Netflix enhances the voracious consumption of soap operas: on Wednesday, January 17, it premiered Angry dollthe successful production that Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana starred in between 1998 and 1999. What are the keys to this soap opera that had an average of two and a half million viewers per day?
Angry doll It was originally broadcast on Telefe, from November 16, 1998 to December 17, 1999; It was exported to more than 80 countries and translated into more than 50 languages. Thanks to their characters and the story, Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana became icons of Argentine and Latin American television.
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Angry doll -created and written by Enrique Torres- tells the life of Milagros Espósito, alias “Cholito”, a rebellious and adventurous woman who, when she grows up, leaves the convent where she grew up to become an employee of a mansion.
Milagros Espósito, alias “Cholito” (Natalia Oreiro), and Ivo Di Carlo (Facundo Arana).
There she falls in love with Ivo Di Carlo, the character played by Arana. Her passion for soccer will lead her to dress as a man and assume a parallel identity on match days.
The key of Angry doll lies in how “Cholito” revolutionizes the life of the wealthy Di Carlo family by starting to work as a maid. His duet with Ivo (Arana), the family’s son and protégé, triggers a series of events marked by class differences and discoveries of secrets.
The remembered Lydia Lamaison plays the matriarch Angelica, who receives Milagros with great affection despite class prejudices and social distances. Along with them there is a great cast: Norberto Díaz, Verónica Vieyra, Victoria Onetto, Silvia Baylé, Osvaldo Guidi, Valeria Lorca, Gabriela Sari, Segundo Cernadas, among others.
The key to “Muñeca Brava” lies in how she revolutionizes the life of the wealthy Di Carlo family.
“Muñeca Brava” arrived on Netflix and renews the furor for streaming soap operas
It is enough to review the most watched soap operas on Netflix -and sustained over time-: Passion of Hawks, Rebel way, woman-fragranced coffee, The revenge of the Juanas, The Queen of Flow, Romina Poderosa, Pablo Escobar – The patron of evil and The end of paradiseamong many current titles and from years ago.
What is distinctive about it, among all of them, Angry doll? This soap opera thematizes different topics: identity, love, power relations, clashes of social classes, but above all a dynamic of affection and a chemistry, that of Ivo and Milagros, which crosses all types of barriers and captivates people. and the spectators.
Marriages of convenience, well-kept secrets, infidelity, dark family dynamics, generational tensions: all the soap opera tropes are in Angry doll.
“Muñeca brava” was exported to more than 80 countries and translated into more than 50 languages.
But the plus of the acting and fictional dynamic between Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana was what catapulted the soap opera to the podium of Argentine fictions on open TV.
That is why it had, between 1998 and 1999, 20 rating points continuously. Natalia Oreiro was only 21 years old when she took on the role of “Cholito”, which immediately transformed her into a star and anticipated her international projection in cultures as different as, for example, Russia.
Meanwhile, on Netflix you can see 40 of the 270 episodes of Angry doll, which was inspired by the homonymous tango by Enrique Cadícamo and Luis Visca. Will the missing episodes arrive?
On Netflix you can watch 40 of the 270 total episodes of “Muñeca Brava”.
Cast of “Muñeca Brava”
- Natalia Oreiro – Milagros Esposito/Milagros Di Carlo “The cholito” / “Carlitos”
- Facundo Arana – Ivo Di Carlo/Ivo Miranda
- Arturo Maly – Federico Di Carlo
- Fernanda Mistral – Luisa Rapallo by Di Carlo
- Norberto Díaz – Damian
- Verónica Vieyra – Victoria «Vicky» Di Carlo Rapallo
- Lydia Lamaison – Doña Angélica, widow of Di Carlo
- Victoria Onetto – Adelina “Lina” from Solo
- Mariana Arias – Andrea
- Second Cernadas – Pablo Rapallo
- Osvaldo Guidi – Bernardo Avelleyra
- Valeria Lorca – Martha
- Pablo Novak – Alfredo Luis Solo “Bobby”
- Gino Renni – Ramón García Parapuchino.
- Marcelo Mazzarello – Morgan «Rocky»
Trailer for “Muñeca Brava”
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