One hallmark of Spanish soap operas, or maybe soap operas in general, is that every single character is tangled up with all the others.
A character can't just have a long-lost mother; she has to be working for her long-lost mother and in love with her long-lost mother's stepson and friends with the woman who intentionally hit her long-lost mother with a car and got her lost and going to the scorned ex-lover of her long-lost mother for advice and finding inspiration through friendship with her long-lost mother's cheating ex-husband.
Create a few characters who would normally avoid each other in earnest, and freakishly entangle every aspect of their lives.
And if you need to, throw in a homicidal grandmother, because they make pretty fantastic characters when fully drawn.
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