History Series / LaMadrastra

* AlternateEnding: It has one in which [[spoiler: it was not Demetrio the murderer, but Fabiola, who had been blackmailed by Patricia, who was about to tell everyone about the existence of Fabiola and Bruno's retarded son. In this ending, Fabiola is sent into a asylum and Demetrio is able to live a happy life reunited with his son.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Bruno and Fabiola abandon their newborn son after he is born with severe physical deformities. Demetrio and Carmela/Alba also abandon their son Ángel and allow Esteban to raise him as his own.]]

* VillainousIncest: Alba's burning love for her nephew, Esteban, whom she raised following the deaths of his parents when he was young, brings this trope disturbingly close to ParentalIncest, too.

''La madrastra'' is a 2005 Mexican [[SoapOpera telenovela]], based actually on a Chilean one from TheEighties. It stars Victoria Ruffo as María Fernández Acuña, an [[TheIngenue ingenue young woman]] who, due to a gross MiscarriageOfJustice, is incarcerated for twenty years for the murder of her friend Patricia, which she did not commit.

-->-- '''Joel McHale''', ''Series/TheSoup''

-->--'''María Fernández Acuña''', Episode 2

->"I can think of fifteen network shows that I ''understand'' that aren't this good!"
-->--'''[[TheSoup Joel McHale]]'''

''La madrastra'' is a 2005 Mexican {{telenovela}}, based actually on a Chilean one from TheEighties. It stars Victoria Ruffo as María Fernández Acuña, an [[TheIngenue ingenue young woman]] who, due to a gross MiscarriageOfJustice, is incarcerated for twenty years for the murder of her friend Patricia, which she did not commit.

* [[spoiler: AlternateEnding: In the AE it was not Demetrio the mureder, but Fabiola, who had been blackmailed by Patricia, who was about to tell everyone about the existence of Fabiola and Bruno's retarded son. In this ending, Fabiola is sent into a asylum and Demetrio is able to live a happy life reunited with his son.]]
* TheAughts
* CaughtOnTape: Patricia's murder.

* [[spoiler: CreepyChild: A TV special that narrates the end of the story, 10 years after the events of the series, with all the young couples now with children, including Angelito, Angel and Alma's son. For some reason, he turned out to be an evil kid, easily manipulated by Demetrio, his grandfather, into doing evil things to his family, as a personal vengeance against them. And the boy enjoys it. Weirdly enough, the moment he sees Demetrio fighiting against Esteban, he realizes that he's evil, he made him do evil things and has a HeelFaceTurn by the end of the show]].
* DeusExMachina: The convenient video tape of Patricia's murder, which despite ostensibly being home footage and not from a security camera, somehow involves numerous camera angles and cuts between the principle actors. Let's not even start on who is supposed to have recorded the footage...

* MonochromeCasting: Despite the fact that the vast majority of the Mexican population is mestiz@, the entire main cast is noticeably paler than average.

* SerialKiller: The mysterious culprit

* TookALevelInDumbass: Almost every character in the whole series, right a month or so before the end, from the main character (no surprise, actually) to the villains. By this time, a new telenovela was already announced, so people were actually already waiting for this story to finally come to an end. The new telenovela finally aired, but LaMadrastra didn't end yet, it only took a change of schedule.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Almost every character in the whole series, right a month or so before the end, from the main character (no surprise, actually) to the villains. By this time, a new telenovela was already announced, so people were actually already waiting for this story to finally come to an end.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Almost every character in the whole series, right before a month or so before the end, from the main character (no surprise, actually) to the villains. By this time, a new telenovela was already announced, so people were actually already waiting for this story to finally come to an end.

* SerialKiller

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The final ten or fifteen episodes in particular, in which [[spoiler: Esteban and Daniela are tried jointly in Aruba for Patricia's murder, despite there being no assumption or implication that the two committed the crime together. The red high-heeled killer is eventually revealed to be none other than Demetrio, whose masculinity had been so badly battered by the women in his life that he became a CreepyCrossdresser who [[ReligionOfEvil worships la Santa Muerte]] and is generally crazy.]] WTF.
** [[spoiler: In the AlternateEnding, it was not Demetrio, but Fabiola, who had been blackmailed by Patricia about the secret of her retarded son.]]

-->"I can think of fifteen network shows that I ''understand'' that aren't this good!"
-->--'''[[TheSoup Joel McHale]]