YMMV / Argentina, Tierra de Amor y Venganza

• Accidental Innuendo: Raquel once said "yo toco todo todo todo". It may sound dirty, but she was talking about playing the piano
• Broken Base: Alicia. Some fans hate her for forcing herself as Also's girlfriend, her disdain for any person other than Aldo and her brother (including Aldo's family), and her frequent "The Cat Came Back" scenes, usually interrupting scenes between Aldo and Raquel. Others love her because of her The Ditz antics, her Affably Evil attitude and being a comic relief into an otherwise dark and tragic series.
• Complete Monster: Samuel Trauman runs a brothel filled with women forced into prostitution. These women are found by his agent Alfreda in European countries ravaged by wars, and brought under the pretense that they would get married to a rich landlord in Argentina. Once in the country, they are unpersoned, renamed to make it difficult to track them, and kept as prisoners inside the brothel, never allowed to leave. Trauman stays in business thanks to a network of Corrupt Politicians, Dirty Cops and trigger-happy bodyguards. When criticized, he argues that he is providing a public service, and that he is a benefactor who rescued those women from poverty and gave them a job. Trauman has an absolute contempt for everyone, including his wife and his Ignored Enamored Underling Madame Ivonne. As Aldo Ferretti managed to freed Raquel, one of his prostitutes, Trauman seduced Aldo's sister Ana to kidnap and sell her newborn baby first and try to force her into the prostitution network. Despite being a Jew, Trauman is a Persona Non Grata among the Jewish community and longs to be accepted in it; but when a rabbi gave him a chance to talk things he could not find a single sin to repent.
• Designated Villain: Subverted with Alicia. She takes on the role of Aldo and Raquel's antagonist, but mainly because she is in love with the former and, as the spoiled brat as she is, she does not give up on him easily. However, she is also aware of many atrocities that her brother does, and she doesn't attempt to do something about it as long as she maintains her upper class life.
  • This is finally thrown out of the window after she captured Raquel and sent her back to the brothel.
• Memetic Mutation: Gabriel Morel had an arc when he was convinced that he was adopted and started looking for his real father. And the references to "Papa Luchetti" followed in short order.
• Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Tomás Kirzner, son of Adrian Suar (the owner of the studios that produced this) first appears as a random guy that frequents Trauman's brothel. Of course, that wouldn't be everything about him. He was actually a police officer, working incognito to gather information about the brothels in order to take them down.
• Special Effect Failure: When Raquel falls to the river. In the close-up, made by the actress, she lets herself fall to her back. In the falling scene seen from the distance, surely made with a Stunt Double, she's falling looking in the direction of the river.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Toro has died, leaving Francesca a widow right before the wedding, and Raquel has been kidnapped and returned to the brothel. Alicia then shows up and insists on their wedding, on kissing, on staying there watching the stars, etc. Aldo is finally pushed over the edge, ignores all the death threats of Torcuato and starts yelling at Alicia that he does not like her and they'll never be together. And he doesn't know yet that Alicia was the one that returned Raquel to the brothel...
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: After getting married with Cordoba, Ana became such an insufferable bitch (even flirting with the guy that had left her pregnant and abandoned her) that few people thought ill of Cordoba when he cheated on her.