Reviews

We are presented here with a story that makes absolutely no sense as somebody pointed elsewhere the amount of paper they would have to shift out of that Mint would be so heavy that it would take weeks to shift out of there. Also the bank notes issued could be easily pulled out of service before they even ever got used.

• So the premise is profoundly ridiculous some of the relationships some of the characters are also profoundly ridiculous.

And yet this series works really well. The problem with the reviews here on IMDb is that you have to write in English here. Which means that the vast majority of people who will actually review are either English speakers or people who have a good command of the language. Which means that most Spaniards will not review here they will simply vote. This explains the 8.5 overall rating and the appallingly dismissive reviews you can see here.

This is made in Spain by Latin people the level of emotion expressed the arguments the yelling are all perfectly okay in Latin culture as would be in Spain Latin America Italy etc etc So this is why the rating is so high and the reviews are so low in appreciation

• Special mention must be made of "la Inspectora" she has to be the dumbest cop in film history.

First she is married to a male cop who beats her up but because she's so tough and such a feminist she sent him packing very good so far; but then she takes up with the mastermind of the greatest heist in Spanish history in a heartbeat and has no intuitive ability zero intuitive ability to smell a rat. C'mon 🙂🙃😉 in which parallel universe could she ever be a cop???? In Netflix universe she could ....

This is profoundly hilarious.

Two of the female characters in the series are meant to be tough new types of women the inspector turns out to be somebody who weeps to her mother about how tough the job is the other one the character called Nairobi (great actress) does a sort of coup and then shouts about this is the takeover of the Matriarchy starting here and then surrenders her power to the main male bully within a couple of episodes.

Not too sure what the gender politics of the writers were here but the strong females turn out to be marshmallow women who ultimately look up to the bearded Masters in both cases the third strong female character Tokio has a psycho streak ends up creating so much mayhem that people die so yes that aspect of the series is really very odd indeed very very odd tough talk followed by extreme pliancy and submissiveness. The 3 female characters are in effect depicted as irrational and inefficient nutters yikes ..

Having said all that and it needs to be said the series is extremely gripping in seasons one and two which should've been one season 14 episode followed by 8 at the end of the 14 I was expecting some kind of resolution there was none this was very disappointing you really have to see 1+2 to make any sense of it.

And this is the crux of the review here this is where it should've stopped. Because it was a successful 1+2 season Netflix and the makers here felt it should carry on a bit like the movies in the US where they have infinite sequels.

Total mistake there is nothing that could've been added to 1+2 they stand on their own. Flogging a dead horse is what it is called flogging a dead horse so watch season one and two and then do something else with your time.

Some great acting some very handsome young men and women the women always ready to reveal more flesh than seems required by the storyline but you see this is truly not a feminist series here.

Highly recommend it if you want something mindless entertaining 100% implausible and in a way as dumb as some American series can get

NB Watched it in SPA audio with SPA subs; otherwise would be at sea 🙂 due to speed of delivery.

EDIT now seen all the way to 5 and seasons 3 4 and 5 need to be seen as one unit since no resolution till the end of 5 as they did with 1+2 it all comes out on the wash but 3 4 and 5 meander way too much for way too long

• flogging a dead nag until the cows come home blue in the face would be my chosen mixed animal metaphor.

This series here redesigns the concept of the word tearjerker my God you have to have a heart made of granite to not cry in the last two episodes.

The first two episodes are really really good after that a little bit more average a tad pedestrian at times but what is always present Is the incredible chemistry of those two I see some people do not see that also they have an issue around the fact that an upper-middle-class Blue eyed boy would never pay attention to this Indian girl frankly I think she is both really beautiful and at the same time not but this is never important in this story he's not attracted to her looks so much as he is attracted to her personality and soul looks only last for 10 minutes personality and soul last forever.

• This story here is the opposite of shallow it is quite funny that for the first few years his life externally is always shallow but inside he never feels separation from his soulmate As indeed that is only the term we have to use these two are soulmates in the story the acting from both of them is stellar I will give that a 10 out of 10 strike that 12 out of 10 very very good acting she probably even better than him the range of expressions on emotions she manages to convey quite a palette

The soundtrack for people who pay attention to music is really quite great brilliant if a little bit obvious the tracks will be played from the year in which the scene takes place of course this is called one day because it always happens on the 15th of July between 1988 and 2007 I think I may be wrong on the duration

This is high quality on all levels one of the best things I have seen in recent times and I watch a lot of films and series also usually stay away from British ones due to the fact that you always have the class social class in almost every film or series made in Britain and yes it is present here extremely so he from the gilded Upper middle-class white Oxfordshire type public school (private for US) education and she from immigrant Indian in the film she affects a Leeds northern accent which she pulls off extremely well I realised reading about her biography that she's not from the north and does the accent extremely well in so far as I can tell

It is a tearjerker ultimately a bit of joy episode one and then afterwards maudlin and more and more maudlin And then drama a lot of grief in that story and not just at the end there is also the mother story

Not sure this will be an easy one to forget.

It posits itself as a "clever" read of dumb racial stereotypes enshrined in the fabric of today's America; and in the final analysis it is a mere collection of stereotypical snapshots of both human groups; Black and white alike

So kudos .... when you manage to outdo your own target you have achieved quite something

It is a dumb lo-brow comedy drama in the end; says nothing of any depth and says it in a way EVERYBODY can understand .... at no point is this an intellectual movie; it is profoundly high-street and seriously could these characters be more cardboard cutouts if they tried? Absolutely not... the gay brother who married a white woman as a beard and then was taken to the cleaners by her dear'o'dear the maid out of a 19th century plantation novel etc etc

BUT and this is a big but the film still works .... it is bittersweet and yes endearing .... at no point can we care for any of the characters feel connection with their plight/struggles all of it is too skin-deep but we get carried along to the end (what a letdown cannot decide how to do that) and feel mildly amused entertained but certainly none the wiser as regards US society's racial equilibrium or lack of thereof and learn nothing about the world of literature

I do not believe this film will remain in my mind for even a few weeks ....

... Well almost she goes with The Machine in the end but is mildly reluctant/conflicted .... the film sez a lot about France after 40 years of NEO liberalism and precariousness of living for the bottom quarter of society; it is the same the world over since Maggie and Ronnie started to arguably destroy the world

OK the film is good nicely paced believable in its main lines but there are issues. There is a Woke tendency these days to want to try and eradicate race gender nationality in the great drive by the NWO the instigators of Woke. So here in the film we have another perfect example of this. Louise Bourgoin here is supposed to be the biological mother of Samy Belkessa now i am not a geneticist but this seems far-fetched; beyond what suspension of disbelief requires and we see more and more of this in French or US movies. In Deep Water (2022) we had Cuban actress Ana de Armas in a marriage to Ben Affleck both parents of their "biological" fully Chinese daughter. The mind did boggle

• Frankly there is no need for this unless one is trying to push an agenda and it makes for very poor verisimilitude/believability

Enough of that. To the film: it shows quasi fascistic actually fully fascistic practices by big real estate money concerns turning some of the population into a slave class a sort of Hunger Games society which is also The Agenda and it does this really well

The fact that in the denouement the main character Louise Bourgoin decides to throw in her lot with the oppressor and not the oppressed mars it all more than a little but it shows therefore the dog eat dog quality of the society; here France; but anywhere would do equally ....

Not a masterpiece for me a tad caricatural in parts but a good 7 totally worth a spin if you care about social matters social engineering the enslavement of the bottom quarter of society.

PS then i find out the Romanian caretaker was played by an Iranian actor Sâm Mirhosseini why not? Such a dearth of Romanians ? They looked around none to be seen c'mon surely Bucharest? Not Tehran scouts ... next time .... it will make it easier. 🙃😉

It is not really bad .... it is just badly put together and the storyline is a lame duck .... we never really find out what happened on the beach .... he asks if she agrees and she says yes

last we see .... then there is the asleep bit .... really not cool but it does not go anywhere as friends come in ...

So what is it? A sort of teenage me-too to keep up with the current Zeitgeist and yes it is MUCH needed but so ham-fisted in Society at large as it is here

The main actress who is truly very good even magnetic spends 2/3 of the piece here sulking ... she does it it well but what is the point of this? Wasted talent.

So awaiting GCSE's results in Crete and one of the 3 friends is inexperienced and wants to remedy that .... so she follows an idiot to the beach .... and then we are served a sort of he was a bit of a cad kind of story ... Quelle surprise!

It is done clumsily. Of course these are important matters. But this here is a mostly tedious unimportant treatment in film form

I still give a 6 due to good to excellent acting from most and on behalf of all Northern Europeans we got to add sorry to Cretans for these hordes of sozzled youth puking all over their paradise island ....

Not recommended.

PS why use a 25 and a 26-year old to portray 16-year olds is there is shortage of younger actresses? As we mentioned clumsy and adds a feeling of unbelievability.