'THE PLAGUE' EPIC TV SERIES
RETURNS WITH SEASON TWO!
Two years ago Spain gave us two magnificent epic TV series,
Cathedral of the Sea and
The Plague, and the second one is now finally getting its second
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| The new season starts November 15th at Movistar+ |
season. The new run of
THE PLAGUE (La Peste) will start airing November 15th on
Movistar, and if I'm not mistaken the first season aired both on BBC and Amazon, so I'm sure the new one will be distributed around the world as well set in the 16th century Seville after an outbreak of the bubonic plague. The new season will also have special airing tomorrow at this year's
Mipcom in Cannes.
The New Season
kicks off five years after the last great epidemic of plague
in Spain. The plague now in the past, Seville remains the economic and
cultural capital of the
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| The new season will visit Mipcom tomorrow at Cannes |
western world, maintaining its trade monopoly
with the Indies; its wealth and influence are only moving one way: Up.
However, the same is true for the city’s population. As the number of
people in the city and its hinterlands hits historical highs, the
government is struggling to feed and provide public services for its
people. Confronting huge social inequality, public discontent fuels
organized crime. One mafia, the Garduña, rules the streets, taking
advantage of the influx of local wealth and the inability of politicians
to police the city. In the New World’s Tierra del Fuego, series
protagonist Mateo (
Pablo Molinero), his faith restored in humanity
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| The first season was expensive with 1,5 million euro budget per episode |
by a community he encounters there, receives a letter from friend Valerio (
Sergio Castellanos), under death threat from Seville’s new mob bosses. Once returned to Seville he tries to help Teresa (
Patricia Lopez Arnais),
the extraordinary feminist painter, to rescue female prostitutes
enslaved in
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| The
posters show the hand of la Garduna, Sevillian mafia! They are also
adorned with symbolic elements such as pens, cards, keys or flowers. And
the backgrounds are from the paintings of da Vinci, Rafael, Caravagio |
Seville’s shanty slums, from the mob’s maws.
Meanwhile, having helped crush a rising in Aragon, Pontecorvo, a young
ambitious soldier is appointed Capitán General of Andalusia, to deal
with the mob. But how far can one man turn back the tide of history?
The posters look cool!☺
ReplyDeleteTotally!
DeleteI had the plague once. That was a bitch.
ReplyDeleteHope they did not cover you with poop to cure you, because that was one of the methods back in the good old days...
DeleteThis definitely looks like something I would watch. I hope you're right, and that it hits Amazon Prime so that I can see it. Do you know if it's in English? While my Spanish is OK, I'm not sure if I could translate quick enough to watch an entire show.
ReplyDeleteI think the first season was on Amazon with English subs. Cathedral del Mar too.
DeleteWith the rise of the anti-vaccers, how soon do too think we’ll have another outbreak of an infectious disease that wipes out masses of people?
ReplyDeleteHope it wipes out them not the innocent ones :(
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DeleteI understand some of our antivaxers as some of the vaccines they give our babies here are not given in most of the Europe and are possibly dangerous, but they do it just to steal money, I guess. But I'm not against vaccination for big illnesses, of course.
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DeleteWhat a load of crap!
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