Gran Hotel fans - Velvet?

I can't say I liked Velvet as much as Gran Hotel (the only thing lately I like better than that is Poldark), but Velvet was still a lot of fun, and I got interested in the characters. It was also fascinating to see this combination of the series taking place in Madrid all in Spanish while the music was all specially written by the same composer who wrote the music for Gran Hotel, Lucio Godoy, all in various 50s styles and sung in English! There are actually quite a few actors who were in Gran Hotel that also appear in Velvet, and it's great how they play completely different characters! I'll let you find out who they are for yourself, because that's half the fun. They sometimes look so different, it takes a while to figure out who they are. I didn't keep track of how many but it seems like there were at least 6 or 7. Since you know that Llorenç González is in it, I can tell you his character is quite different from Andres. All this just makes it quite evident that these people are talented actors!

I'm trying to learn Spanish, so I've been watching these kinds of shows to help keep it in my brain. This was definitely worth it for that although they speak really, really fast sometimes though not as much of that demasiado rapido stuff as Gran Hotel had. But sometimes people even speak English, which is a lovely break. I recommend you keep going, and you'll probably start caring about the characters. Ramón Campos is a fantastic storyteller, and I think he improves as he goes. I'm watching El internado, which was one of his first projects from what I can tell, and I think he's gotten better at it as he has more experience. El internado is so far-fetched, it's hard to believe, but it has its points, too, especially for learning Spanish (I finally know most of the swear words now LOL), and it also has some of the actors who were in Gran Hotel and Velvet though they are younger, so that makes it interesting. Yon González has a lead role but plays someone much different and younger, and I don't get his Ivan character confused with Julio ever. I still watch Gran Hotel for the Spanish because it seems to be about the best of all those shows, and now Netflix has both English and Spanish subtitles, which really helps.

BTW, you also might like a show called El tiempo entre costuras (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1864750/), which is on Hulu. One of the actors in that is also in Velvet. Someone recommended Isabel, also on Hulu, but I'm having a hard time getting interested in that because so many of the characters and situations are so unpleasant. So far, I haven't recognized anyone I've seen before. ¡Disfrute!