Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a new show on Netflix (it previously came out as 20 30 min episodes in Israel. Netflix has made it into 10 hour long episodes). It follows the Hermosas, a wealthy Sephardic family who own a shop in Machane Yehuda in Jerudalem. Gabriel runs the shop, his overbearing mother Mercada runs his life, including his marriage to his wife, Rosa, and eventually their daughters, including Luna, the eldest. The show is heavy on scandal–affairs, terrorism, threats of marriages between sephardim and ashkenazim–and looks closely at life in Palestine in the teens, twenties, and thirties.
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