The best Mexican TV series
Apart from the TV series you can think of, there are many Mexican series that we can see on Netflix, and many action thrillers or comedies to enjoy. From the legendary La casa de las flores to the hilarious Anne are just two examples. We take a look at some of the most recommended Mexican TV shows you can ever see.
Who Killed Sara?
One of the biggest hits of 2021 on Netflix is Who Killed Sara? and it has managed to become one of the best and most successful United States premieres of non-English speaking series in the history of the platform: More than 55 million accounts watched this Mexican production in the first month since its premiere. It currently has two seasons and a third has already been confirmed and is expected to arrive.
An engaging thriller starring Álex, a young man who is about to get out of jail after 18 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Álex wants to avenge his sister’s death, to avenge those who set him up so as not to tarnish his name. And he will do so by fighting the Lazcano family in a story where we will explore the details of the death of the eponymous hero.
La casa de las flores
Manolo Caro is responsible for producing the Mexican production of La Casa de las Flores, which premiered on Netflix in the summer of 2018, which became one of the big hits and left legendary phrases that went viral. After the first episodes, two more seasons followed until the story ended in April 2020. In addition to LGTB + topics, it has an integrity of work and dramas.
The De La Mora family owns a thriving flower shop, but secrets begin to come to light when they discover the body of the lover of the family’s father, Ernesto de la Mora. A lover with a young daughter who will live with the rest of the family and make everything the start of chaos where lies, secrets and corruption will be exposed.
La Reina del Sur
La Reina del Sur is a novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte, who originally had his own serial version of this Netflix series from 2010 to 2018, and has now been completed on the streaming platform with over one hundred episodes. It is also the most expensive telenovela produced by Telemundo and one of the biggest hits of all time worldwide.
It stars the popular Kate del Castillo, who plays Teresa Mendoza. A young Mexican born in Sinaloa but going to Spain to live. She flees her country to the Iberian Peninsula after receiving a call that her boyfriend is dead and may be in danger. He will be involved in a drug trafficking conspiracy in Spain, but at the same time he will try to rebuild his life, find a job and love again.
Jugar con fuego
Only ten episodes in its first season features the Mexican series Jugar con fuego, one of the shortest romantic soap operas on Netflix. A series that premiered by Telemundo in 2019 and is not expected for more seasons with a closed ending. A love story, a romantic drama, a love triangle.
Fabrizio is a seductive young man who has been involved in the lives of three women, Camila, Martina and Andrea. Camila is a married woman and also her best friend Martina. Next to them is Andrea, the daughter of the second. Fabrizio delves into the lives of the three of them to create constant conflicts that begin when the three fall in love with the same man. Love, heartbreak, jealousy, power, eroticism, conflicts, rivalries… A classic soap opera, a romantic drama of ten episodes of approximately 45 minutes on Netflix.
El Dragon
This series is also based on a novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte and gives us a two-season drama on Netflix. One of the biggest successes of the broadcasting platform’s Mexican TV series, where drug trafficking, murders or action are not lacking. For now, there are around 80 episodes available in two seasons created by Univisión.
The protagonist of “Dragon: Return of a Warrior” was sent from Mexico to Japan after the death of his parents. There, on the other side of the world, he became a concerned businessman, an international financial expert. But his family business will take him back to his hometown of Mexico, where he will have to return home to take over the cartel organization led by his grandfather. He will have to not only lead this “company”, but also control drug rivals from his country or from neighboring countries.
Ingobernable
Kate del Castillo is also the protagonist of Ungovernable, another Mexican series on Netflix. A story of action and suspense, politics and police. One of the great successes of the streaming platform with a frenzied pace and not many episodes (around 30 in total) as well as famous faces like the Spanish Maxi Iglesias. She is addictive to many. It’s a short series if you’re looking for something quick, easy on the eyes and a weekend snack.
Kate del Castillo is Emilia Urquiza, the first Mexican woman to ask the country’s president to divorce her husband in the first minutes of the series. However, when they can’t come to an agreement, it will end in a fight where he falls down from the balcony of the room. Urquiza will have to escape a frenzied series of persecution, and that leaves the theme of impossible loves and romantic dramas aside to bring us all together.
Dark Desire
Dark Desire is an original 18-episode Netflix Mexican drama with half-hour episodes of suspense filled with love, revenge and secrets. The story of Alma, a married woman who is going on a weekend getaway with her best friend. But that weekend will get complicated and a man will go through a life where he will be unfaithful to his husband. A lover much younger than he is, a lover who will be the beginning of a conspiracy brought to life by Alejandro Speitzer, and we realize that they are all united for a reason, that they are all keeping a secret.
Madre solo hay dos
A Mexican comedy released in 2021 that centers on two mothers and two families. No revenge, death, drug dealing or romance dramas. Mariana and Ana are two female protagonists who are also mothers and whose lives intersect because they accidentally exchanged their children at birth. They want to keep the baby they gave birth to together, but they decide to live together in the same family before turning to girls. This would lead to a family comedy of hilarious and embarrassing situations in a series of just nine half-hour episodes that we can watch on Netflix if we’re looking for something to have a good time.
Luis Miguel
One of the best and must-have Mexican TV series. This biography of Luis Miguel was published in 2018 and kicked off its second season in 2021. Starring world musical star Diego Boneta, he brings the very young singer to life before he becomes a star and until he turns 22 in the first season. The second season begins in 1992 and follows the life of the singer throughout this decade.
El final del paraíso
It is based on a trilogy of novels by Gustavo Bolivar. Telemundo and Fox Colombia are the producers in charge of these 80+ episodes. It all started with Catalina, a young woman who wanted to have breast augmentation surgery and needed someone to “finance” her. This will end up turning his life into a business of prostitution, drugs and bad effects.
Betty en NY
Telemundo returned to us with Betty in NY, one of the Mexican Netflix series that we can watch if we like the classics. A Colombian adaptation that introduces us to new actors and actresses, but the same plot and the same name for its protagonist.
Beatriz Rincón is the new secretary, Betty, who is not what they expected. Armando Mendoza begins his new job, where he finds heir and secretary of a fashion company. Betty is smart, over-qualified, but not at all attractive, beautiful, or elegant. She is constantly humiliated, but she will try to find a place for herself in the company, both at work and in the hearts of her colleagues and her new boss.
El club
Rich young Mexican misfits try to entertain themselves by selling MDMA, but soon discover that the drug business isn’t just a fun game to pass the time, and they’ll see how problems multiply. They will have to face not only other traffickers, but also the law or the risks their families are currently facing. If you’re looking for a TV show about teen and teen drug trafficking, it’s only a few half-hour episodes (about 25 episodes).