Ok, I am not one for Latino telenovelas at all, but this series is so deliciously bonkers and one of the most creative shows I have seen in a long, long time.
Who Killed Sara? is a three-season, Mexican telenovela about a young, innocent seventeen-year-old girl who dies in a parasailing accident and what led up to and what follows. That is all I will add about the main theme.
Now, here is the big caveat - to enjoy this series you have to accept this series for what it is: it is a well-done exaggerated version of an American soap opera with so many twists and turns one won't believe it.
It has hyperbolic melodrama and uses things like paying attention to one's face when some big revelation is made known (sort of like the parody of the "dum-de-dum" drumroll when that reveal comes along), and carries most landmarks of a nighttime and daytime soap blended together.
It continues to follow the rules of soaps by having characters switch loyalties left and right, where one day enemies are friends and the next day, they are trying to kill each other and on it goes.
Two of the most remarkable things about this series include how they work the twists and turns by allowing them to be plausible and not require a viewer to suspend all belief to believe them and the filming technique.
When I mention the filming technique, it is how they work in all these twists and turns and the introduction of characters. The best way I can describe it is that it is like each actor had their own cameraman follow them and film segments from their point of view that then overlaps and makes it so that all of these things that happen later seem original and actually fit in as the story goes on so that these new things don't seem to be simply added to cheaply advance the plot.
Also, I have not laughed my ass off at so many things meant to be serious just because of the acting delivery. I don't know any other way to describe it, but it is just how these actors in telenovelas act and react - it is so amplified with the intent being to appear not amplified, if that makes sense.
But back to the twists and turns - as soon as you think you have something figured out, it's all tossed right out the door, and wonderfully so and this goes on through all three seasons.
To me, Season 3 is the weakest of the seasons, but still good, and all things are wrapped up in Season 3.
But I'm telling you all - if you sit down with the right frame of mind, and accept this show as one of those guilty pleasures, it most likely will be a blast and this is coming from one that dislikes telenovelas.
