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Money Heist on Netflix
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Money Heist on Netflix
No spoilers out of respect for those who want to watch the train wreck for themselves.

What the actual fuck?? Has anyone else seen this? I finished season 1 and I'm starting to get into watching season two, and I find myself watching more for the horror of seeing how badly a production studio can fuck up a seemingly excellent, unique plotline rather than out any sense of feeling pulled into the storyline. It's like being unable to turn your head away from the traffic accident. 

It's important to note that the show is from Spain, and I've never seen a Spanish produced TV show or movie. I've seen 3% from Brazil, and a handful of other non-American/Canadian shows, but none stood out quite like Money Heist. First of all, if you are Spanish you hold this series to be some kind of national treasure, please accept my apologies in advance. This show is horrible. 

Money Heist is the absolute, rock-bottom worst TV show I have seen in forever.

The production quality is excellent, which honestly just makes it that much more befuddling that they spent all this money on a show whose storyline is so poorly executed.

The acting isn't terrible, but I think the what was so cringeworthy about it was more so that the actors were directed to do what they did. They can't all be so unskilled. No, the common thread is the director. -I'll also forgive some of the cheesy lines because that might just be a matter of things getting lost in the translation from Spanish to English. Fine, Money Heist. You get a pass on that.

The writing is gawd-awful. Whoever wrote this had this awesome idea that they clearly wanted to write a story about. As the title of the show suggests, it involves a heist, and a particularly well conceived one. The problem seems to be that the writer likely isn't a serial bank robber, and seems to have no direct knowledge of how things work either on the polices' side of things, or the robbers' side. The assumption seems to be that viewers are neither police or government officials, and have never read or watched crime dramas, mysteries, or really any TV past their days of watching Looney Tunes. There are so many plot holes in this thing that I can't see this as even remotely playing out in a real-world scenario. The blunders the characters make are on par with Scooby-Do.  

Cue the melodrama and overacting! I think the emotional maturity of these characters is somewhere in the realm of 14 - 21 years old, and that's true even of the characters who are well into their adult years. It makes for very unlikable characters.


If you've seen Money Heist, did you like it? Is this just Spain's style? India's style is very different and it involves overacting and random, choregraphed dance sequences, but that's the chemistry that works for them and it's very successful in many parts of the world.
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Wait! I knew if I thought hard enough I'd think of something. Battlefield Earth was much, much worse than Money Heist. Battlefield Earth may as well have been written and directed by alien worshippers.
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(08-29-2020, 11:03 PM)Aliza Wrote: Wait! I knew if I thought hard enough I'd think of something. Battlefield Earth was much, much worse than Money Heist. Battlefield Earth may as well have been written and directed by alien worshippers.
(my bold)

It was, sort of... It was written, directed and acted, mainly, by scientologists. Big Grin
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Okay. I've been had. Well played, family. Well played.

Money Heist was recommended to me for the primary purpose of diverting my rage away from Trump and onto something else.
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I haven't seen "Money Heist" (La Casa de Papel) but the hundreds of 1/10 IMDb ratings would've
turned me away. Although the first 4 seasons rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.     Who knows?
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(08-30-2020, 04:26 PM)SYZ Wrote: I haven't seen "Money Heist" (La Casa de Papel) but the hundreds of 1/10 IMDb ratings would've
turned me away.  Although the first 4 seasons rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.     Who knows?

It's got really good ratings, but I don't see how. Apparently Spanish police have no security protocols whatsoever because on two occasions they escort a person they know to be a civilian into a crime scene and into the police bunker where hostage negotiations are being carried out for mundane tasks such as saying good bye, and delivering a message.
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I tried watching it but I gave up before reaching the end of the first episode.  I don't remember the specifics of why I abandoned it - that I can't remember WHY it was bad tells you just how non-memorable even its defects were.

The inaugural season of The 3% was good - they should have quit there.  After 2 episodes of its first followup season I had to quit.

It's more and more difficult to find engaging cinema.  Everything is revenge or witless CGI mayhem.  Or prosaic soap-opera.

Broadchurch is good.  So is Collateral (with Carey Mulligan).  But these are just movies stretched into multi-episodic series.

I should take the hint and find things more constructive to do than stare at the screen.  When you get up out of the chair and check the clock and three days have elapsed that's a clue too.  Tongue
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(08-29-2020, 10:33 PM)Aliza Wrote: No spoilers out of respect for those who want to watch the train wreck for themselves.

What the actual fuck?? Has anyone else seen this? I finished season 1 and I'm starting to get into watching season two, and I find myself watching more for the horror of seeing how badly a production studio can fuck up a seemingly excellent, unique plotline rather than out any sense of feeling pulled into the storyline. It's like being unable to turn your head away from the traffic accident. 

It's important to note that the show is from Spain, and I've never seen a Spanish produced TV show or movie. I've seen 3% from Brazil, and a handful of other non-American/Canadian shows, but none stood out quite like Money Heist. First of all, if you are Spanish you hold this series to be some kind of national treasure, please accept my apologies in advance. This show is horrible. 

Money Heist is the absolute, rock-bottom worst TV show I have seen in forever.

The production quality is excellent, which honestly just makes it that much more befuddling that they spent all this money on a show whose storyline is so poorly executed.

The acting isn't terrible, but I think the what was so cringeworthy about it was more so that the actors were directed to do what they did. They can't all be so unskilled. No, the common thread is the director. -I'll also forgive some of the cheesy lines because that might just be a matter of things getting lost in the translation from Spanish to English. Fine, Money Heist. You get a pass on that.

The writing is gawd-awful. Whoever wrote this had this awesome idea that they clearly wanted to write a story about. As the title of the show suggests, it involves a heist, and a particularly well conceived one. The problem seems to be that the writer likely isn't a serial bank robber, and seems to have no direct knowledge of how things work either on the polices' side of things, or the robbers' side. The assumption seems to be that viewers are neither police or government officials, and have never read or watched crime dramas, mysteries, or really any TV past their days of watching Looney Tunes. There are so many plot holes in this thing that I can't see this as even remotely playing out in a real-world scenario. The blunders the characters make are on par with Scooby-Do.  

Cue the melodrama and overacting! I think the emotional maturity of these characters is somewhere in the realm of 14 - 21 years old, and that's true even of the characters who are well into their adult years. It makes for very unlikable characters.


If you've seen Money Heist, did you like it? Is this just Spain's style? India's style is very different and it involves overacting and random, choregraphed dance sequences, but that's the chemistry that works for them and it's very successful in many parts of the world.

*ticks off Money Heist as an annoyance I don't need*

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I do not have netflix and I do not watch TV. I am watching the X-files (I bought the full set in march) and I just arrived at season 4.
In TV I jst watch NHK for news & documentary (the japanese TV in english), the show "How it´s made" and some documentaries from germany TV & youtube...
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