Señorita 89 (Seasons 1–2)

Señorita 89 (2022) is a Mexican drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Set in the glossy Mexico of the late 1980s, it unfolds behind the gates of a lavish villa where the finalists of the Miss Mexico pageant are gathered to prepare.

The young women are promised they'll be made into beauty queens. In practice the mansion runs like a closed factory: lessons in posture and smiling are laced with control, humiliation and deals nobody says out loud. The nearer the final draws, the clearer it becomes — the real contest isn't for the crown, it's for walking out of there alive. The cast includes Ilse Salas, Ximena Romo, Bárbara López and Natasha Dupeyrón.

The show is steeped in a saturated eighties palette — pastels, hairspray, neon — and that pretty showcase hides a hard reckoning with who owns a woman's body. One for viewers who like dark period dramas built around fierce female leads. Stream the series Señorita 89 online on iFILM.