The last chapter of Luis Miguel, the series: the secrets of the most hated despair naughty until the end

If anything taught us in the first season of


Luis Miguel, the series
about


Luis Miguel
of flesh and blood, the one that appears in the credits as an executive producer of fiction based on his life that is a phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world and beyond, is that he always knew
how to reinvent yourself as a product of popular culture. In the streaming times, he has put aside his gift, that wonderful voice that has made him the Mexican Sun from the age of 11 to today, and he has grasped what it is. he had kept under seven keys,
their intimacy, to launch it into cyberspace converted into
a soap opera loaded with the most macabre condiments: child exploitation, addictions, excesses, novels, millions of dollars scams, corruption, impunity, and this mystery that runs through history as a central conflict, generating empathy and compbadion until the paroxysm,
the disappearance of the star's mother

[ATENCIÓN, HAY SPOILERS] Throughout 13 episodes, the details of the singer's life were revealed, his ascent became the megastar of the song that he is and how some his links were forged important But it's the question of where his mother, Marcela Basteri, who has become as infuriating to the audience as she was for the protagonist of this history. And if the last chapter, available since last night on Netflix, supposed the revelation of the truth, it advances with 50 minutes of subtlety to leave the door open to a second season imminent.

Micky (


Diego Boneta
) goes to the private jet of his father-in-law, billionaire Jaime (Javier Gómez), to see Luis Rey (Oscar Jaenada) on his deathbed. The facts coincide with the letter with what happened according to
the biographer of the singer, Javier León Herrera, author of the book on which the writers were based. In fiction, the artist only wants to see his father before dying to force him to tell him what happened to his mother. In reality, only God knows what feelings Luis Miguel has fed for who his father was, the creator of his career, his hero and his great disappointment, and the supposed responsible for the disappearance of Marcela Basteri (Anna Favella). The truth is that if Luis Miguel wanted to tell this story and put his money to solve it, he also wanted
show the world the image of a father that he has: an unscrupulous, perverse and manipulative father until the moment to utter his last words. "You already know where he is," is all that the young Sol receives in response, and then Luis Rey dies, leaving the singer – and the audience – with the most desperate question open. However, the scenario adds an element of relentless tension to ensure a captive audience in the new season: the director of the Sun, Hugo López (César Bordón), appears with the research conducted by El Mossad. "They found your mother." Everything makes you think that the folder that gives you
contains the "rugged details" about the disappearance of the woman who has already spoken and published the biographer of the singer. At this point, the public already understands that the truth will never be explicit in this fiction. Probably not in the mouth of the singer

But Luis Rey did not take the secret of the grave. In the last episode, a character shows his darkness, which probably turns him into a new villain: Tito (Martín Bello), Rey's cousin and his henchman in all his rackets. Although during the first season he is presented as a secondary character, whose function is to support the father of the Sun but who seems to take care of his young nephew, in the last chapter reveals to have the same Machiavellian personality as his cousin and while he dies, blackmails Luis Miguel's director. He asks for money in exchange for not talking to the press about the illness that ends with the life of the creator of the Sun, a disease that is considered in his words "a shame". Until then, what the fiction tells about Rey's health, is that he has galloping cirrhosis and pneumonia. But all indications are that he has also contracted HIV. Luis Rey died in December 1992, a time when AIDS was progressing like a hidden epidemic in the taboo of badually transmitted diseases, where people who suffered from it were discriminated against and where information on the virus was retained. Tito's attitude and what is currently known to him – who was giving interviews in exchange for cash details of the Sun's private life – suggest that this character will be responsible for putting the clubs on the flying to Luis Miguel in a new season.

While the suspense about these two extreme situations facing Luis Miguel – the death of his father and the truth about his mother's fate – is treated with excellence all Throughout the episode between flash back and flash forward, the rest of the issues raised in the series are reluctantly resolved: the conflict behind the singer's fatherhood is only used as a reason for crisis between him and his new girlfriend , Erica (Camila Sodi), a dramatic element in the service of the line of romantic intrigue. Why did not you recognize your daughter in three years? Who is the mother? What do you feel for her and the girl? None of this appears and makes this line absolutely insubstantial and dispensable. On the other hand, the episodes devoted to connecting the kitchen of
Romance ,
the boleros record produced by Armando Manzanero who revived Luis Miguel's career in the 90s, deflated with a finale that only states the event and lets it settle as a completely secondary theme.

Finally, the new blow is envisaged It will ravage the already lonely artist: the end-stage illness of Hugo López, the Argentine who helped him to let go of his father's hand and to make their way. The second season, if it is over, will show Luis Miguel more alone than ever.