Jada Galassini

I found the first 9 episodes of this series to feel more like another one of the Quintanilla’s poor attempts at portraying a healthy perfect family despite what has come to light in recent years. Selena is portrayed as, in my opinion, lacking back bone and substance; with a complete angel-like persona. The series dives into the brother and the father and their trials and tribulations, but leaves Selena without a voice. The book To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez gives a beautiful insight into the person behind the performer; giving enough detail to get to know her, but leaving enough out to respect the singer’s personal privacy. In Chris’s book, he reveals a side of Selena that her family does not want us to know about; one that was often tremendously overwhelmed and overworked by her father and the demands of the family business and often pondered choosing a new path for her life. There’s so much to Selena the person and what happened in her 23 years of life that the series simply left out in order to portray her story and family as wholesome as possible. Selena was a very intelligent, feisty, daring, and brave woman who was also a human being who made mistakes and had wants and needs of her own. The series fails to show us that Selena.