Tijuana

Although I don't speak Spanish (I do speak Italian) I am picking it up fast from the many superb Spanish language series that are available on Netflix. However, this was a great disappointment. I cannot fault the acting or the production which was very professional and together these were the series redeeming features. However, the plot, the story line and the characters leave a lot to be desired. The plot is so slow as to be sleep inducing; the story line is so narrow that it completely fails to involve the audience and the characters are given so little depth that they remain shallow and uninteresting. In fact it took 4 episodes before I started to remember the names of the main characters. The sub-plots are left unresolved and they are dis-connected and inconsequencial that this hardly seems to matter. All in all I struggled to stay awake through a number of the episodes and although early on, I rewatched the scenes that I had missed , by episode 8 I gave up and just carried on knowing that I had missed nothing worth racapping. Incidentally there is absolutely NOTHING I this series to justify an 18 rating - No violence, No sex, No nudity and No profanity (other than everyday natural Mexican/Spanish street vulgarity). A lot of really good acting, brilliant direction and top rank production wasted on a bum plot, story line and script.