La Reina del Sur is a Spanish television show created by Roberto Stopello. This television drama of Spain is based on a novel of the same name which was written by Spanish author Arturo Perez Reverte. The producers of the first season Telemundo (American Television Network) in conjunction with the Antena 3 alongside RTI Productions, got changed after the first season. In the second season, they got replaced by Netflix attains all broadcasting and production rights. Telemundo Global Studios (American Television Network) becomes co-producers of the series.
This Spanish show was written for television by Juan Marcos Blanco, Valentina Parraga, and Jose Miguel Nunez. Mauricio Cruz and Walter Doehner are the directors of this show.
This show is a Telenovela, Telenovelas are stylistically and thematically similar to soap operas that are familiar to English-speaking audiences. Telenovelas normally convey one self-contained story in a year or less, but soap operas typically feature linked plots recounted over an infinite period of time. They are thus shorter than most other television series, but far longer than a miniseries. In comparison to a traditional soap opera, this scheduled run results in a faster-paced, more succinct style of melodrama.
As of now, the show released its 2 seasons which there are 123 and each episode is 30 to 40 minutes long which was started premiering on February 28, 2011.
La Reina Del Sur Season 3 Release Date
It is the second most costly telenovela ever produced by Telemundo, after El Seor de Los Cielos, with a budget of $10 million. Queen of the South, an English-language adaptation starring Alice Braga, was broadcast on USA Network in June 2016. The show was renewed for a second season, which began on April 22nd, 2019. Telemundo announced on July 16, 2020, that the series had been renewed for a third season.
The immense popularity of this show attracted Netflix to be a part of it, that popularity forces the creators of this show to renew it for another season. The first and second did a pretty well job in both rating and views. This telenovela is one of the most-watched telenovelas in Spain, these are some reasons fans were sure that the show will be going to be renewed which they did. However, there is still no update on the release date of season 3, as due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021, the shooting of the show got delayed which eventually forces the creator to delay the show. But the good thing is that the show’s shooting resumed and will going to release anytime soon.
So, that’s all the news we have got, for now, if we get any update or official release date announcement, we will make sure to update the page with the latest information.
| La Reina Del Sur Season 1 Release Date | 28 February 2011 |
| La Reina Del Sur Season 2 Release Date | 22 April 2019 |
| La Reina Del Sur Season 3 Release Date | TBA |
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La Reina del Sur Season 1 Recap
The series is a television version of Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-literary Reverte’s masterpiece of the same name. It’s the story of a Mexican woman’s climb to dominance in the world of international drug trafficking. Teresa Mendoza begins her journey as a poor young woman who falls in love with a Mexican cartel pilot. Teresa leaves when her partner is executed, desperate to avoid the same fate. Her flight takes her to the south of Spain, where she attempts to begin a new life. However, she is once again drawn into the world of narcotics trafficking, and she loses a loved one for the second time. She chooses to take control of her destiny after a series of setbacks and establishes her organization. Teresa accomplished this with the assistance of a woman she met in prison who decided to share her good fortune with her.
“La Mexicana” begins to run an intercontinental drug distribution operation through strategic partnerships and a keen business sense. Teresa’s happiness and heart are put to the test as a result of her immense success, which comes at a terrible personal cost.
La Reina del Sur Season 2 Story
Teresa Mendoza’s life eight years after the events of the first season finale is followed in the second season of La Reina del Sur. She enjoys an ideal life in Tuscany, isolated from the rest of the world, but the kidnapping of her daughter drives her to return to the underworld and reintroduces herself to drug trafficking. Teresa will have to face her old enemies and confront her past, which she had hoped to leave behind if she is to save her daughter.