La barriera

I watched this because I really enjoyed Ministerio Del Tiempo. Unlike Ministerio, The Barrier, often indulges in TV Novela-like melodramatic overacting. I figure one's ability to tolerate this depends on how many hours of TV Novelas one's abuelita subjected him or her to. If you can muscle or fast forward through the overacted parts it's a good show.

Another "coincidentally" eerie pandemic show. Here it's 2045 and society has fallen because of a lingering deadly virus. Martial law is in effect but of course those mostly inconvenienced are the poor. The wealthy make the laws and live as they please. Nobody can be trusted. The usual stuff. Shades of Colony and The Handmaid's Tale. Right down to the little kid the acting is very good.

To the near future, a virus strikes upon the world and a regime takes control A husband loses his wife and separated from his daughter The struggle is about to escalate

Anyone living in 2020 should not have much trouble envisioning just how humanity got to this post apocalyptic future, complete with virus and totalitarian woke-tocarcy.

I really want to like this series, the plot is interesting, and quite original. But the cast is just frustrating, or more likely the directions they are given. Constantly over acting on the side of melodrama in almost ridiculous ways. Any normal person would keep a low profile in dangerous situations, but here they throw fits, scream and yell for no good reason, seemingly totally unaware of how much attention they are attracting. It's like these guys have survived hard conditions, but somehow managed to gather exactly zero street smartness. In a society with a strong class system, you can't just ignore your superiors, or challenge them any time you disagree with them, Not that I think it is the right thing to do on a general level, but being constantly melodramatic, is probably not gonna get you far when you live in a police state. Had this been real I doubt many of them would have survived up to the point where the story takes place. What a shame.