Someone mentioned the heist movie La Casa De Papel on Netflix a while back. The same makers have got a series on SBS On Demand called The Pier (El Embarcadero) that I have one episode (of 8) to go.
A successful Valencia architect, Alejandra, is informed that her husband, Oscar (one of the stars of :a Casa) has committed suicide on a pier in the Albufera, a wetlands reserve just south of Valencia. In looking through his phone, she discovers he has been leading a double life with another woman in the Albufera and indeed, has had a daughter by her.
She inveigles her way into the other woman’s life, and for the first 5 episodes, it’s all about the grieving. But then various facts pop up that mean it might not have been suicide.
Quite an enjoyable show. Alex, played by Verónica Sánchez, is a stunner.
Funny thing is that with the recent series I saw, I Know Who You Are, set in Barcelona, and this one set in Valencia, halfway down the Mediterranean coast from Barcelona, there doesn’t seem to be any indication that Spanish (or castellano) is not the first language in those cities. Obviously people are bilingual but there’s no indication of another language, and both are modern-day, not Franco-era when other languages were essentially banned. Valencian is considered a separate language, but is really a dialect of Catalan.
