✔️ 2022-09-16 13:30:24 – Paris/France.
When you see the Bamboo logo in a series, you can already sense what is to come. There won't be any big sci-fi fights or outrageous action: in all likelihood it will be a spanish period series with a very marked target. The production company perfected this type of series with 'Velvet', 'Las Chicas del Cable' or 'Alta mar' until they became almost a genre in itself.
And “A Private Matter” doesn't mean a 180 degree turn…although it does try to change it up a bit.
Spanish Enola Holmes
The new Amazon Prime Video series tries to innovate with a very strong female character accompanied by her faithful butler trying to solve a series of crimes in Vigo. The opening bars are excellent and tell you everything you need to know about her: she's reckless, she doesn't believe in authoritydefies her family and attacks the feminine standards of the time.
The problem is that after the script is seen with the need to repeat it again and again. When the new wave of feminism snuck into the mainstream, many of these new products tended to exaggerate and reframe the narrative to make it clear. The problem is that in 2022, after "Fleabag" or "I Could Destroy You", the same four basic personality traits already seem obsolete. The story is interesting enough without needing to cram into every scene a reference to how extremely special Marina Quiroga is.
When the series gets carried away, that's when it works: moments of investigation, the inevitable comedy between Héctor and Marina, the flirtation between her and Pablo (played by a fabulous Gorka Otxoa)… When he embraces the spirit of the soap opera, he vibrates with his own voiceand it shows that everyone is having a good time with this twist-filled period adventure that, for each scene that gives hope for the future of the series, introduces another that becomes heavy and reminds us of the previous works of the producer.
They are two unique detectives
Leaving aside the constant crush on Marina's difference from society, 'A Private Matter' strays from the standard period seriesthe one in which we must settle with flat camera shots and TV aesthetics. when inspired, the image is in continuous motionwith clichés that are out of the ordinary and that try to go beyond what one might expect.
At the end of episode 2, for example, the episode lets down her hair and shows a chase scene which does not feel low budget and which culminates with a more than worthy final blow. We almost forget that to get there, we had to put up with cartoon characters (that evil cigar-smoking cop, that go-between mother) and storyline situations. And it is that in the end, although Bambú dresses in silk, Bambú remains.
Even if Jean Reno sometimes seems disoriented, it's this weirdness with which he almost seems to have learned dialogue phonetically that makes his character sometimes hilarious, no matter what the script intended to do with him. The comic side of the actor added to the decision of an Aura Garrido who knows perfectly the type of series in which she has embarkedare the two strongest assets to continue for the eight episodes of the series (of which we have seen, for the moment, two).
Journey to the past
But basically, I have to be honest with my work: no matter how well I explain my reasoned opinion, all these complaints, successes and details make no sense. "A Private Affair" is very aware of the type of public that will see it, and what it asks of them: The bamboo fulfills one hundred percent of the expectations placed on itand even goes a step further by trying to please and reach another type of audience.
The entanglements, the period costumes, the plot twiststhe strong female characters, the authority that defeats their plans and the air of a soap opera are there, and it has everything to be a success: more budget than in its previous series, better action shot and Some elite actors, among whom is, by the way, a fantastic Ángela Molina.
"A Private Matter" is a perfect series for audiences who have enjoyed the company's previous productions, and he does not deceive anyone about his intentions. Its script may still need a few revisions to eliminate the obvious and repetitive regarding its protagonist's character, but it makes up for it with a few quickly shot scenes that They don't seek to stray from the twenty-peso novel, which is as functional and fun as it is forgettable. Like a good Bamboo series.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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