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Queen of the South - Season 1
Teresa's drug-dealer boyfriend gets murdered so she decides to run from Mexico and settle in America. There she starts her own drug handling kingdom which leads her to become the wealthiest women in the world.
3 July 1977, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
28 April 1966, Medford, Oregon, USA
10 September 1977, Copenhagen, Denmark
June 27, 2016
It's hard to tell just how smoothly this cultural exchange will run from week to week, but the decision to arrange it between these two particular countries has placed Queen Of The South in the perfect position to continue to tell her story.
June 30, 2016
"Queen of the South" is far from the best modern TV has to offer. But for all its amped up aesthetics, I'm not sure it even wants to be part of the club.
June 23, 2016
Alice Braga crushes Queen of the South's broken, beaten, yet tenacious lead role, but the story surrounding her is compiled of nothing you haven't seen, heard, or gasped at 100 times before in a dozen better shows.
June 27, 2016
If potential was cocaine, this show would have mounds of it piled up on the coffee table.
August 05, 2016
The action is choreographed with kinetic propulsion; Alejandro Martinez's photography colourfully presents an adventure in wild places; and the trajectory of the complex plot, with its different story arcs, is impossible to guess.
July 22, 2016
In the first five episodes that have aired so far, it's the resourceful female characters' struggles to be seen as something more than single-use that give Queen of the South its moderate surprises and satisfactions.
June 27, 2016
There's nothing that sets it apart from, well, most shows, and any attempt to break out of the typical drama structure comes off as forced and unnecessary.
June 27, 2016
The show sells us on the idea that pretty, wide-smiling Teresa can become a capable, even vicious, defender of her own hide when threatened, and that Queen of the South might be able to tell a familiar story in a fresh way.
June 28, 2016
Gritty, violent drug cartel story has strong female lead.
