I watched this for Spanish listening practice. It's a modern production in a dated kinda style, which gives it a quirkiness that I enjoyed. The settings and the costumes in particular gave it an other-world fairytale quality; this is not a gritty reflection of real life but more of an intelligent soap opera in miniature.
I found the storyline confusing and overly complicated, in part maybe because my Spanish isn't great but mainly I think because it was filled and stretched to cover 10 episodes. I haven't read the book so don't know how true to the book it is, but with an adaption sometimes simplifying the story does better justice to the text.
It definitely has a compelling charm to it and visually it's beautifully done, but I felt the story would have been stronger with less time and "filling".
I found the storyline confusing and overly complicated, in part maybe because my Spanish isn't great but mainly I think because it was filled and stretched to cover 10 episodes. I haven't read the book so don't know how true to the book it is, but with an adaption sometimes simplifying the story does better justice to the text.
It definitely has a compelling charm to it and visually it's beautifully done, but I felt the story would have been stronger with less time and "filling".