‘La Llorona’ Comes to Prime Time TV on “Grimm”
On October 26 NBC’s show “Grimm” will take on the Latin American tale of “La Llorona” for its Halloween episode. The episode is a joint project among NBC Universal, Telemundoand and mun2.
It will be aired Friday, 10/26 on NBC at 9 p.m. (ET), mun2 at 1 a.m. (ET) and Monday, 10/29 on Telemundo in Spanish at 11:35 p.m. (ET).
The episode guest stars Telemundo’s Kate del Castillo as Valentina Espinosa a mysterious detective from New Mexico working with “Grimm” detectives Nick Burkhardt and Hank Griffin to catch an other worldly predator believed to be “La Llorona” after a string of Portland children have been abducted.
For those of you who are not familiar with the age old tale, Latin American folklore tells a story of a distraught mother who drowned her children and then herself. The ghost of the mother emerges from water in order to haunt and terrorize the living as “La Llorona”(“The Weeping Woman”).
This article was first published in Hispanically Speaking News.
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