Sandra Harris Writes

  ALBA. (2021) BASED ON THE TURKISH DRAMA SERIES, FATMAGUL’UN SUCU NE? DIRECTED BY PABLO GUERRERO, CARLOTA MARTINEZ-PEREDA AND HUMBERTO MIRO. STARRING ELENA RIVERA, ERIC MASIP, CATERINA MENGS, ADRIANA OZORES, ALVARO RICO, POL HERMOSO, JASON FERNANDEZ, FRANKY MARTIN, CANDELA CRUZ AND ANTONIO GIL. REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. © ‘Our power derives from denying theirs.’ There are almost too many twists and turns in this Spanish psychological drama-thriller, and it could have done without maybe three of its thirteen fifty-minute episodes, but I still really enjoyed this. It reminded me a lot of the English drama series LIAR , which in turn was based on the Spanish drama series LIES AND DECEIT , as drug-rape is the main topic in all three Netflix shows. The thing I’ve noticed with very long, multi-episode series is that they run out of steam a wee bit before the end and as a result get twistier and turnier until some of the twists are, frankly, incomprehensible. Such is the case ...

SQUID GAME. (2021) A NETFLIX DRAMA CREATED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HWANG DONG-HYUK. STARRING LEE JUNG-JAE, WI HA-JOON, JUNG HO-YEON AND PARK HAE-SOO. REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. © This Korean survival drama-slash-horror/thriller is Netflix’s most watched show ever, and that’s saying something. I gave in to pressure to watch it over Halloween 2021 after family members claimed it to be the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread. And whaddya know, they were nearly right too, lol. I loved it, and was barely breathing for some of the tenser moments, and it was chock-a-block with tense moments. I was sad when I was finished watching it, and I would definitely watch any sequel the powers-that-be had in mind, though I truly don’t know how any sequel could better the original series. I just want to note also that Hwang-Dong-Hyuk, the creator, writer and director of the series, should be the richest and the happiest guy in the world right now. Should be , I said, because things don’t often turn out...