News

This article contains discussion of self harm.

In Netflix's adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Rebeca Buendía (Akima Moldonado) frequently ate dirt, and there wasn't a very clear explanation why. One Hundred Years of Solitude is, as the name suggests, a tragedy that follows several generations of the Buendía family and their time in the Colombian town of Macondo. It also features a literary style known as magical realism, so there are plenty of moments in One Hundred Years of Solitude that are both hard to explain and extremely sad to watch. One such moment is Rebeca's penchant for eating dirt.

Rebeca is one of the most confusing characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude. As a distant cousin of Úrsula Iguarán, she doesn't fit neatly into the Buendía family tree, and it's not entirely clear where she came from. She also arrived in Macondo carrying a...

You won’t have to wait 100 more years for Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — the two-part series premieres on December 11. Each part is eight episodes.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (the book) was published in 1967; Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude (the series) was entirely filmed in Colombia with the support of the Márquez family. Like the book, it follows cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán who are married against their parents’ wishes.

“Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo,” the Netflix synopsis reads. “Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town,...