Money Heist (Netflix Version)

Money Heist already had a reputation for being an extraordinary event in the heist genre, and the first season more or less confirmed that. It is funny, original, holds together, and is cast with interesting, unfamiliar actors. The series returns to a trend that dominated in the 70s and 80s, namely a charming gang of criminals who outsmart the state authorities and turn the police into a group of fools. The logical gaps are not big enough to bother me in any way, and we will see where the second season will lead the characters. I was afraid that my impression would be ruined by a series of "shocking" twists and conspiracies like Prison Break, but so far it is not nearly as annoying as that American series. Overall impression: 90%. (29/10/2020)

The second season somewhat cooled down my enthusiasm from the first season. As the finale of the heist approached, the screenwriter had to, whether he wanted to or not, start explaining and also tighten all the attractions, so where in the first season it was about playing with the viewer's expectations, here we are already witnesses to twists, acrobatic performances, and behavior that has very little to do with rationality. Some actions can only be accepted with a giant dose of perspective - see the crazy motorcycle escapade in Tokyo. It is simply over the top, and I also started to mind the ideology influenced by radical left-wing movements Podemos and Syriza. If in the first season, the criminals played a game with the journalists to fight against the system, it could be accepted as a fake game, but in the second season, even the mastermind of the operation believes in it and manages to convince those around him. What the creators of the series did with the character of the commissioner is a slap in the face. There is still a group of attractive and brilliantly played characters, for whom it is worth staying with the gangsters until the end of the heist, and here too you can find many delightful scenes and some psychologically interesting moments, but it won't pull it up to more than three stars and an overall impression of 60%. What the creators served me in the second season warns me against attempting to continue watching further seasons... (01/11/2020)