Undoubtedly, welcome to eden (not “al”) is one of the most important Spanish-language Netflix releases of the year. After a long wait, in which the information and images have been revealed with droppers, the series has arrived on the streaming platform and in trends we have had the opportunity to take a look before its release. This is what you can expect from her.
Put in an audiovisual blender lostthe Fyre Festival, The Hunger Games Y the squid game and the result will be something as unique as this highly addictive choral series. Its first season mixes the thriller, the romance, the adventure and the mystery in the middle of a nature of disturbing beauty, where the characters and the plot are taken to the extreme in crescendo with each of the eight chapters.
Amaia Salamanca leads a cast in which the vast majority are new actors. She does it with a role that is reminiscent of another contemporary reference: that of Nicole Kidman in Nine Perfect Strangers. As the actress explained to us about it a few weeks ago, Astrid is “a key character. She is as if she were the hinge of the entire series.” She, together with her husband Erik (Guillermo Pfening) runs the Eden Foundation, with which “they want to form a large universal family” in an environment that respects climate change.
A new batch of deceived members arrives at this sectarian-island community with the promise of an exclusive party and the promise to change their lives. The big problem is that they have not been able to tell anyone and have left the phone at home before leaving… However, whether they know it consciously or not, deep down it is a group of young people who seek to escape from life that have. They will have no choice but to build a family and new hierarchies, turning the series around their day-to-day and dynamics.
Little by little they will discover the layers of darkness that hides that promised paradise and it will be in this new group of young people where the manipulative and Machiavellian Astrid finds her nemesis. To Zoa the interpreted Amaia Aberasturi, who already fell in love with us in coven) and that he does it again this time carrying the weight of the plot.
Although this fiction does not invent anything new, the truth is that it fulfills its main objective, which is to offer addictive chapters to a mass audience. The plot engages from the beginning, while serious dilemmas are raised and, although the rhythm does not remain the same high in all episodes, it always rises until it explodes in a final climax.
However, it must be said that you can end up remembering too much lost in one of the worst negative points of the legendary American series: ask more questions than answers. So, it looks like we’re going to need a second season. Every cloud has a silver lining…
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