2024-04-22 12:33:18
“It is one of those moments that we will never forget.” Mother and father expand in front of the cameras about raising their her adopted daughter born in China. They occupy the foreground of the interview, and from behind, almost out of focus, the girl in question appears. The same phrase, the same characters, but with a radically opposite meaning applies to the rest of The Asunta casethe six episode miniseries about a crime that shocked Spanish public opinion (premieres on Netflix on Friday the 26th). There is no possible spoiler here. The parents were declared guilty of drugging and suffocating to the 12-year-old girl in 2013. In that sense, theTrue Crime Bamboo (Altamar, Fariña, Nacho) It is set up, and feeds back, on media fascination and the tensions of a macabre tale.
The journalist Alfonso Basterra (Tristán Ulloa, of Berlin) and the lawyer Rosario Porto (Candela Peña, of Hierro) They are two respected professionals in Santiago de Compostela. The appearance of Perfect family It is depicted with a newspaper clipping hanging on the apartment wall. “First adoption of a Chinese girl in Galicia” can be read there. Everything falls apart when the body of the preteen in La Coruña appears on the side of a road.
In its first two chapters, this police prototype based on real events gives rise to police logic with a Galician tune. Especially Detective Cruces (María León) who serves as eyes of the audience and Judge Malvar (Javier Gutiérrez). It is one of those investigations with loose ends, clues left aside and complicit silences, which is why the investigator finds it difficult to believe that both were responsible for the filicide. The magistrate, for his part, is inflexible. Parents, finally, are a Pandora’s box disjointed and with too many dirty secrets.
“My mother taught me that things that are not said and told do not happen,” says the perpetrator at one point. “You feverish imagination “It’s going to cause us a lot of problems,” she confronts her husband. Beyond the title of the miniseries, the real interest lies in unravel the psychology of the culprits, especially that of the mother in the eye of the storm. The wounds are open. What’s more, the interpreter said that during filming she was insulted on several occasions. The winner of several Goyas clarified that the work “doesn’t clarify anything”, rather, it investigates the woman’s head from her point of view. “Not even the worst act of each of us says what we are. Dark things have happened to all of us, but what happened to this lady is special, here there are many melons to open because it seems that she has only been the mother and there is also her father, and the stigma It is not the same,” Peña specified in an interview.
Aside from the format and the rules of the genre, one of the most attractive points of the police drama is in its aesthetic tailoring where there is an abundance of cameras (closed circuit, television or police) on suspects. The inevitable reference is Stairsthe miniseries starring Colin Firth, which also explored an interior crime shocking to public opinion. Furthermore, before The Asunta caseRamón Campos, its executive producer, had made a documentary (What the truth hides) about the same murder. The producer has said that His interest goes beyond the crime itself. Logically, in these embodiments the lynching in the media and complicated presumption of innocence, but for the person responsible for both installments, the most suggestive thing is the classic and bloody narrative about the figure of adoptive parents as ideal villains.
Scheduled
* AMC will premiere this Monday the 22nd at 10 p.m. The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. The spinoff with the incentive of the reunion between Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) y Michonne (Call Gurira) in the middle of the walkers. The series will have repeats on Saturdays at midnight and can also be seen on Flow. The zombie franchise, for its part, secured the second season of Daryl Dixonthe anthology Tales of the Walking Deadfurther Dead City. The last one, with the unlikely duo of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as the protagonist, it would arrive in the middle of the year.
* Prime Video will premiere next May 24 Who killed him? The miniseries about the crime of a Mexican TV star in the ’90s. The cast includes Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel, the series) and Luis Gerardo Méndez (The sent). On the other hand, from the same platform they announced the beginning of production of the second season of Barrabrava starring Matías Mayer and Gastón Pauls.
* La multitasking Rashida Jones will return to the world of series with Sunny (July 10 via Apple TV+). Thriller, mystery and humor come together in this story about an American who lives in Japan and receives the company of a robot after the disappearance of her son and husband. The delivery carries that unpredictable and visually stunning touch of A24’s creations.
Character
Martha Scott of baby reindeer (Jessica Gunnin). The woman claims to be a celebrity lawyer, but most of her time is spent harassing a stand-up comedian who works in a pub. The pigeon of Misery He doesn’t break Donny’s foot (Richard Gadd) with a mace, but he sends her thousands of emails, messages on social networks, telephone, letters. She also gives him sleeping pills, a wool hat, underwear and even a toy reindeer. One detail: the series is based on the real experience from the creator, screenwriter and actor of the series.