It Was Always Me Season 2 Review: Two years after its first season’s premiere on Disney+, Siempre Fui Yo‘s second instalment dropped on the same streamer on January 17, 2024, with Karol Sevilla as Lupe, Pipe Bueno as Noah, José Julián Gaviria as Pipe, Juliana Velásquez as Angie, Simón Savi as Charly, Melanie Dellolmo as Zoe, Dubán Prado as Sammy, Alejandro Gutiérrez as Kevin and Christian Tappan as El Faraón leading the Colombian mystery drama series. As opposed to the previous season’s 10-part narrative, the new storyline consists of 8 episodes created by Alejandro and Iván Stoessel. Each episode has a runtime ranging between 28-38 minutes.
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Season 2 of It Was Always Me Disney Plus Review Contains No Spoilers
Siempre Fui Yo Season 2 Plot: For this new turn in the story, Lupe and her friends reunite three years after the contest to record an album on Pipe’s private island. With each of their lives branching out in different directions, the reunion album opportunity knocks at their doors with the perfect chance to get back on the same page and close the distance between each other. While Pipe has turned out to be a big shot musician in Colombia, Lupe is still weighing out her mental turmoil and struggling to pick between her vocation to be a journalist or accept the music flowing through her veins.
While getting to be on the same page isn’t as easy as it may have appeared to be initially, the friend circle’s time together is further spoiled when the special necklace in Lupe’s possession, given to her by El Faraón, is stolen. With the bubbling mystery, other tensions and secrets come to the surface gradually as their bond with each other is tainted with insecurities and uncertainties.
It Was Always Me Season 2 Review
It’s quite fascinating how this drama builds itself up as a low-budget whodunit of sorts initially as Lupe’s ancestral necklace is stolen. However, it steers clear of the grand scheme of the genre as instead of an outsider coming in to investigate the case, the suspects are restricted to their isolated disposition to make things easier for Lupe, who jumps in as the unconventional detective here, along with her best friend Angie. Despite the mystery at hand, melodrama reigns as a clearly predominant theme, because even with the thief at large, the solving of the mystery comes second to the unravelling tensions between the friends.
Their distinct relationships and dynamics keep the viewer tied in so that the mystery aspect, though still playing a big role in keeping the entertainment scale up, is pushed to the second degree of importance. Moreover, this big question mark hanging above everyone’s head about who stole the necklace works well as a rousing catalyst to stir things up emotionally and raise tensions among the group.
The frequently appeasing beauties of the surrounding location, since they’re all cooped up on an island, keep the visual brightness of the show high despite them all being in the dark about the situation at hand, which also keeps the cast mostly locked indoors, especially with the given objective of their reunion also being the album recording process. Karol and Juliana’s bestie chemistry as Lupe and Angie keeps the mood light and it easily becomes one of the most endearing elements of the storyline. Even with all uncertainties clouding their judgement, and the surge of trust issues, their friendship stays upright.
Karol Sevilla and José Julián Gaviria’s strained yet loving sibling energy also comes to the forefront as a plausible representation, and Sevilla’s on-and-off romantic crossfire with Pipe Bueno works out a vibe that keeps you hooked throughout. The overall plot is definitely nothing unheard of, but as far as soap operas go, It Was Always Me doesn’t dip into the cringe downfall by keeping its melodrama quotient balanced, which eventually makes it a good enough watch if you’re craving for some old-school mushiness that also loosely addresses the cancelling out of celebrities’ personal lives due to their larger than life glossy personas.
Even if you were to accidentally stumble upon this series without having watched its initial season, it won’t take you long to grasp an idea about who is who and get a hang of the underlying tensions shared between certain characters and their overarching implications on the bigger scene and the entire group’s dynamic. If you’re vehemently against musicals, you should step away from the show because right as you get into it, the characters often break into musical interventions that mirror their inner emotional outpour.
Since the plot is largely driven by complicated romantic subplots, the melodrama seeps in early on, but due to the actors’ praiseworthy performances it all credibly settles in and gets you engrossed into the larger issue of the necklace’s theft, supported by other subplots that tie these characters to each other’s lives. Moreover, the songs and their emotional weight, even if expressing the cliched tone of heart-aching love, are commendably appealing that you can’t help but get sucked into the drama in front of you. It’s a lot like how many viewers claiming to have no interest in reality TV can’t help but get invested in the “tea” ultimately.
Siempre Fui Yo 2: Final Thoughts
All in all, Siempre Fui Yo Season 2 is fuelled by the same-old conventions of melodrama and soap operas, but its collaboration of music and young adult drama, without any traces of vulgarity, churns out a simple TV premiere that has enough cross-connections to keep you entertained. And if you hadn’t given Colombian music a chance earlier, this series is quite likely to change your perception of it, positively.
The first two seasons of It Was Always Me are streaming in Spanish language with English subtitles on Disney+ Hotstar.
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