{"id":9506,"date":"2020-12-06T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=9506"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:45:54","slug":"primetime-tv-review-selena-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/06\/primetime-tv-review-selena-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Primetime TV Review:  &#8220;Selena: The Series&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Review!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9507\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/selena.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Selena:The Series&#8221; Review by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/bioeva\/\">Eva<\/a> 12\/6\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was interested in watching Selena: The Series because I am a bit of a fan of her music although I will admit I had never heard of her music until my niece brought the movie Selena to my house to watch almost every time I was babysitting her. I began to enjoy her music and knew every line of the movie since I have seen it so many times. The Netflix series shows her road to stardom. The series, in my opinion, does the same thing as the movie showing that Selena and her family struggled and sacrificed to make her a star and that her life was cut tragically short when she was killed by an obsessed fan. I think this series is more for fans of her music to remember her and her music but it doesn&#8217;t add anything new that people who saw the movie didn&#8217;t know already. If you didn&#8217;t see Selena the movie and want to find out more about the singer and her music this is the show for you.<\/p>\n<p>Selena Quintanilla (Christian Serratos) does a good job of playing the Tejana singer who led a sheltered life and whose strict father Abraham Quintanilla (Ricardo Chavira) who was her manager propelled her and her brother AB (Gabriel Chavarria) and sister Suzette (Noemi Gonzalez) to stardom as the band Selena y los Dinos. The show is easy to binge watch, and has good music but I don&#8217;t think it will earn Selena any new fans. I almost wish I had not seen Selena the movie because if I had not seen it I would like the series better. I give this series 3 stars and suggest that you watch Selena the movie if you have not seen it yet but if you want to watch this series watch the movie after you have seen the series.<\/p>\n<p>MORE INFORMATION:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8HYM1kt650&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The countdown to Netflix\u2019s Selena: The Series has officially begun.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of late Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla were up bright and early Tuesday morning for a special announcement from Netflix about its upcoming biography.<\/p>\n<p>The early-morning revelation was that the scripted series, which follows the incredible life and tragic death of the Texas-born performer, will premiere on Netflix December 4, 2020. Netflix also released a handful of new photos and a new teaser trailer.<\/p>\n<p>In the new trailer, Selena, who is portrayed by actress Christian Serratos (TV\u2019s The Walking Dead), walks onto a stage to perform her beloved song \u201cComo la Flor\u201d with a crowd cheering her on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you trust your father?\u201d says Abraham Quintanilla Jr. (San Antonio\u2019s own Ricardo Chavira).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Serratos\u2019 Selena responds.<\/p>\n<p>Selena rose to fame through the 1980s and mid-1990s with hit songs like \u201cBaila Esta Cumbia,\u201d \u201cComo la Flor\u201d and \u201cBidi Bidi Bom Bom.\u201d Considered the \u201cQueen of Tejano,\u201d she started her crossover to an English-language album when she recorded the pop ballad \u201cDreaming of You\u201d in early March 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The song would be released posthumously five months later. On March 31, 1995, Selena was murdered at a motel in Corpus Christi by her friend and founder of her fan club. She was only 23 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Serratos and Chavira, the cast of the new series includes actors Gabriel Chavarria (TV\u2019s The Purge) as her brother A.B., Noemi Gonzalez (TV\u2019s East Los High) as her sister Suzette and newcomer Madison Taylor Baez, who plays Selena as a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I find most enduring about Selena is her ability to defy boundaries,\u201d Serratos wrote on social media earlier this year. \u201cShe paved the way for Latinas and inspired so many to continue in the face of adversity. I will be forever grateful for the memories she has given me, and what she\u2019s done for women like me and my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/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><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/primetime\/reviews\/\">Back to the Main Reviews Page<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9508\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/selena2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Review! &#8220;Selena:The Series&#8221; Review by Eva 12\/6\/2020 I was interested in watching Selena: The Series because I am a bit of a fan of her music although I will admit I had never heard of her music until my niece brought the movie Selena to my house to watch almost every time I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":689,"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":[79,486,222,125,341,485],"class_list":["post-9506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-primetime","tag-article","tag-christian-serratos","tag-critique","tag-opinion","tag-review","tag-selena-the-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506","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\/689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10157,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}