In the timeless city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendia family love, forget and cannot escape their past and their destiny.. This is Netflix’s most expensive Latin American production project to date with Colombian teams and natives. Communities build props and sets for the series.. 100 años de soledad is one of the great conventions of literature in Spanish. Its style is unmatched and its scope is beyond imagination. Its characters are so well portrayed that any screenwriter would have no problem writing them for the screen. But the seemingly insurmountable problem of adapting the novel was its timing. Compressing a hundred years of family history and national history was an impossible task. Nearly 60 years after its publication, the novel has found a cinematic home on Netflix. Only the stream can do it justice, and the first 2 episodes are really promising. Great photography, art direction and respect for the characters. García Márquez’s wonderful prose needs a voice to let itself emerge from time to time. The plot unfolds smoothly with richness and depth. I loved it, and I was a bit skeptical that the magical world of GGM could be translated to the screen. Wall, so far it’s a success in my book.. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" One of the biggest TV and streaming premieres of the month. Check out our December calendar for more!