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What a great show! The episodes are short and action-packed, with at least one or two out-of-the-blue twists every episode to keep you riveted to the screen. If someone told me they always knew what was coming, I would be very skeptical, because I found the plot-line to be very intricate and unpredictable.

I watched the original Spanish version with English subtitles, which is my preferred way to view all non-English series. The dialogue does move along pretty fast, especially in the last few episodes, but I don't feel like I missed any of the on-screen action.

If you like shows about morality, vigilantism, justice and corruption, I'd highly recommend this series. It's super enjoyable from start to finish.

Absolutely the best series I have watched on Apple+ whilst waiting on Season 5 of the magnificent SLOW HORSES . Spanish language with English Subs but I think you have other options available . Personally I cannot stand the dubbing on these non English offerings , many of which are much more inventive , original and interesting than the tedium of the derivative rehashing of the same tired storyline in our British and USA shows . I am deliberately avoiding giving away too much of this crime show as I would prefer you watch it yourselves and enjoy it as much as I did . The one clue I WILL give , is that I hope that I never get arrested in Spain . PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let there be a second season as great as the first and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch the original before the UK or USA plagarise it with an inferior English spoken version like The Bridge and so many other foreign gems .

A robbery takes place on an airport coach and goes wrong. Or did it? That's the dilemma soon-to be-ex husband and wife detectives Fran Garza and Rebecca Quirós have to solve. Fortunately, this is a puzzle that the viewer has to decipher without the extra baggage of irrelevant background stories of the protagonists. We just get some back story as facts and aren't swamped in it. The meat is in the solving of the crime.

Slowly, in twenty-five minute episodes, the two cops get to the bottom of things. On the way there, three different explanations for the botched crime emerge.

This is in no way a profound series, but it does discuss on a superficial level the ethics of vigilantism. And it shines a spotlight on Spain's "popular jury" system in a critical way.

I watched this over two evenings and would love to see a similarly fast-paced Season Two emerge. Perhaps next year.

Over and over again, Spanish producers are making thriller shows like this one, and over and over again are failing in exactly the same. The only explanation I have is that showrunners have an unrealistic perception of their own talent and capabilities.

In this case, the premise is good. It is a noir or police/crime thriller, with a commercial vocation. They do not try to discover the wheel, just to create an interesting story, and unexpected twists where no one is what they seem to be.

The problems: The script is really bad. The dialogues are sometimes ridiculous and the behavior of characters are always moving between unrealistic to stupid. The lack on internal logic, the inconsistencies, and the lack of a minimal realism in the characters' behavior make difficult to suspend disbelief. Moreover, are trying to add so many twists and subplots that add nothing interesting, to the point that the thing turns to boring and ridiculous after the first two episodes, the best of the show.

As usual in Spanish shows, the depiction of police work and interactions is sometimes poor or even ridiculous and offensive. Clearly, a story or characters cannot be more intelligent than the writers. And the writers seems to be very limited and lazy. They even didn't document or checked the most essential police procedures. The main female character doing the part of a police inspector is just not well suited for that role, being ridiculous sometimes. So, we can add the bad casting decisions to the fails that plagued this show.

The actor's work is lamentable. Actors are really bad. They cannot even talk clearly, to the point that you want to switch on the subtitles, because is very difficult to understand in their poor diction. Two main characters, both well known actresses in Spain, are constantly overacting. I think that spanish productions should care that. When you rewatch old movies and shows, the actors talk perfectly well and intelligibly. What happened?

It is always the same. They have good ideas, the production and resources are good. But they ruin it failing always in the same points: not so good acting, poor scripts, unbelievable and illogical behavior of characters.

This is the great example of a show were you have to stick with it to get the best from it.

To begin with the set up is clear but some of the dialogue and situations are quite formulaic until about half way through. By then a series of twists are introduced and the pace picks up considerably. Given that the whole premise is that several people are lying it does not take any leap to get to the end and say 'well I knew they were lying from the start' That is the whole point of the series. I would wager though that anybody who saw the end coming in the way that it does is almost certainly kidding themselves.

With only eight short episodes it is well worth a watch.