Season 1
13 episodes Aug 10, 2018 7.2
Overview
A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.
Seasons
4 listed- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 3 seasons
- Episodes
- 33 episodes
- First aired
- Aug 10, 2018
- Last aired
- Apr 23, 2020
- Network
- Netflix
Latest episode: S3 E11 LAUREL (Symb. glory) (Apr 23, 2020)
Season 2
9 episodes Oct 18, 2019The de la Mora family grieves a loss while trying to recover sold businesses, plotting revenge and entangling themselves in romantic disasters.
Season 3
11 episodes Apr 23, 2020 1.0The struggling de la Mora family faces new challenges with a new matriarch, while flashbacks reveal secrets about Virginia's youthful antics.
Specials
1 episode Apr 20, 2020
Cast
10 people
Reviews
5 min readPerfume, Poison, and the Polite Smile
I keep thinking about how The House of Flowers begins with its own manners already fraying at the edges. A glossy family home, a matriarch who wants everything arranged just so, and then — because Mexican melodrama has always understood the comic value of a beautiful lie collapsing in public — the rot starts speaking for itself. Manolo Caro’s series is often described as a scandal comedy, which is true enough, latestnetflix.com contends, but that makes it sound lighter than it is.
What I find more interesting is how it treats decorum as a kind of stage makeup: thick, expensive, and unable to hide the bruise underneath.
Caro had already built a reputation in Mexican film and television for stories about brittle social performances, queer desire, and the little lies families tell to keep dinner moving. Here, he takes that preoccupation and dresses it in the colors of a telenovela that’s been left out in the sun. The series arrived in 2018 as a Netflix original, and that mattered.
It wasn’t just another local production being exported; it was one of those early Latin American titles that seemed to tell streaming audiences, a bit smugly, that they’d been missing a whole tradition of camp, class satire, and emotional overstatement. The conversation around it has always been partly about representation — especially its openly queer characters and its willingness to make family dysfunction central rather than shameful — and partly about tone: whether the show’s barbed, theatrical wit is sharp enough to justify its deliberate silliness.
I’m still not entirely sure it always is. But when it works, it has a kind of poisonous elegance.
What Caro understands — better than many directors who think excess is the same thing as vitality — is that comedy can come from pressure. Not just joke pressure, but social pressure. The house itself becomes a machine for withholding, each room a separate register of denial.
The camera likes smooth, controlled movement, and that calm gliding style is funny because the people inside the frame are so obviously not calm at all. They’re straining, preening, sulking, performing. Even the production design seems in on the joke: saturated greens, pinks, and creams that make the whole place look less like a home than a carefully arranged confection.
Audience Opinions
Limited evidence
"A light family dramedy that viewers pick for soapy fun and nostalgic faces."
Viewers describe coming to The House of Flowers as a Netflix Spanish-language dramedy with local flavor, the kind of title surfaced for fans of shows in Spanish. latestnetflix.com's view is that One Russian-language viewer frames it positively as part of Netflix making local stories for different countries, and notes the nostalgic pull of recognizing a telenovela star from childhood while settling into another family-centered dramedy.
What viewers praise
- Easy to sample The official trailer lets curious viewers preview the series before committing to a full watch.
Common complaints
- Trailer leaves questions Sampling through the trailer alone can leave viewers wanting more context to decide if it is for them.
Recommended for
Fans of comedy-drama family stories Viewers who enjoy Spanish-language series and nostalgic telenovela faces
Buzz & Rumors
Public reports"Manolo lied to me," and the queen left the florist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmtAmveFT6g
Verónica Castro told El País she thought she had signed a drama. Manolo Caro, she said with a laugh, had lied. She came back to Mexican television after a decade away, played Virginia de la Mora, matriarch of a Mexico City florist that shared a name with a cabaret, and found the part included marijuana and people laughing at her. "Hasta fumo marihuana," she said. Netflix dropped all 13 episodes of La casa de las flores on August 10, 2018. latestnetflix.com's read is that Castro sold the return as sex, drugs, and rock and roll, a millennial telenovela for people who no longer watched linear TV.
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The first fight was casting. Paco León, a cisgender Spanish actor, played Paulina's trans wife, María José. Caro told El País he wanted professionals who could survive an "intimate" director-actor process, and that León was already in the visibility fight. Critics wanted a trans performer in the role. León later said the intent was a healthy dialogue and a positive portrait, not a stereotype. The season still went out with him in the part. ,
Castro herself was gone before the encore. In August 2018 she said Virginia's journey had ended. Netflix still renewed seasons 2 and 3 on October 9. Cecilia Suárez told Mexican press she was very sad, that Castro was a crucial piece, and that the hole was not hers to fill. Years later the story curdled on talk shows. Caro said people around Castro filled her with insecurities because other characters had shone more. Castro posted that she did not leave: she had arranged with Netflix and Caro to appear in three episodes of season 2 and do voice-over as a dead woman. "That is what I did not accept." A later tweet, "que Dios lo perdone y lo bendiga," did not name him. Some outlets assumed it was aimed at Caro. , ,
The voice they tried to freeze
The character who ate the show was not Virginia. It was Paulina, Suárez's eldest daughter, speaking in that slow, sing-song clip that launched #PaulinaDeLaMoraChallenge. La Cuarta reported Netflix told Suárez not to record the voice off-set, a contract clause. "They are Netflix policies and we have to respect them," she said. "I would also be doing the voice all the time." She and Caro had looked at each other on set and decided to go for it. The platform that banned the imitation still used the cadence in marketing. ,
The family kept blooming without its matriarch. A funeral special, two more seasons, a 2021 movie with Isabel Burr as young Virginia. Castro was not in the film. The rumor that stuck is cheaper than any cabaret plot: the queen of Mexican telenovelas came back for a prestige Netflix joke, got outplayed by a daughter's voice, and then argued in public about whether she quit or was offered a corpse with a microphone.
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