Clans It has suddenly appeared in the Netflix catalog. Not only because it has been a success almost from the day it was released. But also because the script by Jorge Guerricacevarria, who is also the creator of the show, managed to capture the balance between violence and drama. The result is a series that, across seven episodes, surprises with its ability to confuse and take unusual paths in similar stories.
This is when the story of Ana (Clara Lago), a lawyer from Madrid, who discovers that her murdered father was leading a double life, is told. This will lead her to confront the Padin clan, a criminal gang that uses drug trafficking as a way to infect all levels of government. Therefore, the main character will have to fight not only the pain, confusion and grief of losing her father. Also with the need to go through a difficult path to avenge his death.
Ultimately, Ana will see for herself that the need for justice is not enough to face a serious ethical dilemma. Namely: the one she will have to deal with when she falls in love with Daniel (Tamar Novas), the son of an important drug dealer. What is he doing Clans a rare combination of drama, violence and psychological portrait of characters. But what’s even more amazing is that the adaptation of the real-life story that the show tells is in his charge. scenario.
The difficult history of the “Clans”
Although the show, written by Jorge Guerricachevarria, is not based on one event specifically, it recreates, more or less faithfully, two that took place in Galicia. The combination of both is, in fact, the scenario on which the fiction moves. Which allows the plot to both delve into real history and take some exceptions from fiction. As you may recall, the series follows Ana, mourning the death of her father, as she discovers that he was a protected witness in the trial of a dangerous drug dealer. What leads her, not only to try to figure out what really happened in the middle of such a scenario, but also to get revenge.
So the showrunner devoted a lot of research to create a believable narrative. Including interviews with drug traffickers, victims of clan crimes and other criminal groups in Cambados (Galicia), as well as during the writing process. As he commented in a newspaper interview Deya In Galicia, Guerriquechevarria cited as an argument what happened with the so-called Operation Necora. A strategic police movement that was a surprise raid carried out on June 12, 1990. An operation of such magnitude that it has since become a standard in the fight against drug trafficking.
Judge Baltasar Garzon and prosecutor Javier Zaragoza took part in the operation. And all this in the midst of a mobilization of 300 officials who arrived in Salnes (Santiago de Compostela) to stop smugglers who brought drugs into the country by sea. In the middle of the trial, there was a mass arrest of all participants in a long-term criminal structure involved in drug trafficking in the region. What the screenwriter took as the basis for the series’ gripping plot.
A remarkable woman in a complex story
As for Ana’s story, it is inspired by everything that happened around the lawyer Tanya Varela in the early years of the millennium in Spain. Everything happened until Varela served as director of the Mueller Information Center in Galicia.
According to various sources, the lawyer developed a stormy relationship with the son of a major drug dealer. This allowed Guerriquechevarria to create a dramatic story in the midst of a brutal script. One of the greatest strengths Clans like production.
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