Disney Plus' New Drama Is Doing Something Different: Spanish Show Return To Las Sabinas Daily Releases

The best streaming services tend to approach new episodes in different ways, so while Netflix has long offered entire seasons in single, binge-worthy bursts, companies like Prime Video and Apple TV Plus prefer to release new episodes once a week. And now Disney Plus is getting in on the action with yet another way to schedule seasons. Your new Spanish drama Return to Las Sabinaswhose first five episodes are now available, you will receive a new episode every day for the next 65 days.

That’s a lot of days and a lot of episodes for a streaming show, but Return to Las Sabinas is based on something already well established: the soap operas broadcast daily on TV networks in most parts of the world. So while this is new territory for streaming and the best shows on Disney Plus, it’s very familiar to fans of daytime TV dramas.

What is Return to Las Sabinas about?

It’s about 50 hours – ho ho! The program is presented as an original daily melodrama in the style of popular soap operas and follows two sisters, Gracia and Paloma, who return to their childhood home to care for their father. There, Gracia reconnects with her first love – but her first love is engaged to someone else, and her brother is still in love with Gracia. Drama inevitably ensues.

Soap operas and low-budget daytime dramas tend to be famous for their shaky sets and wooden performances, but this show feels different: Deadline reports it had a much bigger budget, a much longer filming schedule, and more. post-production time than usual. daytime dramas. Director Jordi Frades states that “we want people to find love, passion, drama, comedy and everything they like in a daily program, but maybe with a little upgrade”.

Return to Las Sabinas is streaming now on Disney Plus worldwide and Hulu in the US.