History Series / DarkDesire

* AccidentalMurder: In Season 2, it turns out that [[spoiler:Dario]] killed Julieta accidentally while they struggled near the rooftop's edge, and she fell over.

* BisexualLoveTriangle: Zoe is briefly unsure whether she'd like to be with Dario or Karina, partly as she isn't sure about her sexual orientation. She soon chooses Karina though, accepting that she likes both.

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Basically all of the cast have sex (Alma and Dario most), with every episode having at least one sex scene.
* ExperimentedInCollege: Zoe sleeping with her best friend Karina (a lesbian) at first seems to be this, since after it she concludes she's straight. However, in Season 2 they're dating. When Zoe cheats on her by having sex with a guy though, Karina thinks that it was just experimental for her, to get over Dario. Zoe [[SubvertedTrope denies this though]], saying she's really been attracted to girls so long as she can remember, but also likes guys.
* FakeTwinGambit: [[spoiler:Dario]] pretends he's got an identical twin to excuse certain things he does, using some makeup so they look slightly different.

* {{Gaslighting}}: {{Discussed}} by Alma and her psychiatrist, since she's unsure if her suspicious about Darío are unsound or not. Her psychiatrist says based on what she describes he may be doing this to her. [[spoiler:Leonardo]] later gets convinced by [[spoiler:Esteban]] that he murdered Brenda, but doesn't remember it (he's innocent).

* GoneHorriblyRight: Lys's plan to spite Darío is to ruin his engagement with Julieta by sending her the sex video of him and Alma. The plan works as Julieta is understandably furious at Darío. However, it takes a turn for the worse as Darío, in a fit of rage, throws his fianceé of the roof to her death when she attempts to call the police on him.

* LipstickLesbian: Edith is a lesbian, it turns out, with very feminine looks. Leonardo finds it funny as a result that Alma believed he was involved with her.

* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[spoiler:Lys]] is incredulous at [[spoiler:Dario]]'s declaration that she raped him (since they had sex when he was underage) saying he'd enjoyed it.

* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Dario]] it turns out was raped by his aunt/foster mother, who took advantage of him as a minor.

** [[spoiler:Dario]] was also raped by his aunt/foster mother, who took advantage of him as a minor.
* SexGod: Dario is apparently ''very'' skilled at sex, since every women he's had it with seems highly satisfied and also often rushes back to have more (even when otherwise the relationship was horrible).

* TheirFirstTime: Zoe has sex with Darío on a blanket while out for a picnic, and it's explicitly her first time with a man.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Alma masturbates at one point thinking about Darío. Later he does the same thing when fantasizing of them having sex.

* CoitusEnsues: Alma and Brenda are shown in a number of sex scenes which are pretty gratuitous (but non-explicit). Few of them are really necessary to show with such detail (not that many viewers [[{{Fanservice}} will complain]]). Zoe later also gets into the action.

* ClosetKey: Zoe having sex with her friend Karina reveals to her that she likes woman, not just men.

* PlayingGertrude: Maite Perroni, who plays Alma, was born only fifteen years before Regina Pavón, who portrays Alma's daughter Zoe.

* PosthumousCharacter: Brenda dies in the second episode. However, she appears continually afterward in {{flashback}}s. Same goes for Julieta in the second season.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While it's really hard for Alma to trust Esteban after he's released prematurely from jail and Zoe, a very clingy and annoying teengaer to put up with, keeps complaining about it, she makes good points concerning the consequences of Alma and Darío's affair. That Alma's family and marriage was wholly screwed up because she hooked up with a 25-year-old man? ''Valid''. And because of it and being divorced from Leonardo, Alma can no longer get employed and is now forced to live by herself at her parents' old house, even calling that ''not normal''? ''A bit too far and insensitive''.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Alma clearly has some unidentified attachment problems, after everything happened between her and Dario in the final of Season 1. A year later, she is still a wreck suffering from PTSD, has sexual nightmares with him, hallucinates seeing him everywhere, is incapable of moving on from what happened and crumbles in the middle of the night after watching a video with him.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While it's really hard for Alma to trust Esteban after he's released prematurely from jail and Zoe, a very clingy and annoying teengaer to put up with, keeps complaining about it, however, she makes good points concerning the consequences of Alma and Darío's affair. That Alma's family and marriage was wholly screwed up because she hooked up with a 25-year-old man? ''Valid''. And because of it and being divorced from Leonardo, Alma can no longer get employed and is now forced to live by herself at her parents' old house, even calling that ''not normal''? ''A bit too far and unsensitive''.

* PosthumousCharacter: Brenda dies in the second episode. However, she appears continually afterward in {{flashback}}s.

BigBadEnsemble: Darío and [[spoiler:Lys]] in the second season. Darío accidentally murders [[spoiler:Julieta, his soon-to-be wife]] and makes up a doppelganger in an attempt to save both himself and his inheritance. Alma falls for it initially. Lys, on the other hand, seeks revenge on Darío, for abandoning her when they initiated an incestous relationship. She is revealed to have sent the postcard of Darío and Julieta's wedding to Alma's doorstep, then sent Julieta the porn video of Alma and Darío.