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The Dallas International Film Festival announced its full lineup yesterday, revealing that the filmed-in-Dallas television show Queen of the South would debut its first episode as part of the festival’s centerpiece presentation. This sent me digging for any other information on the program, of which I only vaguely recalled a few things: That it would air on the USA Network (correct); that it led to some traffic congestion while filming last year (correct); and that it would star Josh Holloway, best known as Sawyer of television’s Lost (incorrect, and I’m not sure where that came from.)
Anyway, USA released a teaser for the show earlier this year, and it slipped under my radar at the time. It’s brief, and doesn’t offer many details, or shots of places that look identifiably Dallas. It does, however, set an appropriate tone for a show that is a remake of a hit telenovela (La Reina Del Sur, itself an adaptation of a bestselling novel) about a woman’s bloody rise in the cutthroat industry of international drug trafficking. In other words, it appears to be a big, corny, violent mess with plenty of over-the-top emoting. I think it looks fun.
Whether it deserves to be included as a centerpiece screening at the city’s biggest film festival is a whole different matter.
Queen of the South will air this summer. The Dallas International Film Festival runs from April 14 through the 24th.
