Netflix describes the new Spanish drama The gardener Like a “romantic thriller”, which makes you really look at him. She is a thriller because she involves a young man who does not feel emotions and kills people for living a greeting who falls in love with a woman who is supposed to be her next goal. That sounds like a romantic thriller for us.
Opening shot: A shot of waves colliding. A truck leads to the shore, and we see a man who is preparing to swim in cold water. Suddenly, someone appears behind man and injects a green liquid into his neck; Man loses consciousness and dies almost instantly.
The yeast: “Mi Elmer,” says La China Jurado (Cecilia Suárez) in a voice about her son Elmer (Álvaro Rico). She continues to describe the traumatic head injury that suffered a duration of a car accident when she was six years old; As a result, Elmer can’t feel emotions. At one point, China was a successful actor in Mexico, but has raised Elmer Solo in Spain. His goal is to buy their parents’ house in Mexico and move them there.
As China says, Elmer’s inability to feel emotions is convenient for some things; While China and Elmer direct a gardening business and a nursery, their secondary business implies that Elmer is a hired murderer. Elmer, whose life has been dedicated to horticulture, invents a poisonous serum of his plants, injected him coldly into his victims, then buries the victims in his award -winning garden, providing a fertilizer for their plants.
When the disappearance of the swimmer is reported, the detectives of the Pontevedra Torres Police (Francis Lorenzo) and Carrera (María Vázquez) are baffled by the fact that the body has not yet been discovered. While Torres thinks it was an accident, a career feels curious why the swimmer’s possessions were so perfectly folded and other peculiarities.
It turns out that the man of man paid China to kill him, so she and her son can finally end the abuse that submitted them. Another potential client, Sabela (Emma Suárez), arrives at the nursery to pay China for a young woman named Violeta (Catalina Sopelana) to be killed; She is convinced that Violeta is responsible for her son’s premature death. The money he offers will be enough to let China buy the house in Mexico, so that she and Elmer can leave Spain forever.
Elmer finds and continues Violeta, but after fainting in the street, he wakes up violet standing on him. He begins to feel something for her. In fact, he realizes that he begins to feel in general for the first time from the accident. And the feelings that are developing towards Violeta will make it really difficult to kill her.
What programs will you remember? The gardener It is a bit Motel BatesA bit RightAnd a little Pushing margaritasWithout the lyrics, the tweeness.
OUR TOMA: The gardener, Created by Miguel Sáez Carral, it is much more melodramatic than the first few of the first episode might seem. It has all the elements of a program that will go to some dramatic extremes, from Elmer’s brain injury, and how in some way it is miraculously cured almost two decades after it happened, with its love story with violet until its relationship too close to its mother. However, Carral manages to put the most extravagant elements of this story in a context that is actually based enough to make the program very vigilable.
We take a look or Elmer as a child after the accident, with China teaching how to pretend certain emotions to fit a little better in society. But we are quite sure that Elmer never fits completely, and only although he did not feel emotions, he must have some kind of leg or visceral discomfort that has governed his life. That is why it turned to horticulture, where plants do not judge you and simply grow if you do everything.
What we cannot see, at least not in the first episode, is how China and Elmer began to execute an accompaniment of the side of killing by contract. For the sake of history, we hope to take a look at how everything began, as special seems that China was able to convince Elmer to do so, taking advantage of the fact that he cannot feel anything.
We also hope that your new ability to feel won things only arrive in your love for violet. This is a guy who probably barely remembers how emotions were, so seeing him experiment them for the first time in decades should seem strange and surprising to him.
It seems that the story will end with Elmer going against his mother, since China wants the payment involved in Violeta’s exit, so he can take the matter in his own hands, even when Elmer becomes deeper with his first love. If that is the case, it will be fun to see it, given the annual way, your relationship is at the beginning of the series.
Sex and skin: None in the first episode.
Separation shot: Elmer and Violeta kiss, while Elmer still has a syringe with his poisonous serum in his pocket. Let’s say now has many or contradictory feelings.
Star Star: For some reason, Lorenzo and Vázquez, as detectives Torres and Carrera, have their own history, with a career thinking that Torres has things for her, the fact that she is married.
The majority of the pilot line: Carrera jokes with towers that must have been traumatized by Jaws When I was a child, which seems impossible until we realized that Jaws It was 50 years ago. That made us feel old.
Our call: Transmit it. While there are many absurd elements in The gardenerThe elements are sufficiently based on reality to look plausible. And the more plausible this show seems, the better it will be.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) Write about food, entertainment, parenting and technology, but he is not necessary: he is a television addict. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Rollingstone.com” Vanityfair.comFast Company and other places.