Queen Of The South

  • NewsKen Tucker

    ‘Queen of the South’: Who’s the Real Queen Here?

    Queen of the South, which premiered last week on USA, looked like a reasonably promising new crime show about the rise of a young drug runner, Teresa Mendoza, played by Alice Braga. The pilot had a lot of action and made Teresa a compelling figure, but I wondered where the show would go after introducing its premise and characters. Well, I’ve now seen Thursday night’s second episode as well as a third hour, and I can tell you it’s a good show with a supporting player who, to my thinking, becom

  • NewsKen Tucker

    ‘Queen of the South’: Lady Scarface on the Rise

    The series, starring Alice Braga and based on a thriller novel of the same title by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, makes Teresa Mendoza both a romantic and a realist.