It’s a sunny tale with Spanish flavor

At times, the streaming world seems full of sad souls and crumbling kingdoms. Eva Longoria decided to go another way.
“We’ve had a wave of dystopian shows and I’m always, ‘Ugh, I’m so depressed,” she told the Television Critics Associatdion.
So she stars in “Land of Women,” a six-parter (the poster is shown here) that starts Wednesday (June 26) on Apple TV+. “This show is so blue-skies, it’s so escapism,” she said, inspiring viewers to think: “I want to go to Spain and drink wine.”
Which is what she did. She went to Peralada, a winemaking village of 1,860 people, in Spain’s Catelonia region. There, the film crew dictated the pace.
“They’re like, ‘We’re only doing eight hours a day,’” Longoria said. “I was like, ‘What? We need to do 16 hours.’”
She soon settled into their style, including the mandatory 10 a.m. snack break.. “Spanish culture is just beautiful,” she said.
It’s far different from the everyday world of Longoria – busy as a producer, director and travel host, besides acting – or to Gala, the woman she plays.
Gala is living an upscale, city life when everything changes. Her husband disappears, thugs are looming, she’s on the run.
Soon, she’s heading with her mother and her college-age daughter to a Spanish village where they believe the family owns a house. She’s finding setbacks and, of course, arguing with a handsome Spanish guy.
He’s played by Santiago Cabrera, who is from Chile, part of a surging Latino film world. “There are Mexican series, Colombian series, Spanish series,” said Ramon Campos, the “Land of Women” co-creator and producer. They “travel between Latino markets; their budgets are bigger.”
Campos grew up in a village on the northwest edge of Spain. As a young screenwriter, he used to watch Longoria – a Texas native with Mexican roots – in “Desperate Housewives.”
Later, they linked on the “Grand Hotel” series. Now they’ve made a blue-sky romp in