50 years after Angie Dickinson played a sexy police officer as the lead of The TV hit “Police Woman” (1974-1978) and the appearance of the original “Charlie’s Angels” (1976-1981,) Apple TV Plus and Lemon Studios (“Matando Cabos”; “Saving Private Perez,”) unfolds the real life story of the first female police force of Mexico City in 1971. “Las Azules,” Defy their own families and the conservative establishment of Its time while the authorities give them this opportunity as a distraction for the media of a serial killer of women.

Written and directed by Fernando Rovzar (“Monarca”; “Hotel Cocaine”), the four main actresses Barbara Mori (star of telenovela classic “Rubí”, from 2004); Natalia Téllez (recently wasted as The female lead of VIX series “Profe Infiltrado”); actress and singer Ximena Sariñana (“Amar te duele”; “Niñas mal”) and newcomer Amorita Rasgado, told during press junkets they were able to meet and question the real police women about their experience as the first police of its kind. Seen in the first two episodes, released on July 31 in the aforementioned streaming service, they were not only bullied and disrespected by their own male colleagues but also thrown to their own battles without munition of even any weapons to confront an unlawful abiding citizens, armed with only a whistle and some coins to call from a phone booth for help to the police headquarters.

“Las Azules” also gives the viewer as a much better comedy series from the aforementioned streaming service VIX and its show “Consuelo.” “Azules” gives a good look at the personal and professional boundaries for women at the time, with a great recreation of the era on production design and a soundtrack by late music producer Lynn Fainchtein (“Amores perros”; “Roma”) to whom the series are dedicated to. There is an equally talented male supporting cast including Miguel Rodarte (“El Tigre de Santa Julia”; “Saving Private Perez”; Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia(“Wild Tales”; “Pain and Glory”); Horacio García Rojas (“Cry Macho”; “Diablero”); Mario Zaragoza (“Man on Fire”; “Getbthe Gringo”) and an unrecognizable Mexican-Colombian actor Christian Tappan (“La Reina del Sur”; “Griselda”) playing advertising consultant for the President Echeverría at the time and the man behind “the sale” of “Las Azules” to the powers that being.

We have to applaud the winning bet Apple TV Plus first with the Eugenio Derbez‘ produced and starred “Acapulco” (2021-2024) and more recently Eva Longoria‘s “Land of Women” making “Las Azules” a series equivalent on its genre of the also recent release of the streaming service “Lady in the Lake”, the first series starring and produced by Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman and coming soon the latest project of Mexican Academy Award Winner Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”), the thriller “Disclaimer”, a thriller about a female TV journalist (Cate Blanchett) and also his first collaboration with Emmanuel Lubezki since “Gravity” (2013). Way to go!!!