# Lying Heart (2016)

> An orphan returns after fifteen years to confront the powerful man who wronged her family, tangled in a love triangle with his eldest son.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/89342

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 71
- Episode runtime: 44 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Caridad Bravo Adams
- Network: Las Estrellas
- Cast: Thelma Madrigal, Pablo Lyle, Dulce María, Diego Olivera, Alejandro Tommasi, Mayrín Villanueva, Alexis Ayala, Lourdes Reyes
- TMDB rating: 6.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5373374/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melodramatic, passionate, heated, wistful

## What critics say

Audiences gave the telenovela a mixed-to-middling reception, with its melodramatic romance and villainy drawing mild praise and criticism alike.

## Synopsis

Lying Heart (Corazón que miente) (2016) is a Mexican telenovela created by Caridad Bravo Adams for Las Estrellas. Mariela Salvatierra (Thelma Madrigal), an orphan who was eleven when her grandfather died, returns from abroad with her guardian Leonardo del Rio (Diego Olivera) fifteen years later to confront Demián Ferrer (Alejandro Tommasi), a powerful and unscrupulous businessman. Her quest for justice is complicated by her romance with Alonso Ferrer (Pablo Lyle), Demián's eldest son, who cannot bring himself to turn against his father. The engine of the series is this tangle of love and hatred: Renata (Dulce María), a manipulative newcomer who moves into the Ferrer household, schemes to pull Alonso away from Mariela and push Mariela toward another suitor who loves her. Told across seventy-one episodes in a single continuing storyline, the show is built from confrontations in the family home, secret alliances, and emotional reversals. Its tone is melodramatic and heated, with romance, betrayal and a wounded sense of injustice at its center. Set in a contemporary Mexican milieu, it offers the familiar pleasures of the telenovela form. Fans of Rosalinda, La usurpadora and Rubí will find resonance in its lavish family conflict and passionate romantic rivalries.

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