After this highly recommended series, which Iron (2019-2021), writers Pepe Coira and Fran Araujo They return to Movistar Plus with another small town crime mystery. Broadchurch (2013-2017), with rape (since 2022). But they go to the other end of the country, from the Canary Islands to Galicia. And they repeat the formula of placing two different characters before the investigation, the teacher of literature and the civil guard, Thomas and Maite, embodied Javier Camara and Monica Lopez.
Its concept is not similar to Agatha Christie, in which the identity of the killer is always a surprise, but it is somewhat closer to the dynamics of Patricia Highsmith or Colombo (1971-2003), on the other hand, it is important to find out the causes of suicidal behavior. Offering, among other things, a social fresco in which opposing motifs lead to greater dramatic complexity. D manages to catch us Enough to make us want answers.
Closing each episode with an exposure or twist and thus a hook ensures we don’t want to get off the train. rape in the end. In the same way, from the first bars, audiovisual mime it’s hard to argue with what they’re spending, with thought-provoking close-ups and details, Javi Font’s atmospheric soundtrack, and exquisite eight-hand editing that incorporates almost hypnotic slow-motion compositions at critical moments.
Less charisma, same good audiovisual mannerisms
He is exemplary in storytelling manner; It captures our attention without manipulating us. But the set doesn’t reach the brilliance Iron. Partly for in minor eloquence his dialogues and, moreover, because charisma two main characters, Tomas Javier Camara and Maite Monica Lopez, I know sample below to the works of Antonio Diaz, Dario Grandinetti and Candela Montes Idema Peña in thriller Canary. One might say, from the writings of Pepe Coyra and Fran Araujo.
His presence is appreciated beyond any doubt, despite the claim to be the first since the series. Seven lives (1999-2006). as if imposing Bertha Ohea, was born in A Coruña. And some twist, filled with a bizarre but perfectly plausible coincidence, reminds us of the impressive finale. oathsecond adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s novel of the same name by actor Sean Penn (2001), based on the film baitLadislav Vajda (1958).
Directors Jorge Coira and Elena Trape filmed three episodes each. He is also responsible for films such as eighteen meals (2010) and Emperor’s Code (2022) and her, from Blog (2010) and Distances (2018); one made the other chapters I know who you are (2017), for example, and another, from STRIKE (since 2020). And both make up several parallel montages with dramatic intensity and high end so we can continue with javier camara and monica lopez.
“Rapa” does not surprise us, but commands respect
However, the median rape, it seems to us that his main problem is that, based on certain clues, one gets the feeling that they already smell the reasons for the murder and the characters involved in it. And, although the second is so, then he realizes that he was too smart. But perhaps that’s not what hurts. Instead of just wondering spectator, he beats him in pridecompletely different from what we are used to in the story.
What strains the hinges of plausibility a little is certain difficulties in communication between the main characters, in the manner of the episode “Colony” (2×16) Secret materials (since 1993) and with the same goal: to create danger and anxiety. But in Pepe Coira and Fran Araujo’s very decent set of fiction, it doesn’t make much of an impact; and the cat-and-mouse game that it becomes at the end nevertheless satisfies us and reminds us that make such an effort without blinding, enough to earn our respect.
Source: Hiper Textual
