# The Mafia Dolls (2009)

> Five young Colombian women are drawn into the orbit of El Carmen mafia men, and their lives unravel in a telenovela of love, betrayal and bleak fates.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/28911

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 58
- Episode runtime: 44 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, crime
- Created by: Andrés López López, Juan Camilo Ferrand
- Network: Caracol TV
- Cast: Amparo Grisales, Fernando Solórzano, Angélica Blandón, Andrea Gómez, Yuly Ferreira Angarita, Alejandra Sandoval, Caterin Escobar, Lincoln Palomeque
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1585368/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: melancholic, fatalistic, melodramatic, tense

## What critics say

Audiences rate the telenovela mixed, appreciating its melodramatic storytelling of women drawn into Colombian mafia worlds while finding it uneven.

## Synopsis

The Mafia Dolls (2009-2010) is a Colombian telenovela crime drama produced by BE-TV and broadcast by Caracol TV, created by Andrés López López and Juan Camilo Ferrand. Adapted from the book Las Fantásticas, it follows a circle of young women, including Brenda Navarrete (Angélica Blandón), Pamela Rojas (Andrea Gómez), Olivia Rengifo (Caterin Escobar), Violeta Manrique (Alejandra Sandoval) and Renata Gómez (Yuly Ferreira Angarita), whose romantic and social lives become tangled with mafia figures from El Carmen. Lucrecia Rivas (Amparo Grisales) and Braulio Bermúdez (Fernando Solórzano) add further pressure through schemes of money, property and power. The engine of the series is the steady pull of ambition and desire against the dangers of the criminal world, as each woman makes choices that seem promising at first and then tighten into trouble. Episodes unfold in the melodramatic rhythm of a soap, with secret deals, betrayals, romantic entanglements and sudden reversals carrying the story across a single season of fifty-eight episodes. Its tone is melancholic and fatalistic, with a heavy sense that easy beginnings always lead to hard ends. Fans of Narcos and Pablo Escobar, el patrón del mal will find resonance in its drug trade backdrop, while viewers who love Betty la fea will recognize its soap structure and emotional excess. Set in contemporary Colombia, it is a grim, sorrowful look at how fast a life can slip into the underworld.

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