She’s the star in a show which has a bilingual script, cast and crew - way different than your typical drama. Though Jasmine has a Daytime Emmy in her bag already, being a leading lady in her own show is a first. We know how big these streaming platforms are and how quickly they turn their unknown actors into celebrities. Most of them don’t have a DVR, so it’s one hour before they pay attention to you again.Ĭoming back to Carmen in Charge, the TV show Jasmine and Ashton are doing, it is set to be released globally through a streaming platform named ScreenFlix. Abuelas and tías still watch them at their houses and make you wait until it’s over to talk to you. Every single one released at the same time as the previous night. They definitely have a different format to TV shows or streaming platforms - one episode each night, five days a week.
(I even bought the CDs to sing-along with the main characters). In fact, when I was way smaller, I remember rushing home to watch my favorite kid-friendly telenovelas. Growing up in México, I saw them every single time I changed the channels. Telenovelas are a big part of Latinx culture. When Jasmine’s scandalous breakup first appears on the papers, Ashton is afraid to get close to her, because of the paparazzi and media trailing behind her. But he has secrets of his own that he needs to keep hidden. He wants to take the opportunity of co-starring in this new show to start his career in a new direction. The book has already given us one nod to telenovelas when the book introduces Ashton, the male protagonist, because up until that moment he has been doing big telenovela roles that are nevertheless small in comparison to the Hollywood stage. And it wasn’t even the main plot of You Had Me at Hola ! The show is secondary to what’s really happening between Jasmine and her love interest and co-star, Ashton Suárez. The drama, the romance, the boss moves we saw the heroines take to get what they wanted - every single detail was carefully put in this novel. The show called Carmen in Charge made me remember the telenovelas that I caught on the TV when I returned from school. Jasmine Lin Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican-Filipina actress who just got the biggest role in her life by starring in a new all-Latinx TV show.
And we, the Latinx readers, could see that as soon as we began reading it. It wasn’t just because the romance was very well crafted and the pieces in this book fit together perfectly, but also because you could see clearly how explicit the Latinx identity in the book was. Publications, like NPR and Kirkus, had nothing but great things to say about the soap opera romance. The book was delayed! It was supposed to come out in July but eventually came out on August 4th. For a moment, it seemed like the world didn’t want us to have this book.
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