# Hugo Chávez, El Comandante (2017)

> A dramatized life of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, tracing his path from childhood through his rise to power, his confrontations and his loves to his final days in office.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/61254

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 102
- Episode runtime: 50 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Moisés Naím
- Network: TNT Latin America
- Cast: Andrés Parra, Julián Román, José Narvaez, Stephanie Cayo, César Manzano, Sheila Monterola, Albi De Abreu, Kristina Lilley
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6254266/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: intense, melancholic, serious, intimate

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with the single season rated respectably but the series drawing only modest engagement.

## Synopsis

Hugo Chávez, El Comandante (2017) is a Colombian, American and Venezuelan co-production aired on TNT Latin America, a Spanish-language political biopic series created by Moisés Naím. Andrés Parra plays Hugo Chávez, following him from a restless childhood through his rise to power, the confrontations that test his movement, and the romances that shape his private life. Julián Román plays Carlos Uzcátegui, one of the people around him whose loyalty and judgment are pulled in competing directions, while José Narvaez plays Iván Fonseca and Stephanie Cayo plays Mónica Zavaleta, figures tied to the political and personal turns of his career. The engine of the story is ambition colliding with a country's expectations: each stretch of the presidency brings new opposition, backroom maneuvering and foreign pressure, including scenes with a US ambassador. The show is built as a single continuing story across one season of 102 episodes, each roughly fifty minutes long, so the arc accumulates rather than resetting week to week. Its tone is intimate and serious, with a melancholic undertone as the public man and the private man keep pulling apart. Fans of Narcos, The Crown and House of Cards will find resonance in its sweeping portrait of a contested leader and the cost of power.

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