Step Aside Downton Abbey

There's a new period TV series Americans should be ready to binge watch.

If you're bored with the typical, and often times predictable British period series, you are not alone. So what makes Grand Hotel the exception?

The series begins with the ever so handsome and charming Julio Olmeda, who goes to the famous Grand Hotel to visit his newly promoted sister Cristina. Upon his arrival, he is told she was fired, yet no one knows or cares about where she disappeared to. To get to the bottom of his sister's disappearance Julio impersonates both a hotel waiter, and then a family member in the same nights to uncover the hotel's secrets.

Of course there's the typical power-struggle between the working class of the hotel, and the mysterious money troubles of the elite aka the Alarcón family business. And let's not forget all the mysterious deaths and disappearances. So with lies, adultry, mystery and more than one homicide implied within just 45 minutes, you're automatically hoping that Cristina is found sooner rather than later.

The goal of this blog is to evaluate the show from both an international appeal as an audience member, and the challenges it may encounter being a period series distributed in another language. I wish to see what differences this series utilizes to separate itself from its "Downtown Abbey" competitor.

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