"Success is proof of the love that God feels for each one of us". This phrase, said by one of his characters, could be the terrible synthesis of this series. As in a kind of prequel to The Handmaid's Tale (the series and the book) or the novel Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, we are facing a dystopia that poses the possible arrival of a religious leader in a Latin American government. A scenario where in this case the neoliberal establishment closes ranks with religious fundamentalism; two nightmares made one
In the act of presenting the presidential formula of a coalition headed by a neoliberal presidential candidate and a vice president who is the leader of the most powerful evangelical church in Argentina, the presidential candidate is assassinated. This is the trigger for a series that investigates the motives for the murder and the plot of interests behind that coalition.
"Success is proof of the love that God feels for each one of us"
Stars: Chino Darín, Nancy Dupláa, Joaquín Furriel
Put into the mouth of an important character, this phrase is a powerful synthesis of this ambitious dystopia by Marcelo Piñeyro and Claudia Piñeiro, a political thriller that focuses more on the religious leg of the coalition than on that of its neoliberal partners and that, As an advance, I will say that it goes from less to more.
The kingdom is not a series for the impatient; it goes from less to more. It is ambitious and time must be given to the development of its subplots and its characters, in order to better understand them, their links and what they represent, overcoming the initial negative feeling of being before a fragmentary structure and characters apparently without psychological depth. who act as mere chess pieces in a script, as in many Spanish police officers. Fortunately, the feeling is dissipating as the chapters go by.
characters
The character gallery is extensive. In the first place, the family that runs the Church of Light, made up of Pastor Emilio Vázquez Pena (Diego Peretti) and his wife Pastora Elena (the real leader of the congregation, headed by Mercedes Morán) and the three children of the couple. , with different functions in its structure: Magdalena (Victoria Almeida), Pablo (Patricio Aramburu) and Ana (Vera Spinetta) who are joined by Óscar, the former's husband (Alfonso Tort). The evangelical team is joined by Julio Clamens (Chino Darín), a kind of legal representative of the Church and Emilio's trusted person, and two managers of a children's and youth home supported by the Church: Tadeo (Peter Lanzani) and Remigio (Nicolás García Hume) and one of the inmates of the home.
On the other hand, we will meet Rubén Osorio (Joaquín Furriel), an obscure and unscrupulous political operator, campaign manager and political owner of the coalition.
Finally (and without exhausting the list), the legal leg of the story is held by the prosecutor Roberta Candia, in charge of the murder investigation (Nancy Dupláa), her assistant Ramiro (Santiago Korovsky) and the Attorney General (Alejandro Awada ).
In this gallery there are rebellious sons and daughters of rich families, millionaire politicians, corrupt religious, committed religious, honest officials, corrupt officials and unscrupulous or novice operators.
The structure of the plot.
The structure is fragmentary. The timeline beginning with the murder alternates with flashbacks describing the history of some characters and how they met and bonded. Therefore, the leading role of the characters registers variations throughout the chapters and you have to be patient to tie the ends of a plot that at first is fragmentary, scattered and generates many questions. This causes several characters to be psychologically flat at first and take a long time to acquire dramatic thickness (although not all of them do).
The script and the dialogues.
The script, with its ingenious puzzle structure, brings together common ingredients and characters found in political thrillers, but the combination of political and religious factors gives it an original specificity. On the other hand, the identity of the murderer is known almost from the beginning, so the enigma will focus on his motives.
On the other hand, I consider that the main defect of the series is its dialogues, which in many cases are routine, without flight, so well listened to. They reinforce the initial sensation of being before thin characters who act as mere chess pieces in a script, as occurs in many Spanish police series. Fortunately, the feeling is dissipating as the chapters go by.
The characters speak clearly “in porteño”, but localisms and swear words are avoided. Some would have been useful to reinforce the dialogues.
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