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Just Alice

Just Alice (Simplemente Alicia) is a 2025 Colombian romantic dramedy series in which Alicia, a political campaign manager, secretly maintains two marriages, one to a famous writer and one to a former priest, without either man knowing about the other. It was produced by RCN Televisión and released on Netflix with all 19 episodes on November 5, 2025.¹^•²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Original title	Simplemente Alicia; Spanish-language production from Colombia⁴
Format	1 season, 19 episodes of about 40 minutes each, rated TV-MA¹^•⁴
Release	All 19 episodes dropped on Netflix on November 5, 2025³
Creators	Marta Betoldi (Socias) and Esteban del Campo Bagu; directed by Rafael Martínez Moreno and Catalina Hernández¹^•⁵
Lead cast	Verónica Orozco as Alicia, Sebastián Carvajal as Pablo, Michel Brown as Alejo¹
Setting	Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia¹
Reception	IMDb 5.6/10 from 480 ratings; Metacritic season-1 critic scores of 70 (Collider) and 40 (Decider)⁶^•⁷

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Premise

Alicia Fernandez (Verónica Orozco) is torn between two men she each believes is the love of her life, and she chooses both: she marries Alejo (Michel Brown), a famous writer to whom she has been married for five years, and Pablo (Sebastián Carvajal), a former priest, leading a double life sustained by lies, including telling Pablo that she is a flight attendant who passes through Bogotá between trips.¹

The series opens on the morning of Alicia's wedding to Pablo, when her car is towed while she is picking up her wedding dress and her best friend Susana (Constanza Camelo) reaches her by motorcycle. While she races to the altar, she misses the launch of Alejo's new book, at which he toasts her in a live stream that moves her to tears; she tells Susana she does not want to leave either husband.¹ Later episodes raise the stakes as Alejo seeks Pablo as the subject of his next book, and Alicia's boss, Marcelo Beltrán (Julián Román), orders her to spy on Pablo when he protests Beltrán's campaign.⁸

Content and audience guidance

Common Sense Media, which rates the show suitable for ages 15 and up, describes it as a sexy Colombian comedy available with English dubbing and subtitles, centered on a love triangle. It flags frequent strong language, frequent drinking and intoxication, suggestive scenes without graphic sex, and little violence beyond peril from reckless driving; it also notes that the show depicts Colombian cultural specifics such as church ceremonies, wedding rituals, and class differences.¹¹

Production

The series was created by Marta Betoldi and Esteban del Campo Bagu and produced by RCN Televisión.¹^•² Rafael Martínez Moreno directed 19 episodes and Catalina Hernández directed one; the writing credits list Betoldi and Esteban Del Campo on all 19 episodes, with Daniel Ucros as executive producer and Andrés García as cinematographer.⁵ Netflix announced the series in July 2025 as part of a ten-title Colombian slate, in which Variety described the premise as Alicia choosing both men when fate demands she pick one.³ The soundtrack includes music by the Colombian singer Shakira, and the series is an original work not based on a book.¹

Cast

Verónica Orozco (known for Eva Lasting and Always a Witch) plays Alicia. Sebastián Carvajal (Enfermeras, Ana de Nadie) plays Pablo, and Michel Brown (The Marked Heart) plays Alejo. The supporting cast includes Constanza Camelo as Susana, Julián Román as Marcelo Beltrán, and Leo Deluglio as Benjamín, along with Ana María Medina, Daniela Tapia, Fernando Arévalo, and Biassini Segura.¹^•⁴

Release and availability

The series premiered on Netflix on November 5, 2025.³ It reached most European and Latin American Netflix catalogs on November 6 or November 25, 2025, and was added to Netflix in the United States on November 24, 2025.⁹ It streams with the original Spanish (Latin America) audio plus dubbed audio tracks and subtitles in several languages, including English.⁹ As of late 2026 it was available by Netflix subscription in the United States, with no free streaming option.⁴

Reception

Audience measures have been mixed. The series holds an IMDb rating of 5.6/10 from 480 user ratings, with an unweighted mean of 5.9 and the most ratings from Colombia, the United States, Romania, Canada, and Argentina; per-episode scores on IMDb rise from the 6.7 to 7.3 range in early episodes to about 8.0 by episodes 9 through 15.⁶ JustWatch records a 31% rating from 134 users, and The Movie Database lists 7.3.⁴^•¹⁰

Professional reviews split along similar lines. Collider's Kelcie Mattson scored the season 70, writing that the series has enough potential to lift its guilty-pleasure entertainment value into a more sophisticated piece on marriage and gender, provided its promising start carries through. Decider's Joel Keller scored it 40, calling Orozco a charming lead but the premise highly annoying, one that would need written somersaults to sustain a full season.⁷ A later roundup characterized the 19-episode season as overextended, with filler subplots and pacing issues, while crediting Orozco with giving the messy lead more weight and energy than the script alone provides.³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 2022 to 2026

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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