This is a Mexico-American-Colombian remake of the Colombian mini-series 'Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso' based on the best-selling novel by the same name. I've not read the novel nor seen the original Colombian series, but I suspect those are far better than this mess. I have not seen every single episode of this version and haven't paid close attention either because, well, it's very hard to do that. The main reason I've watched this is because it comes before "El Cartel" and I didn't want to miss a minute of that outstanding series.
The story is about Catalina, played by the beautiful and sexy Carmen Villalobos, who dreams of becoming an international model but lacks the chest size to make it to paradise. But in order to solve that she needs money that she doesn't have. She and other girls are recruited by some lady pimp to become a prostitutes for Mexican drug lords. For her it's about getting the funds to make her dream come true.
The pace of this series is atrociously slow. What should take 1 or 2 episodes takes weeks and weeks to be resolved. Will she or will she not sleep with the drug lord? Somehow she and her best friend are recruited by the DEA to act as bait to catch these drug lords. But then for weeks on end they go through some "training" in scenes that were utterly dumb. Once they are on their mission, again we have to wait months to see if they have to sleep with the drug lords or if the DEA will intervene in the last minute. From there the girls end up in kidnapped by communist guerrillas. Eventually they are rescued and Catalina goes home but she doesn't tell her mom the ordeal she has been through.
A side story involves Catalinas mom who gets herself involved with Catalina's boyfriend and ends up pregnant. The boyfriend leaves the mom several times and comes back. Once all three are reunited the question becomes, who will get to stay with whom. But as things seem to get to a solution, drug dealers appear yet again to take Catalina with them.
The series is still ongoing as I write this, even though Telemundo has been promising for months now that we are watching the final episodes. But there seems to be no end to this.
Despite the huge budget of this series almost everything about it is poor: the writing, some of the acting, the terrible direction, etc. Even though the themes and issues are dead serious, it is all treated in a campy manner. However, it's not campy enough to be funny. So there is no drama and no humor either. It's just bland and dumb. Unfortunately, the high ratings probably give the producers the impression that idiotic, watered-down productions are the path to success. And I'm afraid we'll see more of these Americanized version for dummies of excellent Colombian productions. Why not just show the original as they did with El Cartel? Still, as bad as "Sin Senos" is, it is still far superior to 99% of Mexican and Venezuelan soaps that are just nasty and mean-spirited melodramas.
I'll give this one point for Carmen Villalobos who is a unique beauty that's both hot and sweet and takes a lot of abuse- I hope she got paid well for all that. Another point for plenty of scenes of women in bikinis- although oddly most aren't particularly attractive. And a third point for some large sets, with lots of extras who are trying their best. But that doesn't in any way improve how awful, slow, uninteresting, and dull this series is.
The story is about Catalina, played by the beautiful and sexy Carmen Villalobos, who dreams of becoming an international model but lacks the chest size to make it to paradise. But in order to solve that she needs money that she doesn't have. She and other girls are recruited by some lady pimp to become a prostitutes for Mexican drug lords. For her it's about getting the funds to make her dream come true.
The pace of this series is atrociously slow. What should take 1 or 2 episodes takes weeks and weeks to be resolved. Will she or will she not sleep with the drug lord? Somehow she and her best friend are recruited by the DEA to act as bait to catch these drug lords. But then for weeks on end they go through some "training" in scenes that were utterly dumb. Once they are on their mission, again we have to wait months to see if they have to sleep with the drug lords or if the DEA will intervene in the last minute. From there the girls end up in kidnapped by communist guerrillas. Eventually they are rescued and Catalina goes home but she doesn't tell her mom the ordeal she has been through.
A side story involves Catalinas mom who gets herself involved with Catalina's boyfriend and ends up pregnant. The boyfriend leaves the mom several times and comes back. Once all three are reunited the question becomes, who will get to stay with whom. But as things seem to get to a solution, drug dealers appear yet again to take Catalina with them.
The series is still ongoing as I write this, even though Telemundo has been promising for months now that we are watching the final episodes. But there seems to be no end to this.
Despite the huge budget of this series almost everything about it is poor: the writing, some of the acting, the terrible direction, etc. Even though the themes and issues are dead serious, it is all treated in a campy manner. However, it's not campy enough to be funny. So there is no drama and no humor either. It's just bland and dumb. Unfortunately, the high ratings probably give the producers the impression that idiotic, watered-down productions are the path to success. And I'm afraid we'll see more of these Americanized version for dummies of excellent Colombian productions. Why not just show the original as they did with El Cartel? Still, as bad as "Sin Senos" is, it is still far superior to 99% of Mexican and Venezuelan soaps that are just nasty and mean-spirited melodramas.
I'll give this one point for Carmen Villalobos who is a unique beauty that's both hot and sweet and takes a lot of abuse- I hope she got paid well for all that. Another point for plenty of scenes of women in bikinis- although oddly most aren't particularly attractive. And a third point for some large sets, with lots of extras who are trying their best. But that doesn't in any way improve how awful, slow, uninteresting, and dull this series is.