Season 1

La Madrastra (2005), Season 1 — 120-episode Mexican telenovela, watch online on iFILM. A Televisa production starring Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, aired on Canal de las Estrellas Monday to Friday at 9 pm.

María is on a trip with friends when a shot rings out and she's found holding the gun over a dead body. It isn't hers. The court doesn't care. Life sentence. Her husband Esteban — a prominent businessman — doesn't stand by her. He divorces her, pays off the witnesses, and tells their children their mother died in an accident. Twenty years pass. Twenty years of a family that doesn't know she exists. When María is released early and returns to Mexico, she isn't looking to disappear quietly: she wants to know who really pulled the trigger, and she wants her children back.

The show drew over 30 rating points — an unexpected hit even by Televisa's standards, and the fourth remake of a 1981 Chilean story that clearly still holds up. Stream La Madrastra Season 1 online on iFILM.