O Assassino do Baralho

2003, Madrid, a killer leaves a calling card at the crime scene, a playing card.

It's a fascinating case, a series of brutal murders, a case that led to a media frenzy and a wave of public fear. It's a very bizarre story, with some surprising revelations.

After episodes one and two, I was set to roast this series, but episode three however is something of a turnaround, and serves as a very interesting, pretty satisfying conclusion.

It's in its natural Spanish, so if you're lucky enough to speak some, you'll have a better time of it, the dubbing jars at times.

Lots of interesting footage, but there's just too much of it, you will feel bombarded.

At three episodes, it's too long, this should have been a ninety minute one off production, episodes one and two are heavily padded out, and both seem over produced.

The interviews are very short, so for the casual viewer it seems to jump rapidly from one scene to the next, it's a frantic pace, it would have worked so much better if they'd just toned it down a few notches.

6/10.

I rarely rate anything on Netflix but just finished watching this show and had to share some comments. An interesting story but could have been only 2 episodes. It went on and on, with multiple persons saying the say thing over and over again. Very repetitious. It seems too many people such as the journalists and conspiracy theorists simply wanted the spotlight in this case and tried to make themselves much more relevant and important to the case than they really were. Much of what they said was not helpful to the story, nor worth repeating over and over again-such as I am doing. I think you get the point..