If you like me True Detective, the minimal island Y stranger things (so in a triad plan), it is impossible not to like it fair. No, it is not the adaptation to the small screen of the controversial book by Ana Iris Simón, but rather a thriller that is irrefutable proof that the old format of the Spanish series that had to be liked by the grandmother to the smallest of the home is dead and gone thanks to the rise of streaming platforms.
In the 90s, several events that marked the time began in the same way: a town at parties, a body that appeared the next morning under strange circumstances, a girl that no one ever saw again… However, Fair: The darkest light stands out from the crowd of the dead girl and it is her parents who disappear in a series that engages from the first moment and that dominates the times with the best of the know-how of the genre in English.
The parents of two teenage sisters (very different from each other, we are in the nineties for a reason) have disappeared and, furthermore, they are involved in what has happened. It is the day of San Juan and the water of the swamp of a small Andalusian village has dawned red with the blood of the bodies that float in it naked. With signs, moreover, of having belonged to a sect or having undergone some type of ritual.
Played by Carla Campra and Ana Tomeno, one of the main dramatic axes of the series is the relationship between the sisters Eva and Sofía and how it evolves shaped by how they are affected by what happened. Nevertheless, the great hook of the series is not in the emotional but in the suspense.
Although, we are not talking about a black story to use because there is terror and constant warnings that the paranormal lurks. Are Eva and Sofia’s parents still alive? Why are they involved in the ritual death of a group of people in the mines? What secret does the town keep? These are questions that already begin to eat up in the first half of the first episode.
It is true that the pace slows down in the following ones, but the ending does not disappoint and leaves the door open for more and better seasons on Netflix. At the moment, the series has already crept into the top 10 of the streaming platform and the real town in which it was filmed: Zahara de la Sierrais already marked on the map for lovers of rural tourism.
It is a town located in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, in the province of Cádiz, on the slopes of the Sierra del Jaral and It is part of the Route of the White Towns. Perfect for hiking trails and appreciating their crafts. Especially the crochet.
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