# Mujeres de negro

Mujeres de negro [international title Dressed for mourning] is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno for Televisa. It premiered on August 22, 2016. A total of 50 episodes have been confirmed so far.
The main protagonists are portrayed by Alejandra Barros, Mayrín Villanueva and Ximena Herrera. Leticia Calderón and Arturo Peniche portray the main antagonists, with Diego Olivera and Alexis Ayala.

## Plot

In the rich coastal town of Encino Blanco, three married couples spend the weekend at Coral Beach while their husbands go on their already traditional fishing trip on a yacht. Not far from the pier, the yacht suddenly explodes. Only chips remain on the surface. In seconds they lost their husbands, and they have to go on with their lives without them ... just as they planned.
Vanessa, Jackie and Katia have had very comfortable lives and their marriages before the others are almost perfect, but in reality the women are extremely unhappy because of their husbands.
Julio, Vanessa's husband, has gotten into shady deals that endanger the lives of Vanessa and Diego, his nine-year-old son. Jackie's husband, Lorenzo, is controlling, and humiliates and beats her without allowing her to have a life of her own. Nicolás, Katia's husband, has been in depression for years, with several suicide attempts, breaking his wife's dreams of having a family.
After the "accident", the widows, who were thought to have a normal, quiet lives find their lives transformed into a whirlwind of emotions and imbalance, as the police discover a bomb caused the yacht explosion. Now the police must find the culprit. The three women get into a world in which their lives are always in danger and where the economic interests of laboratories harass them.

## Cast
### Main

* Mayrín Villanueva as Vanessa Leal
* Alejandra Barros as Jackie Acosta
* Ximena Herrera as Katia Millán
* Arturo Peniche as Bruno Borgetti
* Diego Olivera as Patricio Bernal
* Alexis Ayala as Julio Zamora
* Leticia Calderón as Irene Palazuelos

### Secondary

* Bruno Bichir as Zacarías Zaldívar
* Marcelo Córdoba as Eddy Quijano
* Mark Tacher as Nicolás Lombardo
* Francisco Gattorno as Lorenzo Rivera
* Lourdes Reyes as Rita Kuri
* Emmanuel Palomares as José Rivera
* Manuel Ojeda as Enríquez
* Julieta Egurrola as Isabella de Zamora
* Lilia Aragón as Catalina de Lombardo
* Diego Escalona as Diego Zamora
* Pedro Sicard as Arturo
* Marco de Paula as Sandro
* Yolanda Ventura as Giovanna
* Isabella Camil as Miriam del Villar
* Jean Paul Leroux as Lascurain
* Lupita Lara as Tania
* Juan Ángel Esparza as Víctor Martínez
* Iván Caraza as Esteban
* Paola Real as Danna Quijano

### Recurring

* Adanely Núñez as Rebeca
* Arlette Pacheco as Elisa
* Ricardo Franco as Rico
* Jonathan Kuri as Alberto Ramos
* Sandra Kai as Ximena
* Jony Hernández as Ramírez
* Juan Alejandro Ávila as Duarte
* Michel Gregorio

## Series overview

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First released | Last released |
| 1 | 27 | 27 | August 22, 2016 (2016-08-22) | September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27) |
| 2 | 24 | 24 | September 28, 2016 (2016-09-28) | October 30, 2016 (2016-10-30) |

## Episodes
### Season 1

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "¿Homicidio?" | August 22, 2016 (2016-08-22) |
| 2 | 2 | "Julio sobrevive" | August 23, 2016 (2016-08-23) |
| 3 | 3 | "Katia toca fondo" | August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24) |
| 4 | 4 | "Zacarías es un gran peligro" | August 25, 2016 (2016-08-25) |
| 5 | 5 | "Quiero mi dinero" | August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) |
| 6 | 6 | "Arrebatos" | August 29, 2016 (2016-08-29) |
| 7 | 7 | "La oferta" | August 30, 2016 (2016-08-30) |
| 8 | 8 | "Obsesiones" | August 31, 2016 (2016-08-31) |
| 9 | 9 | "Todo tiene un precio" | September 1, 2016 (2016-09-01) |
| 10 | 10 | "¡Julio aparece frente a Vanessa!" | September 2, 2016 (2016-09-02) |
| 11 | 11 | "¡ZZ no se vende!" | September 5, 2016 (2016-09-05) |
| 12 | 12 | "Silencio eterno" | September 6, 2016 (2016-09-06) |
| 13 | 13 | "En contra de Palazuelos" | September 7, 2016 (2016-09-07) |
| 14 | 14 | "Jackie toma el control" | September 8, 2016 (2016-09-08) |
| 15 | 15 | "Palazuelos se doblega ante Jackie" | September 9, 2016 (2016-09-09) |
| 16 | 16 | "Jackie entre la vida y la muerte" | September 12, 2016 (2016-09-12) |
| 17 | 17 | "Julio reaparece y amenaza a Irene" | September 13, 2016 (2016-09-13) |
| 18 | 18 | "¡Vanessa y Julio regresan para empezar de nuevo!" | September 14, 2016 (2016-09-14) |
| 19 | 19 | "Katia cegada por los celos" | September 15, 2016 (2016-09-15) |
| 20 | 20 | "Julio descubre la verdad" | September 16, 2016 (2016-09-16) |
| 21 | 21 | "Borgetti secuestra a Julio" | September 19, 2016 (2016-09-19) |
| 22 | 22 | "Julio se despide" | September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20) |
| 23 | 23 | "Jackie y Patricio se entregan al amor" | September 21, 2016 (2016-09-21) |
| 24 | 24 | "Miriam descubre la infidelidad de Bruno" | September 22, 2016 (2016-09-22) |
| 25 | 25 | "Katia cae en la trampa" | September 23, 2016 (2016-09-23) |
| 26 | 26 | "Bruno en contra de Patricio" | September 26, 2016 (2016-09-26) |
| 27 | 27 | "Irene juega sucio para quedarse con todo" | September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27) |

### Season 2

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date |
| 28 | 1 | "Miriam decide destruir a Borgetti" | September 28, 2016 (2016-09-28) |
| 29 | 2 | "¡Julio logra escapar!" | September 29, 2016 (2016-09-29) |
| 30 | 3 | "Julio quiere quedarse con Diego" | September 30, 2016 (2016-09-30) |
| 31 | 4 | "Irene y Borgetti tienen nuevos planes" | October 3, 2016 (2016-10-03) |
| 32 | 5 | "Vanessa se entera de la traición de Katia" | October 4, 2016 (2016-10-04) |
| 33 | 6 | "Irene sufre por la muerte de Víctor" | October 5, 2016 (2016-10-05) |
| 34 | 7 | "Diego y Julio sufren un terrible accidente" | October 6, 2016 (2016-10-06) |
| 35 | 8 | "Borgetti secuestra a Diego" | October 7, 2016 (2016-10-07) |
| 36 | 9 | "Borgetti encuentra el punto débil de Bernal" | October 10, 2016 (2016-10-10) |
| 37 | 10 | "Irene es engañada por Borgetti" | October 11, 2016 (2016-10-11) |
| 38 | 11 | "Sale a la luz que Borgetti y Rita tienen un hijo" | October 12, 2016 (2016-10-12) |
| 39 | 12 | "Katia dispara contra Marcial" | October 13, 2016 (2016-10-13) |
| 40 | 13 | "Vanessa quiere a Julio lejos de su vida" | October 14, 2016 (2016-10-14) |
| 41 | 14 | "¡Julio Zamora está muerto!" | October 17, 2016 (2016-10-17) |
| 42 | 15 | "Borgetti el nuevo dueño de Farmateca" | October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18) |
| 43 | 16 | "Irene trata de escapar de la policía" | October 19, 2016 (2016-10-19) |
| 44 | 17 | "Miriam es inculpada por los delitos de Farmateca" | October 20, 2016 (2016-10-20) |
| 45 | 18 | "Vanessa, Arturo y Edy un triángulo amoroso" | October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21) |
| 46 | 19 | "Patricio se entera de la verdad" | October 24, 2016 (2016-10-24) |
| 47 | 20 | "Irene y Miriam van a la cárcel" | October 25, 2016 (2016-10-25) |
| 48 | 21 | "Rita encuentra pistas para hundir a Borgetti" | October 26, 2016 (2016-10-26) |
| 49 | 22 | "Borgetti quita a Irene de su camino" | October 27, 2016 (2016-10-27) |
| 50 | 23 | "Patricio detiene a Jackie, Vanessa y Katia" | October 28, 2016 (2016-10-28) |
| 51 | 24 | "Capítulo final" | October 30, 2016 (2016-10-30) |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated | Result |
| 2017 | 35th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Series | Carlos Moreno | Won |
| 2017 | 35th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actress in Series | Mayrin Villanueva | Nominated |
| 2017 | 35th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actor in Series | Diego Olivera | Won |