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Why the fuck did they make siempre bruja look like it was gonna be about revenge from an afro latina witch, but it’s just about an Afro latina witch in love with her slave owner. So disappointed.
siempre bruja has so much potential outside of that ugly trope, theres so much more to explore about carmen, her powers, and her lineage
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Siempre Bruja on Netflix
what in the black history month?
Whew...this was not what I was expecting. The only thing I knew from pre-premiere internet chatter was that the main character, Carmen, was a slave in Colombia who ends up in the 21st century. Okay. My expectation was witch slave gets pulled between the past and the future to fuck shit up save her life and others. Just didn't realize that others was mainly Carmen's master's son master (shown for like a split second in the trailer), Cristóbal, whose possible death is the catalyst that sends her to the future to resurrect him.
From the moment the Carmen and Cristóbal storyline was introduced, the series became irredeemable. When Carmen arrives in 2019 Cartagena, she barely acknowledges the differences in the future, and pretty much never addresses her blackness (there's literally a scene where her white girlfriends tell her they're jealous of how nicely "tanned" she is 😕) or the fact that black people aren't slaves in the future. The only thing she can think about is saving Cristóbal.
Cristóbal and Carmen
I get that she's 18, naive, and Stockholm Syndromed "in love", but no amount of this is going to get me to not even acknowledge the freedom I possess after being in bondage, nor ignore that the majority of my people are no longer in chains. It could've taken the rest of episode 1 5 minutes to address this.
The subplot, mainplot?
In the present-day Carmen and her fellow witches are in danger from a powerful wizard named Lucien, who either gets a witch to submit themselves to his service (slavery. again.) or kills them. Essentially Carmen goes straight from slave to magical negress in her own story 'chosen one" to save the witches (they barely showed another black woman on this show and so far none of the modern witches are black) from Lucien. The Lucien storyline is actually interesting, in a Witches of East End twisted way, more so seeing Carmen come into her own as a witch. Jhony Ki is interesting to watch, much the mess he is (wait...he's supposed to be 16??). But as much I wanted the show to get better (i.e. Carmen forgetting Cristóbal), it doesn't.
The cast for the most part can act, they have chemistry. The Colombian scenery is beautiful. But, it's hard to get past a story about a slave finding her way to the future and desperately trying to get back to the past slavery, so she can save her owner's (as the son she is still his property too) life because she "loves(?)" him. It's kind of insulting. They marketed this as a story of empowerment and I have yet to see Carmen be empowered through her eagerness to risk anything to save/protect the life of the man who owned her. They could've found any other reason to get her to the present to focus on the Lucien storyline, especially since it seems like Lucien may have been apart of her life for a long time. This reminds me a little of the Sookie/Warlow relationship on True Blood which was also all kinds of f*cked up. If not for the Carmen/Cristóbal relationship, Siempre Bruja could've been so much better.
Also it's 2019, let's stop romanticizing slave/Slave-master relationships.
New trailer for Siempre Bruja: Always a Witch!
Alguien ya tomo su lugar!!! Pide el tuyo con @paquitolaroye #baphomet #amigurumi #siemprebruja #newmoon #getstartedparty #Witches #witchboy #regalitosmágicos (en Ejército de Oriente II, Iztapalapa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHl6v8vhEqj/?igshid=g15k6h0lglao
I had fun yesterday watching season 2 of @siempre.bruja 🧙🏿♀️😂 #siemprebruja #netflix #season2 #siemprebrujatemporada2 (en Madrid, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9RM_LDBKUa/?igshid=zw4ft15kevfk
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