternoon? That is a draining at least 14 hour trip, and they do it constantly on the show.
I can respect the aspect of the mafia families, but when the wife starts getting desperate, she starts making some shitty decisions, such as when they decide to kill the Florida guys. That was just sloppy and just to steal from them, there is no honor in that. Then her insistence on killing "Birdman" was also shitty, as the reason she was so comfortable and powerful was because her husband provided all the dirty muscle work. The best part was when her daughter shat all over her, telling her "you hate dad more than you love me, and you are not protecting me, you are just using me as a prize to hurt dad. Why couldn't it be enough for you to stay with dad, to be my mother? Why did you have to abandon me and go to Dallas, to prove that you are a strong woman? Be a mother, be a wife! That should be enough. Instead of the daughter of a governor, you just made me the daughter of a drug lord, thank you."
By the end of the season, Husband and wife have gone to war, Teresa has the book and insists if she has to continue she will no longer just be a pawn, she will be more, Brenda is dead, and just for shits and giggles, Guerro, Teresa's love is alive, looks to be in a CIA/FBI building like he was working undercover, but he identifies Teresa, so we shall see what happens.
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