About Women in Blue
Women in Blue (Las Azules) is a 2024 Mexican period drama created for Apple TV+ and set in Mexico City in 1971. When the government launches a female police corps largely as a public-relations gesture, a group of women sign up for reasons of their own and become some of the first uniformed policewomen in the country. Among them is Maria de la Torre, an upper-class housewife who joins after her marriage falters and who quickly discovers she has a sharp instinct for investigation. The series frames the corps as a turning point for these trailblazing women even as the institution around them treats their badges as little more than a photo opportunity.
As the women train and take to the streets, they realize the department is downplaying a string of crimes targeting young women across the city. Sidelined from the real casework by their male colleagues, Maria and her fellow recruits begin quietly piecing the cases together themselves, following leads the official investigation has ignored. The show keeps the violence largely off-screen, focusing instead on the methodical work of the investigation, the pressure the women face, and the personal stakes that pull them deeper into a case nobody in power wants them to solve.
Across its ten episodes the series braids period detail with a procedural spine, using the early-1970s setting to explore the sexism the recruits navigate at home and on the job. Barbara Mori anchors the ensemble as Maria, with Ximena Sarinana and Natalia Tellez among the women who form the heart of the unit. Praised for its production design and its focus on women claiming professional ground long denied to them, Women in Blue presents itself as a story about courage, sisterhood, and persistence as much as a crime drama.
