From time to time you have to get out of your comfort zone, since you never know what you may be missing. The overwhelming success of ‘Woman-fragranced coffee’ on Netflix, as well as its resounding failure on Telecinco, led me to want see for myself if this serial phenomenon lived up to its fame, for better or worse. Spoiler: it came out so-so.
Decaffeinated
I hadn’t come close to ‘Café con aroma de mujer’ because, honestly, soap operas have never particularly appealed to me (not even in the days of ‘Rebelde’ or ‘Pasión de gavilanes’). In the end I decided to give it a try because, even if it was a chestnut, I wanted to see something that would hook me.
Besides, I’m always in favor of ironic viewing. From time to time I put on bad movies to rage and I have a good laugh at their expense. Of course, half measures are not worth it to me: when I see a slop, my retinas have to bleed so that I have a really good time ripping and feeling embarrassed.
Let’s situate ourselves: we have Gaviota, a young coffee picker who has spent a long time saving with her mother to buy a hectare of the fields from her boss. Bad luck wants him to die of a heart attack and the subject remains in the air. Her son Sebastián attends her funeral and a relationship arises between them. irrepressible attraction that will find many obstacles on the waysuch as his family or his fiancée.
So at first sight, it seems that we are before the umpteenth version of ‘Cinderella’with all the necessary ingredients for those who enjoy this type of story: a humble girl with a good heart, a rich boy who “looks at her”, a forbidden relationship…
Indeed, this series does not tell us anything that we have not seen before. Not in vain, it is the fourth adaptation of a well-known soap opera which has been revisited since 1994. This should not be something negative, since interesting products can be made from hackneyed premises… although this has not been the case.
So… what league does ‘Coffee with the aroma of a woman’ play in? Well, I’m afraid it stays somewhere in between: the first bars of the series don’t stand out for better or worse, staying in no man’s land and It has only awakened me indifference.
These first episodes are too introductory (there is a crime, considering that they last 55 minutes each) and, nevertheless, they run a lot with the theme of the romance between the two protagonists. It has left me with the feeling that it is not entirely clear how the background plot will develop and, in turn, that The entire evolution of the love story has already been told to me in the first episode.
I wouldn’t classify it as a “guilty pleasure”, because it didn’t hook me nor does it have anything so histrionic or ridiculous that it makes you jump the colors, but it doesn’t stand out in terms of character construction, narrative structure or technical aspects either. Even being prepared for both possibilities, I didn’t expect that these first episodes will be so insipid to me.
I would have loved it, really, if it had hooked me like all those users who have raised it every week to the top 10 most watched series on NetflixI would even have preferred that it had seemed so aberrational to me that I wanted to gouge out my eyes… instead of the absolute nothing that it has been.
Of course, I can’t judge the whole series having only seen the first few episodes, but in the age of streaming, where there is so much entertainment on offer and so little time to cover it, It has not aroused enough interest in me to invest mine in watch more than 80 episodes “Let’s see if it improves.”