Review of Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso

I really liked the original Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso, it was intriguing, well acted, and had a believable story line. Catalina la Grande (Villalobos) is an incredibly beautiful actress and talented in her role. No matter what she does she never loses the aura of sweetness, innocence, and likeability. In the new series Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, Catalina la Mediana is too old to play that role, not nearly as pretty as the first Catalina who is supposed to be her big sister, and infinitely less likeable, being loud, a ruffian, and opposite of what everyone says she is portraying in the role. Not sweet, not gentle, not an angel, but very much an spoiled, unkind, immature bully in many instances. She and Hernan Dario have no fire or passion sparking between them to make their relationship seem real, unlike Catalina la Grande and Albeiro who are perfect as star-crossed lovers. The girl who plays Daniela, an unlikable character, is an excellent actress lending passion and believable emotion to her role and is beautiful as well as dramatic. Jota's role has downgraded him from the original smart, streetwise, caring, brave young man with a stutter, to a jester-like brainless coward unlike the Jota in the original series. Dona Hilda has also lost 90% of her original appeal and personality in the new series. El Titi is still dynamic, funny, passionate, romantic, and evil, but too entertaining and charming to hate as a villain because he is amazing as an actor. Martin turning cannibal, serial killer is ridiculous, a waste of an excellent, talented, James Bond-like actor who is beloved by many north American viewers for his role as Oscar in Pasion de Gavillanes. There is now graphic violence, gore, murder, torture, and gruesomeness for the stake of shock value and it is often disgusting and unnecessary to the story-line, as is the insane addition of voodoo, witches, curses, and black magic which has no place in a story that was never intended to be supernatural. The evil is human and criminal, not other worldly. And now they add a third new Yesica, the first was the best, but how does one explain a face transplant that somehow added five to seven inches of height to the character? It is sad that they could not keep up the quality of the original story and it just keeps getting worse and is now hard to watch without wondering who is writing this new stuff and why? Old story lines are not followed through from one episode to the next let alone from the original series. The sound tract often drowns out the actors voices making them hard to understand. I watch to keep my Spanish current, I am nearly fluent and don't watch with subtitles, but as the story lines cease to make sense and actors are not allowed to showcase their true talents, it is not a series most North American viewers will be willing to follow. It used to be great. I wish they would try to recapture the original if they are granted another season, but I would say that Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso was a 9 or 10 rating, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso is maybe a 3.