The Marked Heart season 2 follows Simón and Camila struggling to navigate the hellscape that Zacarías offers them as his revenge.
Story
Zacarías learns the truth about Camila’s staged death. Always looking over her shoulder and evading killers, Camila has to depart for Mexico, where Zacarías ensnares her, while Simón is dragged into his gameplan too.
Samantha’s life is at risk, thanks to Zacarías, and Camila needs to make an offer to save her, but her ex wants to see Simón suffer the way he did. To save his daughter, he must come up with the money for a heart transplant.
Tomás goes to great lengths to procure funds and ends up getting himself and Simón in a precarious situation. Simón’s bravery helps produce a miracle that can help Samantha but Zacarías ensures that little flame is also snuffed out.
However, his obsession with Camila and his revenge makes things difficult for him. Cardenás eventually learns of his connections with the Organization and Fausto learns of them too. Media frenzy and police investigations, amid political upheaval causes Zacarías and Cardenás’s fall.
Samantha is finally saved but, unbeknownst to her, the savior is the last person she would want it to be.
Performances
Michel Brown brings the same intensity and emotions to his portrayal of Simón and at one point certain characters themselves point out just how Simón is always the intense, emotional freak.
Ana Lucía Domínguez is phenomenal in her role as well, as she conveys the guilt, desperation, and frustrations with a perfomance most commendable.
However, it’s perhaps Sebastian Martínez who renders a truly moving performance as the obsessive lunatic Zacarías.
Positives
The Marked Heart season 2 can be touching and even riveting at times, especially when the makers play the hand right. The performances only help highlight the drama and also build it.
The central storyline and the motivations therein make for an entertaining binge, even if they lifts off themes and characterizations from cheesy 90s films.
The villain’s relentlessly cruel ways make him a compelling character, and even it his redemptive come around at the end seems hasty, there are glimpses in him of a human who’s not entirely evil, which is always a good set of traits a good villlain must have.
Negatives
The Marked Heart season 2 is a chore to get through at times, with not enough happening in the storylines it follows that they must deserve 10 long episodes.
The loose ends in episode 10 are extremely unsatisfying and things seem to be left under clouds of ambiguity for most-likely a third season, but a nice little wrap on several storylines it spends developing for so long would have been ideal.
Pinky’s storyline seems the most unnecessary and her screentime only serves to prolong the show.
Verdict
The Marked Heart season 2 is rife with the soap opera elements that both work and don’t work. Over the course of ten episodes, the show drags out its central storyline and what could be an affair confined to half the amount of episodes, ends up becoming a soppy bore.
Also Read: Oh Belinda review: Sloppy remake fails to recreate impact
