I love these characters to pieces. The focus on femininity and purity culture in Latino cultures was important and refreshing. Consuelo is an inspiration, she is who I want to be. Her growth and embracement of her strength, with womanhood rather than in rejection of it, is inspiring. Maria Sereno deserves the world. I could talk for hours about the implication of how women are treated, how they find strength in one another, and what it means to be a culture of silence. Brilliant! And written in such a beautiful and often comedic way that you can sometimes forget the intensity of the situations until things reach their crescendo.