If something is clear in the season and a half that has been offered so far of the Mexican series
The Envoys,
it is that its creator and director, the Argentine Juan José Campanella, has achieved wonderful entertainment with more than estimable actors: a, perhaps, excessively 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 throughout the wide world.
What is also clear is that Campanella, or the production company, assume that viewers are fluent in Italian, which is why they consider that it is not necessary to subtitle the numerous dialogues that occur throughout the eight episodes of the first season that is shown. SkyShowtime.
They overestimate the audience's presumed polyglot cosmopolitanism.
The action of the first season takes place in a small town in the interior of Mexico, San Acacio.
A town, apparently, in which strange, miraculous phenomena occur.
And that's where the two priests sent by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith arrive to analyze them.
The contrast between the domestic austerity of the town and the magnificence of the cardinals' halls and offices is much more evident than the authenticity of the hypothetical miracles.
It is seen that the Doctrine of Faith entails scandalous privileges.
What has been seen from the incomplete second season, incomplete because those responsible for its exhibition have graciously decided so, to the misfortune of those who follow it [the remaining four episodes will be available on March 15], occurs in Forcarei, a town in Pontevedra with a hermitage in ruins and a mayor, a wonderful Marta Etura, who will have to face some antediluvian brothers who, unfortunately for them, will have to accept that their president appears brutally murdered among the ruins of the hermitage of San Amaro.
The plot focuses on a vision of one of the three blind nuns, the only inhabitants of the local convent, who live in Forcarei, a vision that allowed them to find a girl who disappeared decades ago.
The new mission of the two priests will be to verify what is miraculous about the nun's vision or if it is a hoax.
A second season that, as seen so far, is better than the first, both being entertaining enough to keep you sitting in front of the television, probably the greatest aspiration of its creators.
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