There is magic and realism in spades in this iteration of Macondo

There naturally are differences between the series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’and the text. After beginning with the end of the novel in silence, the famous opening lines of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ring out, “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” We go to the beginning, to the marriage of cousins, José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán. One Hundred Years of Solitude Directors: Alex García López, Laura Mora Cast: Claudio Cataño, Diego Vásquez, Marleyda Soto, Viña Machado, Loren Sofía Episodes: 8 Runtime: 59 – 68 minutes Storyline: A story spanning generations of a family and a nation that is equally blessed and cursed Buendía and Úrsula with their friends leave their village to find a place where they can live as they want. One Hundred Years of Solitude does not shy away from the unpalatable parts of the novel including incest, self-harm, and the fact that the only native characters are Visitacíon and her brother Cataure, from the Wayuu People, who work as house servants at the Buendía home.