The three chapters that make up Belascoarán are based on three novels by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, a man from Gijon who has lived in Mexico since childhood and has not lost touch with his roots – here is Black Week at his initiative from Gijón – and it’s not exactly a series: there are three feature films, to be seen in any order, which tell the investigations of an engineer-turned-independent detective, a career change prompted by the frivolity of his hitherto capricious and consumerist wife was motivated.
And when in the first of the feature films, Días de combate, the protagonist participates in a kind of know-how on Mexican television in order to raise the necessary money and start his new profession, he manages to solve the case of a serial strangler and meet the one , who will end up being his sentimental partner, the amazing Paulina Gaitán. In Cosa fácil he will face a double challenge: kidnapping the daughter of a rising TV star and murdering a factory union leader. It’s one of the few occasions when the plot invades the capital’s glamorous neighborhoods and already ratifies one of the novels’ constants: that police incompetence is joined by corruption.
Finally, another constant element reappears in There Will Be No Happy End: violence, or more specifically, the ease with which the trigger is pulled. An interesting series (Netflix) set in the seventies that adds to the script some references to the previous and brutal repression of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas by the police, starring Luis Gerardo Méndez very correctly.
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