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Something is constantly happening in the series "Who Killed Sarah?", And yet it is a bomb of boredom

Netflix's new hit series is full of self-importance, plot holes and dramatic music that accompanies even the most trivial scenes.

"Who killed Sarah?"

She would probably like to resemble Aaron Spelling's glorious soap operas, but feels more like a regression to "Deadly Money"

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Ben Byron Braude

Friday, 09 April 2021, 00:00

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Trailer for the first season of "Who Killed Sarah?"

(Netflix)

Ever since "Who Killed Sarah?"

On Netflix about two weeks ago, the Mexican series received a massive promotion on the home page, which accordingly lifted it to the top of the list of popular content on the service.

Everyone is talking about her.

Even MK Meirav Ben-Ari of Yesh Atid tweeted a recommendation about her and immediately won attacks from followers who thought it was a message against the prime minister's wife.

So that's it, I wish "who killed Sarah?"

Was as interesting as political life in Israel.

In fact, I wish it was interesting at all.

Most of her failure lies in the fact that she markets as something she is not: this is not a thriller but a soap opera for all intents and purposes.

Something he might have wanted to resemble Aaron Spelling's glorious soap operas, but feels like 'deadly money' from the nineties.

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The investigation into her death is not interesting.

"Who killed Sarah?"

(Photo: Netflix)

In case you haven’t been exposed to it by now, here’s a summary of the series ’plot, one that also includes some spoilers, but since the amount of twists there are in each episode is enough for a few seasons of“ Breaking Bad, ”there’s no point in worrying about them.

Sometime in the late 1990s, a group of young men and women (beautiful and beautiful of course) spend time on a boat on a lake in the resort town of Acapulco.

Among the youngsters are also Alex Guzman (Manolo Cardona) and his sister Sarah (yes, the same one from the series name) who rides a water parachute.

The two brothers, who come from a lower-class family, spend time with their friends from the wealthy Lascano family (the source of the money will still play a role here), including Rudolfo (Alejandro Nunes) and Chama (Eugenio Siller).

Tears in the parachute harnesses lead to Sarah falling to her death before the eyes of the stunned young men.

After her tragic death, Alex is called in for a conversation with Cesar Lascano (Hines Garcia Mian), the family patriarch, who asks him to take responsibility for the death in exchange for providing him with a reduced sentence and medical treatment for his ailing mother.

Alex pleads guilty, but contrary to Cesar's promise he is charged with premeditated murder and sent to thirty years in prison.

We join Alex as soon as he learns that his sentence is set after 18 years and he is released from prison.

If this sounds a bit like the "Count of Monte Cristo" plot, you are right.

Alex will do his best to find out who really killed Sarah, and on the way of course embitter the lives of the bastard Lascano family.

Throughout the ten episodes of the first season (there is already a second season coming up next month) we are exposed to flashbacks from Alex's imprisonment period in which he planned his steps, alongside ones that show additional angles from the day Sarah died.

To add more fuel to the fire, Alex falls in love with Alaskano's youngest daughter, Alyssa (Carolina Miranda), who herself does not know what really happened to Sarah and who is responsible for it.

Add to that a plot line about gambling and human trafficking, a hiding hacker who stirs things up remotely and a lot of Latin passion, and you get a series that does not have a single poor or quiet moment.

Yes, something happens all the time in "Who Killed Sarah?", And miraculously she still manages not to interest.

To me this is a mystery worth exploring.

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Double miss.

"Who killed Sarah?"

(Photo: Netflix)

There are very few things that manage to differentiate "Sarah" from the other soap operas you may have seen to date.

It's not badly filmed at all and features a variety of nice locations, it has lots of sex and male and female nudity (of course most of the cast is very attractive), it features a plot line of a proud couple in the process of surrogacy (Chama and his partner), and generally feels like no investment some money.

All of these do not begin to cover even for a moment the fact that this is a series that has no trace of self-humor, let alone an awareness of the pompousness with which it is played and staged.

I’m not talking about the plot holes at all, in that sense it’s just as believable as any series you’ve seen on Time Travel.

Particularly bad is the music that accompanies every, but every, moment in the series, and creates excessive dramatization.

She arrives in all types of scenes - from a meeting between Alex and Rudolfo, through a shooting scene to pouring a glass of wine in front of the TV.

By the way, it seems that the creators of the series also noticed this - after the first three episodes, the use of music became less rude but still disturbing.

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regression.

"Who killed Sarah?"

(Photo: Netflix)

If you still do not understand, even though it manages to get millions around the world to press play, "Sarah" is not a good series, even very bad. Netflix's miss with it is double, because alongside its huge and not always quality offering, if the streaming giant has managed to do anything good it is to teach us that there is great content not even in the English language. In fact, her series seems to be the best thing that has happened to the Spanish language in recent years. The hysteria surrounding "The House of Paper" (a series I did not like but compared to "Sarah" seems to be a masterpiece of sophistication), the sex appeal of "Elite", the camp of "House of Flowers", and most recently "Red Sky" starring Eli Esposito (of Creator of "Paper House" Alex Pina) which deals with the story of three women in prostitution who go on a journey of revenge with their pimp. They all showed a different Spanish TV, very far from the content of the Viva channel.

In the first moments of "Who Killed Sarah?" Sounds like Ricky Martin's hit "Livin 'La Vida Loca", a song that everyone who even breathed in the late nineties remembers well. In this sense "Sarah" does manage to take us back in time to the end of the nineties, not only in the look or music of the period, but especially in the very poor quality television we all knew from those years.

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