The House of Flowers · Season 1 · Netflix
The House of Flowers Season 1
The House of Flowers Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.2/10. 13 episodes on Netflix from 10 August 2018.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 1 of La Casa de las Flores landed on Netflix in August 2018 and quickly became one of Netflix Mexico's most-discussed originals. Critics noted that creator Manolo Caro was doing something structurally unusual: wrapping queer storylines, class satire, and pitch-black comedy inside the scaffolding of a telenovela. Verónica Castro as matriarch Virginia de la Mora became a cultural talking point. The Decider review called it a classic telenovela done well; Refinery29 compared the family dysfunction to Succession. With 83% on Rotten Tomatoes from 6 critics, Season 1 established the show as a prestige Latin American comedy in the same vein as Netflix's best international acquisitions.
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The Room
“The House Of Flowers is a classic telenovela, and a good one.”
Decider“Couple these modern updates with the addictive quality of a classic soap for a fun, not-so-guilty pleasure.”
Common Sense Media
Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1La Monarca8.0
The premiere engineers a spectacular family crisis in its first act - establishing the de la Mora family's architectural hypocrisy with remarkable economy.
The moment: The cabaret reveal that splits the family's public face from its actual income source.