# La rosa de Guadalupe (2008)

> Self-contained Mexican melodramas in which ordinary people in trouble find their problems solved when the Virgin Mary's rose appears.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/28423

## Facts

- Seasons: 15
- Episodes: 901
- Episode runtime: 42 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Carlos Mercado Orduña
- Network: Las Estrellas
- Cast: Yolanda Merida, Abraham Ramos, Andrea Torre, Andrea Lagunés, Scarlet Dergal, Alfonso Iturralde, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Patricia Romero
- TMDB rating: 2.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192302/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: sentimental, earnest, devotional, melodramatic, hopeful

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series poorly, panning its simplistic, formulaic moral tales, though it has a devoted following for its faith-based storytelling.

## Synopsis

La rosa de Guadalupe (2008-2022) is a Mexican national-television anthology telenovela drama produced for Las Estrellas and created by Carlos Mercado Orduña. Rather than following one protagonist across a single arc, it presents a rotating cast of ordinary people, families, couples and children who fall into a sudden crisis of illness, betrayal, poverty, addiction or family breakdown. Each story runs its course within one episode and turns on the same engine: a character who cannot fix the trouble alone calls on the Virgin Mary, and a rose appears to set things right. The series spans fifteen seasons and roughly nine hundred episodes, with stories that unfold in contemporary Mexican towns and city neighborhoods. Its tone is earnest, sentimental and openly devotional, foregrounding tears, prayer, reconciliation and hope over suspense. Each episode carries the heightened emotional register of the telenovela tradition, so viewers drawn to soap opera melodrama or faith-centered storytelling will find the format familiar. Fans of Yo soy Betty, la fea and Pasión de gavilanes will recognize its appetite for dramatic reversals, while the parable-like structure invites comparison with classic morality anthologies. Audience reception has been poor, but the show remains a fixture of Spanish-language family viewing.

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