La huésped

I didn't understand what the writers were thinking about when they developed this plot.

They're literally laughing at audience, this is just so cringe and exaggerated. Too much drama. I couldn't even watch the end because it was boring and hard to see.

I hope you develop better narrative in the future.

On surface the series has everything thriller needs. You have a couple with past troubles. And both are hiding things. Their teenage child doing stupid teenage stuff. Mysterious person with some hidden connection to the couple showing up and plotting. Sexual tensions. But it somehow fails to turn all of that into something good, or even half decent. First warning sign is the fact that it is 20 episodes long. I know streaming services allow for longer media and what would otherwise be 1 1/2-2 hours movie can now be made into series and explore more, but such shows generally hover around 8, 10 eps max.

So rather than giving us a background it drags plots and scenes on. To make up for it show tries to make everybody so dramatic and overact, end result being boring plot, camera than just lingers on things, long pauses....

avoid.

La Huésped clearly aimed for psychological tension, but what it delivers instead is a masterclass in poor decision-making. The writing seems determined to strip every character of logic, as if intelligence were optional in this universe. It's hard to feel suspense when the plot relies on people acting like they've never encountered a coherent thought in their lives. By the halfway point, you're no longer asking what will happen next; you're asking how much dumber can it get?

Unnecessarily long but most of all, suffers from a plot that gets flat out absurd at some points. The amount of twists and turns that you have to endure seem more in the service of dragging the story out than making it interesting. A simpler, more direct story line would have made things better. The motivations for the character's actions are extremely far-fetched and difficult to imagine, even if you take the short-cut of "she's simply crazy". It's a shame because the acting is pretty good, but without a good story, we're all simply wasting our time.

The characters and every action of them are exaggerated. Many of the scenes are unrealistic and hard to be believed. Sonia is always crying... I just liked the tension from the first episodes but then everything became far-fetched and too long for 20 episodes. The plot is simple but the revenge is twisted.