If something is clear in the season and a half of the Mexican series “The Envoys” offered so far, it is that its creator and director, the Argentine Juan José Campanella, has managed to create wonderful entertainment with more than admirable actors: a, perhaps, a very expressive Miguel Ángel Silvestre, a sober and effective Luis Gerardo Méndez and an extraordinary Assira Abbate, two priests and a nun with a specific task: to verify the authenticity of the possible miracles that occur all over the world. It is also clear that Campanella or the production company assumes that the audience speaks fluent Italian, which is why they do not consider it necessary to subtit the numerous dialogues that take place in the eight episodes of the first season shown. SkyShowtime. They overestimate the supposed polyglot cosmopolitanism of the audience.
The action of the first season takes place in a small town in the interior of Mexico, San Acacio. Apparently a city where strange, wondrous phenomena occur. And that's exactly where the two priests sent by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith arrive to analyze them. The contrast between the domestic austerity of the city and the splendor of the cardinals' salons and offices is much more obvious than the authenticity of the hypothetical miracles. It turns out that the doctrine brings with it scandalous privileges.
What we saw of the incomplete second season, incomplete because those responsible for its exhibition graciously decided so, to the misfortune of those who pursue it. [los cuatro episodios restantes estarán disponibles el 15 de marzo], is set in Forcarei, a town in Pontevedra with a ruined hermitage and a mayor, a wonderful Marta Etura, who must face some antediluvian brothers who, unfortunately for them, must assume that their president appears to have been brutally murdered among the ruins Hermitage of San Amaro. The plot centers on a vision of one of the three blind nuns, the only resident of the local monastery, who live in Forcarei, a vision that enabled them to find a girl who had disappeared decades ago. The two priests' new mission will be to verify what is a miracle about the nun's vision or whether it is a fake. A second season that, as seen so far, is better than the first, both entertaining enough to keep you sitting in front of the TV, which is probably the biggest wish of its creators.
You can follow EL PAÍS Television on X or sign up here to receive our weekly newsletter.
Get the TV newsletter
All the latest news from broadcasters and platforms, with interviews, news and analyses, as well as recommendations and reviews from our journalists
LOG IN
Subscribe to continue reading
Read without limits
_