{"id":6037,"date":"2020-07-25T00:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T05:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2021-04-20T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:55:05","slug":"dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/25\/dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Primetime TV Review: &#8220;Dark Desire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Review!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- wordpressheader --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\" data-ad-slot=\"6768796679\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5871\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/darkdesire2.jpeg\" alt=\"Dark Desire on Netflix\" width=\"424\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/darkdesire2.jpeg 566w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/darkdesire2-300x186.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Dark Desire&#8221; on Netflix Review by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 7\/25\/20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a steamy, suspenseful Mexican drama from a somewhat-feminist point of view. Maite Perroni stars as Alma, a beautiful woman who teaches criminal law. Her specialty appears to be &#8220;femicide,&#8221; i.e., homicide of women. She&#8217;s married to a judge, Leonardo (Jorge Poza), but they&#8217;re not happy, and she suspects that he&#8217;s cheating on her. We don&#8217;t see for sure, in the first episode, whether he&#8217;s doing that or not, but he certainly does have some secrets that he&#8217;s keeping.<\/p>\n<p>Her good friend Brenda (Mar\u00eda Fernanda Yepes), newly-divorced, invites her for a weekend stay. They go out dancing. Alma ends up sleeping with a handsome younger man, Dario (Alejandro Speitzer).<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of the series shows a woman (maybe Alma) getting arrested, and the coroner is taking a body away. They were wise to put that at the beginning, to create tension, because the show starts very slowly. However, by the end of the first episode, two shocking things happen. It&#8217;s worth waiting for. I can&#8217;t wait to see what happens next!<\/p>\n<p>Alma and Leonard also have a daughter, Zoe (Regina Pav\u00f3n), and Leonard&#8217;s brother, Esteban (Erik Hayser), a cop, also is involved in the story. There are 18 episodes, which is long for a Netflix series. In other reviews I&#8217;ve seen, the show is compared to &#8220;You,&#8221; the Lifetime\/Netflix stalker drama, and &#8220;365 Days,&#8221; a Polish S&amp;M mob drama.<\/p>\n<p>MORE INFORMATION:<\/p>\n<div class=\"title-info-metadata-wrapper\" data-uia=\"title-info-metadata-wrapper\"><span class=\"title-info-metadata-item item-maturity\" data-uia=\"item-maturity\"><span class=\"maturity-rating\"><span class=\"maturity-number\">TV-MA <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"title-info-metadata-item item-runtime\" data-uia=\"item-runtime\"><span class=\"duration\"><span class=\"test_dur_str\">1 Season<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div data-uia=\"title-info-metadata-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"title-info-synopsis-talent\" data-uia=\"title-info-synopsis-talent\">\n<div class=\"title-info-synopsis\" data-uia=\"title-info-synopsis\">Married Alma spends a fateful weekend away from home that ignites passion, ends in tragedy and leads her to question the truth about those close to her.<\/div>\n<div class=\"title-info-talent\">\n<div class=\"title-data-info-item item-starring\"><span class=\"title-data-info-item-label\">Starring:<\/span><span class=\"title-data-info-item-list\" data-uia=\"info-starring\">Maite Perroni, Erik Hayser, Alejandro Speitzer<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"title-data-info-item item-creators\"><span class=\"title-data-info-item-label\">Creators:<\/span><span class=\"title-data-info-item-list\" data-uia=\"info-creators\">Leticia L\u00f3pez Margalli<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alma Solares, a prestigious lawyer and college professor, visits her best friend for the weekend to \u201cprocess the grief\u201d of the latter\u2019s divorce. During the getaway, Alma meets Dario Guerra, a 23-year-old, and they have a wild tryst. She returns home with her husband and daughter, determined to forget her lapse in judgment, but her life becomes a living hell. What started as a minor adventure becomes an incendiary passion, and then a dangerous obsession, unraveling a chain of secrets of a past that fatally binds them all.<\/div>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/primetime\/reviews\/\">Back to the Main Reviews Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The opinions in these articles are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of TVMEG.COM or its other volunteers.<\/i><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- wordpressheader --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\" data-ad-slot=\"6768796679\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5854\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/darkdesire1.png\" alt=\"Dark Desire on Netflix\" width=\"457\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/darkdesire1.png 457w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/darkdesire1-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Review! &#8220;Dark Desire&#8221; on Netflix Review by Suzanne 7\/25\/20 This is a steamy, suspenseful Mexican drama from a somewhat-feminist point of view. Maite Perroni stars as Alma, a beautiful woman who teaches criminal law. Her specialty appears to be &#8220;femicide,&#8221; i.e., homicide of women. She&#8217;s married to a judge, Leonardo (Jorge Poza), but they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,7],"tags":[79,222,125,341],"class_list":["post-6037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-primetime","tag-article","tag-critique","tag-opinion","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}