SummaryThe Professor (Álvaro Morte) plans a major heist with the help of eight people in the Spanish crime drama series known as La Casa de Papel in Spain.
SummaryThe Professor (Álvaro Morte) plans a major heist with the help of eight people in the Spanish crime drama series known as La Casa de Papel in Spain.
Money Heist. Season 1. Brilliant plan! This is one of the most amazing bank robbery series (although this is my first such experience). Almost all the characters are interesting, and it’s fascinating to watch them, and you almost never know what will happen in the next moment. The Professor is a separate star of this series. This is such a perfectly thought out plan that you only envy the work of his brain, but will the plan continue to follow the orders of the Professor?
1st season of money is just breathtaking, its beyond perfect. I cant describe how good it is. Many amazing plot twists, perfectly shows personalities of each character. I love how the heist starts right in the first part and every preparing, backstory etc is shown during the heist.
I sort of get the hype over Money Heist but I do think it sort of suffers from being waaaaay too rated. It's a decent crime drama but, for my money, it has a really bad tendency to drag. It lasts 13 episodes for a story that realistically could have been told in 6 or 7. I noticed that season 2 has a reduced episode of count so I think I will check it out. I mean this clearly shows that I don't hate it massively. I just felt like it kinda reminded me of the old Netflix Marvel shows where I know they would be much improved without all the filler. One final nitpick is that occasionally it falls into deus ex machina territory which, unfortunately, is one of my pet hates.
Despite these issues, I'd still say on the whole I enjoyed it; it has a very interesting premise and it's good enough to get it over the line. However, if I find season 2 hasn't much improved I'd say I'm extremely likely to drop it. 5 seasons of a show that is barely above average (imo) just isn't worth it for me.
It opens with a badass grrl who meets The Professor by shoving a gun in his crotch. The dialog, especially the voice-over, feels written by a teenager. It's hammy and predictable. Then they're all in a "classroom" and the The Professor explains his scheme, all the while these would-be "cream of the crop" thieves he's recruited joke around and snicker like little kids.
It's probably okay if you're the age for it, but I like heist films with whip-crack dialog like The Sting, and a plot that keeps me guessing. Money Heist felt predictable and formulaic from the first line of dialog.