I can't even finish the first episode. The writing is bad (K-pop reference made me cringe real bad), the acting is mediocre (the lead is bad overall, most under-30 characters are comically overacted, most over-30 characters are musty museum-pieces), and the scenario is utterly generic and without any surprise. It feels like watching children TV: cloyingly sentimental, and peppered with infodumps in the form of incongruous phone-calls. That's a shame because the Franco regime and its legacy are an interesting subject, and could have made for an interesting spy thriller. Every Spanish series look like telenovela, so perhaps I ought to quit complaining about German TV! Edit: actually I just remembered that I watched Piggy not long ago, which was both Spanish and rather good. It's just that I've never seen a good Spanish TV series. La Fortuna was alright, mostly driven by a great concept and an unusual restraint on the director's part, but the acting was overdone. Entrevias, on the other hand (which I dropped after a couple of episodes) was possibly the worst show I have seen in the past few years.

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