In 2045, Spain like the rest of the western world has been driven into a dictatorial regime by the lack of natural resources. Life in the countryside is impossible, and in the city a fence divides peoples into the powerful, and the rest.
Set in a not too distant future, in a world fairly possible. Mixing a bit of dictatorship (the police uniform are straight up nazi-SS), a bit of The Handmaid’s Tale, a bit of Children of Men, it’s a decent dystopian drama. I’ve seen it get a ton of praise, but I find them too much. The show is fine, it’s a strong European production, but also has some pretty strong flaws, characters taking weird decisions, and somehow, in Madrid, a city with several million occupants all the characters seem to be connected somehow and the show is riddled soon by bloated storylines that could be axed from the get go or that straight up make no sense. All in all, an okay watch, four popcorns because good European productions are rare, and the bar is not that high.
