Águila Roja

This series was light, well written, with great characters, very good acting, and reminiscent of times when gore and sexual crudeness were not a must to make it. Thank you!

If it's possible to respond here in any way can anyone let me know which season and episode it was? thanks!

It's pretty difficult to describe what people do in other parts of the world when you have no idea what that part of the world is or how their people are. Lots of criticism came to this fantastic series because it was not like the American ones people are used to.

RTVE is the largest and publicly owned radio and TV conglomerate of Spain. And, for many years, the only option. The only one with money to make a series. But they never had anything close to Aguila Roja. This one goes over the top and more.

A very handsome, educated and able man is the avenger of the people in a time of extreme poverty, overwhelming power in the hands of kings and the church and little to no education. That's the setting for this "Siglo de Oro" series. Now in its 9th year, it obviously has many flaws and sometimes even goes backward. But, all in all, it's a very enjoyable thing to watch with tons of period props, dresses, historical references, love affairs and the omnipresent doom of the powers to be lingering in the air the people of Madrid had to breath. The fights are the centerpiece of almost all episodes and they're done beautifully with weapons of the age.

It will even take you through many of the torture machines of the time and their crooked uses.

Enjoyable!

Well this is literally the first Spanish series I started watching back in 2012 when I was a teenager. To be honest I loved it from the beginning watching first episodes but due to some problems I could only watch it until season 7. The main reason I stopped watching it, was the TV Channel ( Gem TV ) that stopped dubbing the rest of the series; so since I don't understand Spanish I started looking for subtitles for the last two seasons but I ended up with nothing! There weren't even English subtitles! So I gave up until few days ago after some years I noticed some of my Persian countrymen ( Aguila Roja fans ) have recently made subtitles for the rest of the series. I can't be happier. And in the end I recommend this series to those who love history, sword fightings, drama, comedy and action all in just one package.

adventures. crumbs of Golden Century of Spain. not real convincing but nice. a film who reminds a lot of Romantic heroes. and who preserves the flavor of classic justice maker portrait. the script is not surprising. the performances are decent. but it has a basic virtue who defines its charm - the respect for the old recipes. in strange manner, that does it seductive. because it propose a different Zorro and Don Quijote, a not bad image of Spanish social categories, a mixture of religion and politic who is far to be credible but seems define contemporary cases. a film who has many ways. and who has the courage to give, with a low budget, a slice of a historical period in a not boring style. it is not Hollywood but it is a good product. simple, naive, touching, for kids and for the admirers of old fashion stories.