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akindplace · 6 months ago

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Here’s a run down of what happens in the honorably mentioned soap operas: in la usurpadora (the usurper, translated) an evil twin (Paola) falsely accuses the good twin of burglary and blackmails her (Paulina) into going to live at Paola’s house for a year with her husband, stepchildren, mother in law, sister in law and brother in law (who she’s having an affair with) so Paola can travel the world with another man she was having an affair with. Their mom (Paula) separated them at birth but never told either daughter, Paola was raised rich and Paulina is poor. Also Paulina pretends to be sick for all that time to avoid having sex with Paola’s husband because she’s a virgin. Huge Madonna vs whore plot device happening here as it usually does in every soap opera.

She saves everyone from their problems in the family and falls in love with the husband who by that point is thinking about cheating with his cousin that is madly in love with him. They find out, she runs away, but then comes back to help the guy find his son, Paola runs off with another lover but then comes back but then the family realizes they prefer the good twin, so Paola sends her to jail for stealing her identity, she gets acquitted, Paola dies after a car crash she causes and after some more drama Paulina marries the widowed husband of her sister.

That’s literally Paola’s reaction after she found out her husband bad been shot by her brother in law

In María la del barrio (Maria from the neighborhood, translated), a poor orphaned girl gets taken in by a rich old man and his family doesn’t really like her because she’s poor, but they soon warm up to her including the rich guy’s son starts liking her but his cousin (Soraya) who is madly in love with him and wants to marry him for his money pretends she’s pregnant by him so he can marry her. And then Soraya tries to kill someone and falls off a high balcony and dies. But people really warmed up to the villain because she was absolutely evil so the writers brought her back. And then like 15 years later she decides to come back to get her revenge on Maria who is now married to the guy that was her brother and had a kid. Tiktok books have nothing on soap operas (both of these are from the 90s).

And Soraya married some guy and kills him and has a step daughter who is sick. Soraya starts having an affair with Maria’s son and but later he gets involved with her step daughter and Soraya attacks her

AND THATS WHATS HAPPENING IN THE ICONIC GASPS IN SPANISH MEME

And more drama happens, Maria loses her memory a couple of times, gets sent to jail and then Soraya tries to kill Maria and dies on a fire. But honestly she survived falling from a high balcony, so who the fuck knows

Also the actor who plays the love interest who is also loved by a cousin is the same guy.

All three novelas are loved by public for one reason only: the most unhinged comically evil villains are evil for the sabe of being evil.

Whenever I see someone who is not Brazilian using this gif I wonder if they know that it is from a Brazilian soapopera from the 2000s called senhora do destino (mistress of destiny) that has a chokehold on pop culture to this day

This character is the villain of the story, who steals a baby from another woman and raises the kid as her own. She kills a bunch of people usually by pushing them down the stairs or with scissors and this scene from the meme is her slowly going mad when she realizes she’s getting her comeuppance and going to prison. It is a tragic story but she is a meme because she is stereotypically evil and has lines that are comical and are memes 20 years laters such as seeing a gay couple and going “dykes… I can smell the leather”