I have to preface this by saying I enjoy this show, the leads are amazing actors and I was also super excited to see they included my country in the show at first... but then I saw it and well it gave me the sads... it was sad to see that there was clearly no effort made in:
Hiring a Guatemalan writer that made the spanish actors' dialogue sound like they're Chapinos. Think of it this way, if you're doing a TV show showcasing Texas but you hire actors from Scotland, Australia and Ireland to play Texan and they don't even try to change their accents and don't even use Texan slang in the dialogue whatsoever and instead use Aussie slang and Scottish slang...like wtf
It was so obvious that none of the latinx actors are from my country, some weren't even native Spanish speakers and it was hard to understand what they were saying - why would you hire non native speakers to do that job? I read that one girl is part Guatemalan but clearly she doesn't speak the language because she sounded like it was very difficult for her to say the words in spanish but hey at least ONE actor in the whole show that actually had 50% Guatemalan roots ... but isn't that also sad that they didn't even try to feature majority Guatemalan actors depicting Guatemalans? Or at least close to half or a third...?
Also, the show only served the narrowest saddest stereotypes of my country and my people...and they got the country and the people wrong! It was a tough pill to swallow.
Also please do your research on getting our Hupil correctly. I get that there must have been covid restrictions but google is free and you can even buy huipils on etsy. I'm tired of having the name of my country thrown around because it sounds "exotic" it felt very tokenizing to me.
If this was gonna be the outcome and the majority of the actors cast for the episode are Mexican, why didn't they just have the cast go to Mexico instead?