This Chilean crime drama follows a quartet of fugitives as they go on the run after a drug deal goes very wrong. They are a very mixed group; Vicente Ferragut, a member of a powerful crime family; Óscar Salamanca, a former left wing opposition fighter; Mario Moreno, a brutal man who worked as a torturer for the previous right wing regime and Álvaro 'Tegui' Parraguez, an undercover police officer. The series starts with them smuggling a shipment of liquid cocaine into Chile from Bolivia; they head to the port at Valparaiso and the sale turns out to be an ambush. They flee and find themselves pursued by both police and other criminals. It soon becomes apparent that there are people in authority who are corrupt who are determined to keep details of what happened quiet so good cop Parraguez is considered a fugitive too. Over the course of the first season they travel through Chile, hiding out, dealing with various people who cross them and trying to get to the border with Argentina. After certain events at the end of the season the dynamics change but their problems are far from over as they divide and form new alliances.
I don't think I've seen any Chilean shows before but if this is anything to go by I'll have to keep my eye out for more... it was excellent. It certainly won't be for everybody; there are moments of extreme violence as well as sexually disturbing scenes. The characters are an interesting bunch; some are more sympathetic than others... some are without any redeeming features. Moreno is one of the least pleasant characters I've seen in any show; he is truly vile; Luis Gnecco does a great job bringing the character to life without making him a pantomime villain. There are several secondary characters who are almost as bad. The rest of the main cast is solid too; most notably Benjamín Vicuña and Néstor Cantillana who play Tegui and Vincente and Camila Hirane who plays Salamanca's beautiful but troubled daughter Irma who gets caught up in the action. The story is told at a good pace with action in every episode; it also shows off some fine scenery from the Bolivian border in the north to Punta Arenas in the far south. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of crime dramas who are looking for something a little different.
These comments are based on watching the series in Spanish with English subtitles.
