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Crime Drama
Spanish     6.879     2019     Spain

Overview

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.

Reviews

J. D. Parent wrote:
Summary: Two sisters have no idea what they are getting into when they board a fancy ship going from Spain to Brazil. The journey is filled with love, death and shocking secrets that arise. The show is fast paced showing not only the sisters journey, but the twisted stories of those close to them. It will keep you wondering who the bad guy really is until the very end. The sisters go through many challenges and struggles as they untangle a dark web of family lies. The other passengers close to them also deal with their fair share of trouble, showing their true colors. Personal opinion: I thought this was a really interesting show with many intriguing twists and turns. I admired Eva a bit more than her sister due to her more determined and curious approach to things. I did also lose quite a bit of respect for Caroline in season 2. After knowing some of the things her husband did, she blindly chose to stick by him. The story stays interesting with the added subplots of secondary characters in both seasons who are involved in troubles and murders of their own. In season 2, a group of new members are introduced and even a ghost. The fact that they are all stuck on the boat together only adds to the suspense and drama. When they finally reach port in season two there is an action packed ending. Certain situations are left unresolved, leaving some drama for season 3.

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Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur. Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio. The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.

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Matador
1978