«The House of Flowers» is a Mexican black comedy-drama TV series created by Manolo Caro for Netflix.
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- The House of Flowers is a Mexican black comedy-drama television series created by Manolo Caro.
- It’s a Netflix original series.
- Its original title in Spanish is «La casa de las Flores ».
- It depicts a dysfunctional upper-class Mexican family that owns a prestigious floristry shop and a struggling cabaret, both called «The House of Flowers».
- The series was almost entirely written and directed by its creator.
- Verónica Castro, Cecilia Suárez, Aislinn Derbez, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Arturo Ríos, Paco León, Juan Pablo Medina, Luis de la Rosa, María León, and Isela Vega star in the series.
- The 13-episode first season was released on August 10, 2018. A second and third season of the series were announced in October 2018.
- Verónica Castro had left the cast before the show was renewed and does not appear in later seasons.
- Season 2 premiered on October 18, 2019, and the final season was released on April 23, 2020.
- A short film special called The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral premiered on November 1, 2019.
- Also, a YouTube TV special was released on April 20, 2020.
- The first season is exclusively set in Mexico, while the second and third seasons also feature scenes in Madrid, and the funeral special has a scene set at the Texas-Mexico border.
- It contains several LGBT+ main characters, with plots that look at homophobia and transphobia.
- Seen as satirizing the telenovela genre that it maintains elements of, it also subverts stereotypical presentations of race, class, sexuality, and morality in Mexico.
- Its genre has been described as a new creation, the “millennial telenovela” a label supported by Caro and Suárez.
- The show was generally critically well-received, also winning several accolades.
- Cecilia Suárez and her character, Paulina de la Mora, have been particularly praised, as the character has been described as a Mexican pop icon.
- The character’s voice has been the subject of popularity and discussion, leading to its use in the show’s marketing.
- Aspects of the show have been compared to the work of Pedro Almodóvar, and it has been analyzed by various scholars, including Paul Julian Smith and Ramon Lobato.
- A feature-length film continuation, The House of Flowers: The Movie, premiered on Netflix on 23 June 2021.
- Principal photography for the series began on July 24, 2017.
- The main House of Flowers and de la Mora house sets are in San Andrés Totoltepec, a small town in the Tlalpan region near the edge of Mexico City.
- Filming for season 1 was halted for several weeks in September and October 2017 after the 2017 Puebla earthquake. The show was filming in Condesa as the quake happened and production stopped while waiting for the filming locations to be stabilized.
- Suárez was also injured in the earthquake and could not return to set for a month after production resumed.
- Season 1 finished filming at the end of November 2017.
- Season 2 filming began in early February 2019, with production in Spain from February 5, and ended on July 9, 2019.
- Parts of the second season were filmed on location in Madrid in February 2019.
- Season 2 filming in Mexico largely took place in a nineteenth-century house in Condesa.
- The second and third seasons were filmed at the same time
- Some of season 3 had been filmed in April 2019, while the main photography for it began in June 2019.
- In October 2019, Caro announced that the third season had already wrapped up production.
- Each episode is titled after a flower (and what each flower symbolizes)
- “Julián” Dario Yazbek Bernal is Gael García Bernal’s half brother.
- Cecilia Suárez (Paulina), Dario Yazbek Bernal (Julián) and Juan Pablo Medina (Diego) do their own dubbing in English
- Veronica Castro’s first on-screen work in 8 years, the previous one being Los exitosos Pérez (2009) in 2009-10
- This series marks the third collaboration between director Manolo Caro and actress Cecilia Suárez. They previously worked together in Elvira, te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando (2014) and La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal (2016).
- Luid de la Rosa who plays Bruno, also played teen Luis Miguel in the series of the same name Luis Miguel: The Series.
- This series has 3 Ariel (Mexican Academy Award) winners Verónica Langer, Claudette Maillé, and Arturo Ríos also 3 Ariel nominees
- Cecilia Suárez, who stars on this show with Dario Yazbek Bernal, at one point dated his half brother Gael García Bernal.
- Rezc composed the series’ theme, also called “La Casa de las Flores”, as well as its incidental music. Working closely with Caro for the show, Rezc has been described as “the specialist who identifies [from Caro’s story] the best cues to dress the scene or sequence”
