This show is a lot of fun and very well produced, as you would expect from Netflix. It is quite funny at times but I think what shines in this venture is the acting and directing (good directing to me means good acting, a good director brings out good acting). The casting is perfect especially the two principal roles played by Luis Gerardo Méndez and Mariana Treviño, the brother-sister combo. The sister is passed over for the presidency of the club and it is given to her younger half-brother after the death of their father. Chava, the half-brother is sort of a half-wit ego-maniac intent on running the club into the ground while Isabel works furiously to place her fingers in the holes in the dike left by Chava.
It's a cool premise for a series with a lot of room to work, all in the posh setting of the Mexican elite. It reminds me a bit of Entourage in this manner so it sort of has a fantasy appeal for viewers, one that hopefully won't spin towards class resentment.
Because this is about football there is plenty of room to play around with winning and losing. In the early episodes there is almost nothing about the game and when finally they do emphasize football in episode 6 it's the best episode up till then, by far.
I am so thankful that Netflix is now making series for a Spanish audience. I hate to say it but so far it is head and shoulders above any Spanish series I have seen thus far. Add to this the excellent Narcos series and you have to think that Netflix with be the best source of content for Spanish viewers as well as others not put off by reading subtitles (I have to admit that the Mexican Spanish is a bit difficult for me at times and I wish there were Spanish subtitles).
It's a cool premise for a series with a lot of room to work, all in the posh setting of the Mexican elite. It reminds me a bit of Entourage in this manner so it sort of has a fantasy appeal for viewers, one that hopefully won't spin towards class resentment.
Because this is about football there is plenty of room to play around with winning and losing. In the early episodes there is almost nothing about the game and when finally they do emphasize football in episode 6 it's the best episode up till then, by far.
I am so thankful that Netflix is now making series for a Spanish audience. I hate to say it but so far it is head and shoulders above any Spanish series I have seen thus far. Add to this the excellent Narcos series and you have to think that Netflix with be the best source of content for Spanish viewers as well as others not put off by reading subtitles (I have to admit that the Mexican Spanish is a bit difficult for me at times and I wish there were Spanish subtitles).