The Desperate Housewives star’s Spain-set series is the TV equivalent of comfort food. It’s full of romance, warmth and gorgeous countryside – even if it won’t set the world alight
Enjoy it with the 75% of your attention it was designed for … Carmen Maura, Victoria Bazua and Eva Longoria in Land of Women.Enjoy it with the 75% of your attention it was designed for … Carmen Maura, Victoria Bazua and Eva Longoria in Land of Women.
This is the new vehicle for Eva Longoria, still best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives more than a decade ago . Here she plays Gala, an affluent and happily married New Yorker of Spanish extraction and mother of one who is countering empty nest syndrome as her daughter begins university by opening a wine shop. Yes, a … wine shop. It was clearly the first thing that came to the writers’ minds to signify happiness, wealth, New Yorkery and go-gettery. Don’t dwell on it.
But where to go? As luck would have it Julia still owns, with her estranged sister, a house in a beautiful rural village in Spain. Gala sells her jewellery, straps the resulting $50,000 in cash under a profoundly unsuitable shift dress and off they go. Gala has a meet cute with her love interest by performing Meet Cute No 3a – running him off the road while distracted by an argument in a new car she can’t drive very well . Amat , whose name is like the Spanish word for “love”, don’t know if you noticed, is at first furious with then inexplicably drawn to the lavishly beautiful and charismatic woman who did it.
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