Cast: Verónica Castro, Cecilia Suárez, Aislinn Derbez, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Sheryl Rubio, Paco León, Sawandi Wilson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
La casa de las flores is a satirical comedy-drama series following the story of a dysfunctional upper-class Mexican family that owns a well-known, respectable flower shop. The show has many subplots that focus on themes of family, class, race, homosexuality and loneliness.
The series revolves around a seemingly successful and idyllic family-run flower business full of dysfunctional secrets. One day, the patriarch finds out his longtime mistress has suddenly passed away and he decides to bring their children into the household alongside his current wife and family who didn’t know they existed. The series achieves a good balance between humor and drama. The change between the dramatic scenes and the humorous ones are not forced.
The acclaimed creator and director of the series, Manolo Caro, works alongside the actresses Veronica Castro (The Rich also Cry, Rosa Salvaje), Aislinn Derbez (A la Mala, Win it All) and Cecilia Suarez (Capadocia, TALES of an Immoral couple) in the dark comedy. Caro wanted to adapt a narrative style as traditional as ‘Telenovelas’ to bring it closer to the new generations. In addition to that, the director is interested to expose the problems and conflicts of nowadays and to renew the content of the genre.
One of the most controversial aspects of the series has been the participation of the Spanish actor Paco León, who plays Paulina’s transsexual husband -before José María, now María José. The intention of visualizing transsexuality on the small screen has played Caro a bad trick, because the fact of not having included an actor who was really transsexual has caused many criticisms.
In a society as conservative as Mexico and in full fight of the LGTBI community, this Netflix series presents gay and bisexual couples, as well as transsexual characters. It exposes their fears and invites them to fight.
La casa de las flores features thirteen 30-minute episodes and is already available to Netflix members.
> Mar Martínez
La Casa de las Flores – Review
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