El jardinero

This serie is regular. I watched it and enjoyed it but I won't remind it.

The acting is good. The serie was made to surprise you with things that are almost absurd. Starting with the fact that the main character has no feelings (Whats?) and a lot of other things wanting to put a mask of strangeness to a normal crime-love story.

The fliming is good, a little bit colorfull but fine.

BUt to resume, this serie doesn't add nothing new to series. It is similar to other spanish crime-series in which they tend to be very good. I enjoyed it but I don't belive in a lot of things that figure in the serie.

Don't expect some deep insight into mind of a emotionally detached serial killer. This is not Dexter or You, this is something else. A serial killer who kills for money and who, due to childhood accident, can't feel emotions. And of course falls in love with a wrong woman, causing a series of events that threaten to upend everything.

This isn't a masterpiece neither in terms of script, acting, camerawork, plot..... but is fine enough to binge when you have a craving for something different than standard fare.

Some would complain that movie doesn't really have a "good" character, all principal ones are flawed in some way, some are just more willing to admit it. But in a movie about serial killer can you really have such character?

The aesthetics of the film are in another world, the gardens and setting up, truly delightful. Ending was mindblowing too. I loved the casting of the male and female lead, and the story gradually evolves into something better. One of the best part of the film is the dog ofc. It's like, the lovers try to pull apart from each other, but fate brings them closer together, in the most unexpected ways. Could the episodes have been short? Maybe. The main thing that attracts you to the story, is how the male character, slowly grows out of the shell that his mother had put him into, all because of something that happened, which she never expected. The plot twists are so good.

The Gardener: Elmer (Alvaro Rico) totally lacks emotion due to brain damage he suffered in a car crash when he was young, his mother La China (Cecilia Suarez)lost a leg in the same accident. Now in his 20's he is a master gardener at his mother's plant nursery in Spain. His garden creations grow so well because of the fertiliser he uses, human corpses. Elmer is also a ruthless serial killer, his urges controlled by his mother who channels them towards contract killing. All is well until one target, Violeta (Catalina Sopelana) shows him kindness and he falls in love with her. His brain chemistry is changing allowing emotions to develop but there is also a tumour in his brain. The killer's lore is examined, how he stalks, hunts, captures. Kills and inters his prey. Making it look as if they have disappeared, drowned, maybe run away. He has conflicts with his mother over Violeta, through flashbacks we see how the accident occurred, what led up to it and years later Elmer's first kill. Violeta has a few secrets of her own which led to her becoming a target. A love story as well as a mystery with elements of horror and competing demands. Two bumbling, meddling but persistent cops also get involved. Deliciously dark, I'm surprised the garden didn't have Triffids. Six episodes on Netflix. Created by Miguel Saez Carral, Written by Saez Carral and Isa Sanchez, and Directed by Mikel Rueda and Rafa Montesinos. 8/10.

The gardener. In europe, it's el jardinero. From spain. Only six episodes. A mother ( cecilia suárez ) and son ( álvaro rico ) team of assassins. But while elmer has an odd, strong connection with nature, he has lost his sense of emotions with people. A perfect trait for a killer! When they bury the bodies in their own yard, the plants and trees seem to thrive even more. Elmer and mom are saving up to buy a house far away, where they can leave all this behind. Officers torres and carrera are surprised that they never find the bodies of the missing people. A new job brings a new twist... the next target has already fallen for elmer. Can he carry out the job? If he goes through with it, will the coppers trace the murder back to elmer and his mother? Things begin to unravel. Things are not going according to plan anymore. The casting is good, the english dubbing is excellent. It probably didn't need to be six episodes.... the coppers took a LONG time to start linking the murders. But overall, it's good! Another good miniseries from netflix. And the writers have left it wide open for a season two! But no announcements yet, if there will be more episodes. Directed by rafa montesinos and mikel rueda.