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posted by janrinok on Friday July 17 2015, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly

Netflix has recently added Spanish-language shows on its service in the US. And the company says American subscribers are loving it.

"We've licensed a lot of programming from Latin America into the US, and are getting incredible viewing," Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a call with shareholders today. "Shows that are successful for us in Mexico are now drawing huge numbers for us in the US."

Netflix has been able to reach a new demographic of users in the US, Sarandos says, by offering shows that originate in Latin America—and can assess what kinds of other content these users might find interesting. "We're getting hundreds of thousands of hours a day on single shows," Sarandos adds.

I started watching a Mexican program to keep up with my kids who are in dual-language kindergarten at school. Regrettably the plot advances at the snail's pace of all soap operas. Can any Soylentils recommend Spanish language shows on Netflix for our crowd?


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by ramloss on Friday July 17 2015, @05:55PM

    by ramloss (1150) on Friday July 17 2015, @05:55PM (#210523)

    The shows that TFA mentions have little variety: nine are series about drug dealers, six are soap operas and only five other shows do not fall into these two categories.

    "El Chapulín Colorado" is a comedy and may be of interest to those learning the language, but it's from the 70's and its age really shows. Personally, I can't recommend any of the rest, but I can see how someone may be (mildly) interested in series like "Operación Jaque" that relates the rescue of the 2002 colombian presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt from the FARC, or "Los Caballeros Las Prefieren Brutas" that gives humorous insights into the latin-american culture's attitudes toward women, or "La Prepago" about a college student that leads a double life as a prostitute.

    On the other hand, if soaps are your thing, you can't go wrong with any of them, and there are plenty of stories about drug dealers if you want to compare against your preconceptions :-).

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 18 2015, @04:15PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday July 18 2015, @04:15PM (#210806) Journal

    I've been watching one about a woman's transformation into a drug dealer that reminds me a little of Breaking Bad. The pacing is too soap opera for my liking, but it is interesting to get insights into Mexican identity. There was this scene where somebody in Spanish North Africa called her a "stupid southerner," and she proudly retorted that she was "North American. North." There's a bit of pride in being Mexican outlaws (echoes of Pancho Villa?) but also a curious abashedness when they get to the United States because "you can't play fast and loose here, like you can in Sinaloa..."

    I appreciate the complexity. You don't get that much, viewing Latin America from the United States, where the impressions are two dimensional, cartoon cutouts.

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