This Netflix Spanish Thriller Delivers Two Stories in One
Plenty of thrillers have been adapted for film or television after finding success as novels. A number of these have found a home on Netflix, as Bird Box and Mike Flannagan's The Haunting of Hill House, and Bly Manor, have all experienced success on the platform. In 2020, Carlos Montero Castiñeira brought his novel El desorden que dejas (The Mess You Leave Behind) to life.
Following the international success of Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, many people began to realize the amount of cinema and television they have missed out on by only watching English programs. Parasite is the only foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, though several, including this year's Drive My Car, have been nominated. Streaming platforms like Netflix have plenty of non-English projects to view, and one of them that's worth watching is the 8-episode Spanish series, The Mess You Leave Behind.
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The Mess You Leave Behind is a Spanish thriller set in Galicia, Spain, with an intricate narrative. The story alters between two literature teachers: Raquel (Inma Cuesta) and Viruca (Bárbara Lennie), whose lives only appear coincidentally woven at first. Those coincidences slowly become frighteningly similar as it appears Raquel is headed toward the fate Viruca suffered. Originally, it's difficult to see how these two women are (or will become) related to one another, but the basis of their commonality quickly becomes clear: Viruca has died and Raquel will be her replacement.
The series' opening image is of Viruca having a breakdown as she weighs her options. A man knocks on the door offering to help, but she coldly shoos him away. Soon after, viewers are introduced to
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