![]() ![]() No peasants wondering around selling their garlic on street corners. The show is set in the Spain of the early 1960s but looks nothing like it. Only two episodes in commercial fare not of the top rank and stylistically it’s nothing to scream about, but the story is holding me, clichés and all. I also enjoy the animated credit sequence (though not the song). Maria de Madeiros with her wide dark eyes and soft tentative voice, appears as the secret head of the operation, always at the Prado museum, framed against beautiful paintings that are a backdrop, a point of conversation between the characters, and an added signifier to the narrative. ![]() Action sequences are interpolated with brilliant young singers versioning the coplas of the period. The twist is not only that they’re Spanish but that they’re hunting down Nazis within a fascist regime. I’m enjoying J aguar, a Netflix series about Spanish survivors of German concentration camps who group together as Nazi hunters in early 60s Spain.
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