Netflix's newest sensation is
The Longest Night
, an addictive six-episode thriller
.
The action is concentrated in a single night, Christmas, in which everything happens.
As soon as the story starts, we discover
Simón Lago (Luis Callejo), a psychopath who neither feels nor suffers
and who is capable of killing anyone (literally) who crosses his path.
After murdering his last victim, he is arrested.
And that's where the good stuff begins.
If Simón has something, it is that he is a guy with a lot of power.
And that he scares the authorities with his calmness and his intelligence.
Very Hannibal Lecter style
, when he enters a psychiatric prison the matter gets out of hand.
Neither
Hugo (Alberto Ammann), the director of that center
, nor the rest of the security members are aware that
preventing Simón from being rescued by a group of paramilitaries armed
to the teeth (led by a character played by
José Luis García- Pérez
) is an almost impossible task.
The series includes many tense moments.
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From then on, the script twists, the suffocating atmosphere and the importance of
secondary characters played by Bárbara Goenaga, Roberto Álamo or Cecilia Freire
make this story addictive.
And in which
'tributes' to
La casa de papel
and
Assault on district 13
are appreciated .
The siege of Monte Baruca
, the psychiatric prison where everything happens, is the axis that configures a thriller created by those responsible for
El final del camino
and
Néboa
.
To do this, they rely on a dark photograph,
characters who reveal their cards as the story progresses
, and omnipresent background music.
And with very high endings in each chapter.
Alberto Ammann is the director of a psychiatric center.
LUIS CALLEJO IS THE STAR
Although
The longest night
could be seen as a choral series
, the importance of Luis Callejo must be underlined (a lot)
.
His composition of a sinister character, devoid of feelings and with a strange smile is not strange in an actor who has
notable film work in his filmography such as
Jefe
,
Tarde para la ira
,
Intemperie
,
Bajocero
or the recent
Malnazidos
.
There will be time to see him win that Goya Award that resists him after three nominations.
Those who
do have a Goya Award
to their credit and appear in
The Longest Night
are such well-known secondary characters as
Alberto Ammann
(
Cell 211
, a work very similar to this one due to the location of the plot) and
Roberto Álamo
(
The Great Spanish Family
,
Who God forgive us
).
Getting a prisoner out of a jail is the central axis of this story.
In the 'must' of this series is that
the script twists sometimes seem very far-fetched
or its start.
The longest night
begins with such power in its first chapter, showing too many cards, that the following ones seem less interesting in many moments.
Almost as much as
the action is not as overwhelming as it might seem
at first, by betting on the psychological development of the characters.
A deeper look at the mental problems that haunt the inmates of this psychiatric prison is missing.
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