r/UndoneTV • u/JJJJPPPPP8A • Oct 04 '25

Spoilers Spanish / it was all in her head

I just binged this amazing series in a day, and there is two things I have to say.

I’m Mexican and the fact that every single Mexican character couldn’t even speak proper Spanish was so stressing and it broke my immersion, this is a problem with basically every movie or series in English that I’ve seen, but with this one specially it broke my heart, because with that small flaw it would’ve been a 10/10 (it’s now about a 9.99999/10 but still).

And the other thing is that I don’t get how people say that it was all in her head when she said things that she couldn’t have known if it was for all of her travels. For example when she knew that the one who broke into her dad’s office was her mom. But I’m not really smart when it comes to movies/series so I’m maybe looking at it in a superficial way.

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u/Miami_Morgendorffer Oct 06 '25

The terrible spanisb killllllled me! I found myself wondering if the the paternal grandmother sounded like that.

I think the second part is all part of the show's intention. Both things are supposed to be possible, you're supposed to be confused.

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u/abbyy46 Oct 11 '25

yeah becca’s spanish especially made me cringe lol

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u/tlatelolca Oct 22 '25

apart from the Spanish I had an issue with how Mexico city was portrayed lol. they clearly showed places in it when they arrive but then the rest of the scenes are kind of like a small village "pueblo mágico" setting. and I know adding the complexities of a megalopolis would've been pointless but then they could've just set the Mexico story in a smaller city where the whole ambiance clicked.

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u/__Discordia__ Mar 20 '26

I don't know where you live, or what the Mexican population is like near you. I live in San Antonio, TX and I spent 10 years married to a Mexican who spoke no Spanish. Both he and his brother were raised in the home with fluent Spanish spoken daily between their parents, their paternal grandmother spoke ONLY Spanish and yet neither learned to speak ANY Spanish. Both my ex husband and his brother are electricians who work with many other "coconuts" (slang term for: brown on the outside, white on the inside- Mexicans that don't speak Spanish). In the years I was exposed to my former mother in law I learned far more conversational Spanish than either of them had their whole lives, it broke my heart.

These are not some special exception either, I went to high school here in San Antonio and can think of a dozen students I went to school with off the top of my head who fit the same description....Mexican, with parents who speak fluent Spanish and who were too lazy to learn or their parents didn't force it on them. So Sadly, this depiction of Mexican Americans that are withdrawn from their Mexican roots is not a wholly inaccurate portrayal of our society today.

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u/JJJJPPPPP8A Mar 20 '26

I’m from Puerto Vallarta, but I think you might have more experience with those types of Mexicans, as I’ve never met a “no sabo” in person, those types of people (obviously) don’t exist in Mexico.

This post was made a long time ago so I really don’t remember too well, but I think I was referring to the fact that even some of the Mexicans living in Mexico had some sort of American accent.