Disney Plus' new drama is doing something different: daily drops of soapy Spanish show Return To Las Sabinas
Two-months of non-stop new episodes
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Thebest streaming servicestend to approach new episodes in different ways, so while Netflix has long offered entire seasons in single binge-worthy bursts the likes of Prime Video andAppleTV Plus prefer to drop new episodes once a week. And nowDisney Plusis getting in on the act with yet another way of scheduling seasons. Its new Spanish dramaReturn to Las Sabinas, the first five episodes of which are already available, will be getting one new episode every day for the next 65 days.
That’s a lot of days and a lot of episodes for a streaming show, butReturn to Las Sabinasis drawing from something already well established: the soapy dramas delivered daily by TV networks in most of the world. So while this is new territory for streaming and thebest Disney Plus shows, it’s very familiar to fans of daytime TV dramatics.
What is Return to Las Sabinas about?
It’s about 50 hours – ho ho! The show is billed as an original daily melodrama in the vein of popular telenovelas, and it follows two sisters, Gracia and Paloma, who return to their childhood home to care for their father. There, Gracia reconnects with her first love – but her first love is engaged to somebody else, and his brother is still in love with Gracia. Drama, inevitably, ensues.
Telenovelas and similarly low-budget daytime dramas tend to be famed for their wobbly sets and wooden performances, but this show looks different:Deadlinereports that it had a much bigger budget, a much longer shooting schedule and much more post-production time than typical daytime dramas. Director Jordi Frades says that “we want the people to find love, passion, drama, comedy and everything they like in a daily show, but maybe with a little upgrade”.
Return To Las Sabinasis streaming now on Disney Plus around the world and on Hulu in the US.
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