[Caipirabob]

Have you watched one of these? My wife watches or records them all the time. I actually like the period-dramas. American networks have such a stigma of bias and corruption to them. Many of the Spanish or Portuguese translated to Spanish soap operas are kind of there as well, but you still get caught up in them.

They used to be pretty cheesy, but they've come a long way.

The worst one I saw was in Brasil called "Deus Ajudanos". An wealthy old jerk was dying and his kin wanted to get rid of him. First, he died of a stroke. Then each family member sneaked into the room separately and killed him by one method or another, not leaving a mark so that the next person thought they were killing him. Pretty funny, but you could smell the cheese - lol!

"Betty La Fea" was popular enough to translate into English.

And the women...the women...SI! ; D

[La Lydia]

I watch them all the time. Several years ago they did an excellent Zorro.