Season 2 WTF?!

We’re 6 episodes in with season 2, and it’s getting overly bizarre and unbelievable!

The daughter, Isabella, needs more acting experience or lessons - she’s bad 🤦🏼‍♀️Camila and her throaty, whispering voice is working my last nerve, too. 😖😆

And this psycho Bolivian drug supplier, WTF??!! El Psycho.

Please tell me it gets better…

Teresa annoys me more and more in this season. Her strategies in the way that she moves makes me so irritated. She thinks she’s so untouchable puts no one else in consideration, except for herself.

Was pote ever working for camila ? Or was he secretly working for teresa ? I do love pote and how protective he is of teresa but he also teaches her lessons too.

Why did Kelly Anne change her pronunciation of Culiacan (con like on) to Culiacan (caan like an) in season 5 episode 6?? I wasn't sure if someone posted this already but I found it so funny because she pronounced it right in season 2 but then in season 5..?! What happened😂 Did anyone also find this a little bit weird? I also know that sometimes the actor who plays James changed the pronunciation of Teresa's name (Ter-eeza/ Ther-eh-sa) but he's British so I just overlooked it but this one is a little harder to overlook seeing as she's American and she pronounced it correctly once before...

I’m asking because Arturo Pérez-Reverte is going on my list of favorite authors. I finished another of his books yesterday, The Nautical Chart, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Both these books are just incredible. I’ve been dreaming about them, for god’s sake. I need to read his books in their original Spanish as well as English (and maybe Portuguese), because wow. Those translators are so damn good (I’m speaking as a translator myself). I read somewhere that Alice Braga carried around a copy of The Queen of the South on set, which is just awesome. The book is so different from the show and they’re both excellent.

Makes no sense to me in the digital age so try to rationalize it for me plz.

What the hell? I can't pinpoint exactly when that happened but I'm thinking a couple of weeks ago. Queen of the South, and a few other shows were the only reasons why I kept it. Now, the shows I like are either gone or effin locked. I just wish I had watched it one more time before it became locked :(

Does anyone know where I can find the children's el santo masks?

It took me way too long, but I finally finished season 2. Again, these thoughts are in no particular order; this is just me having fun.

-Episode 3 was a lot of fun. Very intense with Teresa getting bit by the scorpion and James getting captured. That car chase scene was straight out of Mad Max and I loved it. That being said, I did laugh pretty hard at the Wilhelm scream.

-That dentist scene in episode 5 was harder to watch than the scene in season 1 where she’s throwing up drugs. I just hate dentist stuff (not looking forward to getting my wisdom teeth out) so this was a scene that was excruciating. Wimpy, I know.

-El Santo’s cult in Episode 6 is terrifying! The way everyone is all ready to kill them and then the little girls grab onto Teresa, James and Guero and all is calm again! I also loved the scene where La Capitana is choking out Teresa. The blood and sweat and sheer violence! So good.

-When Teresa and Loya team up in Episode 11. Holy shit, Alice’s acting! Look at how big her eyes are! Pure terror. She and Loya make one hell of a team. Also, she and Kelly-Anne are super cute together.

-Isabela is growing on me. Mostly I just feel bad for her because her parents are awful people who never should have had a child. I hate Guero so much. Just throw the whole Guero away. Pote is just so much fun; I get a kick out of him. The soundtrack for this show is great! I’ve been listening to One Way or Another over and over again.

-This is just a personal grievance, but I really wish Teresa were bi and ended up with a girlfriend. It’s weird to me how everyone in this show is straight, especially considering that Alice Braga is bi, has a girlfriend, and for almost the entirety of the show’s runtime was dating (and then married to) Bianca Comparato. Like yeah, I get that she didn’t write the show, and maybe the showrunners thought that putting queer people in it would be too political or distracting or something, and it’s not like it ruins the show or anything, but as a lesbian, it sticks out

Sorry for rambling! All in all, a lot of fun. If any one who worked on the show is here, you guys did a great job!

Creepy AF!

Obviously the original telenovela and the American show ended up taking two completely different paths, but both seem to conclude (at first) with Teresa settling down somewhere tropical and off the grid.

However, LRDS came back like 10 years later with a sequel series. Teresa’s daughter Sofia is kidnapped by former drug rivals and she’s forced to come out of retirement.

I know it’s not gonna happen but wouldn’t it be sweet if the USA show was able to resurge in a couple years and we could follow up on Teresa’s life? Maybe someone finds out she’s alive and kidnaps her child (or Pote’s if she doesn’t have one herself.)

I would just die if this show came back lol sorry I’m rewatching it and I don’t want it to end (again)…USA hear me! Netflix or HBO or somebody pick it up if not, I beg 😩😩

Rewatching this show after a couple years. Just finished season 3 episode 6 “Los Enamorados” the one where Güero dies.

Did they remove scenes from this episode retroactively? Because I distinctly remember Teresa and Güero bantering about Taco Bell in the back seat of the car before he passes. I know they go to Taco Bell and stuff but there are definitely some lines removed cause I remember Teresa laughing and stuff with Güero.

Am I going crazy?

I absolutely love this series for the most part but I have some gripes and wanted to share.

1. No one can convince me Camilla is not Indian, lol. I can't get over the fact that she looks like an Indian (from India) and nothing like a latin woman. Also, this may be harsh but I think the actress playing Camilla is just not good. Her odd voice sounds like she is trying too hard to be a bad bitch but she misses the mark by a mile. As a red-blooded male I can't help ffw through her scenes because she is not attractive or appealing in any way. I think the casting missed the mark with her big time.

2. I am on episode 8 which is about 2-3 months of a timeline from when teressa was captured. Yet, she wears and sleeps in the same damn outfit. The tall heel on her shoes is absurd considering the miles and miles she has run at full speed getting away from people and jumping out third story windows. I think it's a bit lazy to show that she is required to sleep in the same cloths every day. I think her andle(s) would have been broken about 3-4 times by now but she still is able to run full speed. Like, she DOES have some juice with Camilla and James - why could she not request some new clothes?

3. The music score is just bizarre. It never seems to go away and there is always this errie, ominous sound playing in the background. It's just bad. Perhaps it's how Latin shows are....maybe but it does not help the show in any way. Once you start to dial into the non stop background noise you'll not be able to unhear it.

4. The character who played Teressa's husband was great - he should have got more screen time.

I DO like this series but it's just bizarre in some ways. I am excited there are many seasons remaining!

She walks down a staircase, Teresa is on the bed being SA’d, the queen looks at her, says something, then Teresa shoots him.

I can’t remember what she said but I remember it being really powerful

Can we pleaseee get a spin-off of Devon Finch ? He’s such a complicated character !! Plus, I love Jamie Hector’s acting. Would do y’all think ?

Watching again. I’m in season 5 now and recognized so many bugs when “The Family” is in Berlin.

The best: in one of the cutscenes, they show a bridge at a river, which is mentioned as Berlin. I didn’t recognize it when I was watching the series the fist time, but it’s not Berlin. It’s a bridge at my Hometown Düsseldorf.

Would be interested in what bugs you’ve seen in the entire series.

Why does Teresa keeps getting ambushed and kidnapped? She keeps sending Pote away like she's not in a war. Why doesn't she have a more men with her like Castel or Camila? She always has like 1 or 2 people with her and it's driving me crazy.

Also, why is she trying to expand in the east coast when she doesn't even have a foothold in New Orleans?!

I understand that she wants to explore options before resorting to killing but these people are straight up disrespecting her and making her look weak. Looking weak will only make others try to punk her. She's regressed and I hate that she doesn't want to admit that violence is very much needed in the drug business.

Rewatching from the beginning.

One of my biggest gripes from the series was how Camila’s story ends with her just going into exile and never being talked about again. I loooved Camila and I always thought it was kind of an underwhelming way to go.

But in season 1 ep 8, she kind of foreshadows her own downfall.

“There are lots of ways to kill someone. Destroying my business, making me go back to Mexico. Back to him. That would be death to me.”

Obviously, she didn’t end up going back to Epifanio (he’s busy being dead) but losing EVERYTHING and having to go on the run with a daughter who hates her….

To her, the fate she received was death. No money, no power, no family…she was good as dead. So in a way, it’s even darker cause, sure, she’s still alive, but everything she defined herself with is gone.

I still wish the writers found a clever way to bring her back in season 4/5, even just a cameo to check in with her, but whatever

Be forewarned: this is not going to be an intelligent discussion. This is just me enjoying and reacting to a television show.

-Alice Braga is absolutely amazing as Teresa. Easily one of the best actors in the entire show. I kept rewinding scenes just to watch her facial expressions or the look in her eyes. Truly excellent

-Camila is a very compelling character. That scene where she comforts Teresa after Teresa kills that guy? The compassion was startling, especially because I don’t believe that Camila actually cares about her husband and daughter, or anything but money and power. She’s great

-Epifanio reminds me of a character from The West Wing. Something about the way he talks reminds me of Martin Sheen’s character from that show. He and Camila have a very interesting power struggle going on and I love it

-Isabela absolutely sucks. Her acting sucks, the writing for her sucks, and it doesn’t help that her character is supposed to be 14 and the actress was born in 1993, which makes her a year older than me, so she would have been about 22 when they were filming. Genuinely the most baffling casting choice I’ve seen in a long time. It ties in with Tony in how these directors and writers don’t seem to know how to direct or write children

-I just started reading the book this series is based on, and it’s excellent. Something that it does very well is give us a sense of who Teresa is as a person, not just Guero’s girlfriend. I wish the show would do the same thing

Overall, very fun, if sometimes hard to watch. Excited for Season 2!

So I’m currently trying to watch everything that Alice Braga has ever been in, and now I’m jumping into Queen of the South after watching Dark Matter on Apple TV. I’m only on the second episode of season 1, but wow, I am loving this show. That scene where Teresa swallowed the drugs and then later threw them up? So hard to watch and I loved it. I know I’m so late to the party since this show came out in 2016, but I’m so glad there’s a subreddit for this show!

does anybody know the song in the car/scene where they celebrate with cake as he lays dead in the car with teresa james and pote in season 3 episode 6

Having watch the first six episodes of season 1 I'm finding it a little slow. Is it worth continuing? 🤔 I loved The Wire and that was really slow for the first season, but don't want to go through a couple of seasons only to find it doesn't ramp up in terms of gripping storyline. Any feedback is appreciated.