Adapting King Lear, however loosely, has been a longtime favorite television pastime and most audiences would have recognized the link to recent semi-updates like Succession or Empire without the literary bikini-signaling.Here, the patriarch is John Ortiz’s Joe Sandoval, boss at Heritage House, a Sonoma (played by Georgia) vineyard that’s one of the largest wine producers in the country. For reasons nobody even attempts to articulate, the time has come for Joe to pass the company along to his kids, even though he and wife Lettie (Cecilia Suárez) are too young for there to be any real imperative. Joe and Lettie have a blended family and one of the show’s more confusing aspects is trying to remember or care which kids go with whom and making sense of the timeline around them.Promised Land Season 1 Download.
The logical successor is Veronica (Christina Ochoa), the daughter who has basically been running things with Joe. Other contenders for the Heritage House throne include Antonio (Tonatiuh), whose coming-out Joe handled poorly, and ultra-ambitious and frustratingly overlooked Mateo (Augusto Aguilera). Poolside reader Carmen (Mariel Molino) isn’t apparently under serious consideration for leadership, but she may be a marketing genius, while youngest kid Junior (Miguel Angel Garcia) is still in high school. The only urgency in the family business is caused by Margaret Honeycroft (Bellamy Young), a hotel magnate with a history with the vineyard and the Sandoval family.
Oh and meanwhile, there’s a parallel narrative involving sisters Juana (Katya Martin) and Rosa (Ariana Guerra), who cross the border illegally and make their way up to Sonoma, where they meet Carlos (Andres Velez), whose brother works at Heritage. ABC wants critics to pretend that there’s a twist involving the parallel narrative and not to reveal it. There isn’t.The parallel narrative has an uncomfortable balance of stereotypes and subversions of stereotypes relating to the new immigrant experience, and it’s impossible for me to say after two episodes if the things it does smartly (including far more subtitled Spanish-language dialogue than most broadcast shows would ever attempt