Patria

This series is a landmark in Television, having as much to say about Northern Ireland and Cataluña as the Basque Countries. It speaks so eloquently about the iniquity of violent separatism that would see countrymen, neighbours, even friends sacrificed to petty vendettas in that precarious slope from idealism to complete moral bankruptcy. The series focuses on senseless death of Txato, a countryman, innocent, brave and beloved. The killing scene is revisited several times but always from different perspectives, always in the rain, but each time shedding just a little more light, in a discovery-trip to a well-reasoned but explosive climax. A production of true genius, a must-watch. Embarrassed to be just the 23nd reviewer here.

I swear I wanted to go to sleep early yesterday... But this series is just too good. It shows that there's always two (ot three, or four...) Sides of a story. It's naked of all the clasdic American ornamentation of drama. Barely any music, just plane great acting and directing. It puts you on the skin of the characters in every second... It should b shown in highschools...

Amazing series on a harrowing subject...the fact that I lived in Bilbao a few years before the central part of the story happens affects me of course, but the acting, the drama and the characters as well as the cinematography is deeply authentic and hugely moving...

To be seen, not just to be read. The novel by Aramburu is a masterpiece and this serie achives to show it on the screen. The atmosphere is exactly what it needs to be. The elements of the rain, the moving camera, the faces. Everything is well made.

But above all else, what is important is the story. I won't tell anything about it, just that shows the terror of ETA, that hideous gangs of murderers that called themselves liberators and democrats. This is something that we, as a country, cannot forget. We can have different opinions on politics or which is really our nation. I don't care, we can't forget who was and is to blame. Remember always that nationalism is a cancer, specially the violent one.

I whish a lot of people see this in other countries and know the reality of this so called "conflict".

It begins slow... but later takes off and gets deeper. I guess the book is better, but the miniseries does not disappoint; I must confess it gets to my nerves how this violent act happens. The consequences. Anyway, I strongly recommend the series and implore patience to let the story to be developed at its pace.