Luis Miguel Season 2 – Episodes 1 and 2 Review

After a long wait, we’re back with Season 2 of Luis Miguel: The Series. If you haven’t read our review of Season 1 yet make sure you do that before that before continuing on.

Spoilers for Episodes 1 and 2 below

This season starts out with the mystery or Luis’s missing other continuing. Despite the cliffhanger at the end of the first season, the Mossad agent tells Micky that they still don’t know where she is. His obsession with finding her reaches it’s limits though. As he confronts his cousin, it is heavily implied that he and his father murdered Luis’s mother. Meanwhile, in the 2005 timeline, Luis Miguel is wrapping up a tour while a sleazy promoter tries to enrich himself from an extra performance.

The 2nd episode ends by Luis deciding to look forward in life, leaving his mother’s disappearance behind. He visits his daughter, whom he has never met, and seems set on a path towards correcting the mistakes of his youth in one of the best scenes of the show. By deciding not to continue the investigation into what happened to his mother, although it is heavily implied she was murdered by his father and uncle, Luis relieves one of the core tensions of the show. It’s a major development on a number of levels. It shows his maturity and growth as a person.

Cesar Bordon’s Hugo Lopez continues to be a wonderful father figure and one of the most likeable characters on the show. His storyline, which we can reasonably expect to end this season, is clearly being given more focus. I also hope that we get to see a bit more of Erika, Micky’s girlfriend. There is a lot of ground which can be covered there. The new characters in the 2005 timeline will certainly be welcome additions to the show.

Criticism

My only real criticism of the first episode is the confusion of Sergio attending the audition. Although they’re played by different actors, the young Luis Miguel from season 1 looks nearly identical to Sergio in season 2. For a brief moment I thought we had travel back to the early timeline from that first season. That wasn’t the case. Speaking of that timeline, the presence of Luisito Rey is a but missed here only because of how great his performance was in Season 1.

I likewise fear a that a bit of the show will be lost now that Luis Miguel moved on from his mother’s disappearance. There are still loose ends to that story which, I guess like in real life, we won’t receive definitive answers for. From a narrative perspective, this neutralizes one of the driving forces of the show. It seems that this will be replaced by his struggle with hearing loss caused by the show in Lima. As of now, I’m much more interested in the 1993 timeline than the 2005 one.

Overall

Overall, this season has yet to lose a step from Season 1. The new characters are set up to be welcome additions to the rest of the great ensemble. I’m curious to see where these new storylines lead us, especially given the resolution of the Marcella storyline. Both episodes of the season were great but the Hasta Que Me Olvides sequence at the end of episode 2 is amongst the best scenes in the entire series. I can’t wait for the next 6 weeks of episodes.

Scores

Episode 2.1 – 8.5/10

Episode 2.2 – 9/10

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We’ll be back next week with a review of the newest episode!