Review Rating: 6/10
Well, don't worry. The five season Money Heist — part 5 of the vocabulary of Netflix — was separated into two volumes for maximum spectacle. On Friday, 3 September, the five episodes debuted in Vol. 1, but on 3 December, Netflix will publish the last 5 episodes in Vol. 2. This is a lengthy farewell to the gorgeous band of flawless thieves—a Spanish farewell.
The whole phenomena of La Casa de Pap took me completely by surprise as a Spaniard who has been calling the US home for 15 years. How could such a worldwide appeal be made to something as distinctly Spanish as the comedy and the personalities shown? In their first four weeks of release last year, a record 65 million homes saw Money Heist Part 4. And the show ranks second in a ranking released by the streamer in early 2021 among the Top 5 most viewed by Netflix.
I've assumed that the show clicks for audiences all around the world has to be precisely its idiosyncratic nature. Who can also resist a robbery notion that cannot just be swept away but is struck by certain melodrama, several prospective romantic interests, cutting comedy and also a few unrelenting antagonists?
In Part 5, the creator Álex Pina from Money Heist and his crew reiterate part of the format which has provided many crooked audiences since the 2017 Netflix show's premiere. The season starts directly after the end of Part 4: The heist mastermind El Professor (Álvaro Morte) has been located in Sierra, Najwa Nimri, and his plot to take the gold from within the Bank is being thwarted. Lisboa was released from the hands of police and put in the bank successfully while the rest of the red-covered thieves were inside for 100 hours. By the moment, things grow tenser. And, unfortunately, Nairobi is still a lifeless place (Alba Flores).
From Heist to War Show Melodrama
Vol.1 was the only episodes to be reviewed in the first two that presented a strong structure contrast. The first is a continual back-and-forward story from several perspectives: the hiding of El Professor within the bank, the temporary tent of the police outside of Spain and a red Volvo bandwagon about the nineties which made it possible to leave Marseilles (Luka Pero).
Then the planning of the host is reflected, with lines of speech, that inform the turns and turns in real time. And a little more of four years ago where Berlin (Pedro Alonso) tried to enroll his son Rafael (Patrick Criado), who was an electrical engineer with a post-graduate degree in cyber security at MIT. In the early days of her thieving, we even hear about the passed Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó) and see her.
Nonlinear storyline was a crucial to the exciting quality of the show from its premiere. Yet Part 5 of Episode 2 shifts to chronological narrative and we have remained in this present for a total of 52 minutes for some strange reason. This is not the only difficult turn in the series.
"War is reaching its ultra-highest and wildest level, but it is also the most dramatic and thrilling season." And one word in particular has a difficulty for me: war.
Indeed, the combat levels up to now are warlike. For many years, I have been preventing film or TV programme (web series) pictures depicting arms while choosing photos from my items but have not been able to discover any firearms from Part 5 of Money Heist that are available.
The point is, I like clever stories. I dig. I don't really care about imaginary conflicts, however, and I'm concerned what Money Heist may become into in the future. In a sense, it appears that in its last season the web series may have altered the genres and all became brawny and not cerebral.
Was Money Heist 5th part necessary for the storyline?
Part 2 of Money Robbery concluded with the band successfully completing their first heist. But I was glad to see them reassemble for an impossible and ridiculous new goal. But the current heist is being told across three seasons, and I'm seeing signs of a stretched-out plot forming, especially for a vertiginous series where the stakes couldn't be greater most of the time.
Some of the events in Part 5's episodes 1 and 2 constitute season finale material. Nonetheless, the series has eight more episodes until it concludes. The introduction of fresh antagonists is one of the techniques Money Heist's crew has discovered to continually increasing the ante. And the primary enemy this season is Army Commander Sagasta (José Manuel Seda). You'll meet him for the first time when he's pooping - Spaniards have a penchant for scatological comedy — but he's bad news for the gang.
The only reason I'm not giving this season a lower grade is that I don't think I've watched enough of it, and I'm hoping that some of the seeds sown in seasons three and four will bear fruit. Characters such as Tatiana (Diana Gómez) and even newcomers such as Rafael or Tokyo’s old boyfriend René (Miguel ngel Silvestre) might play key roles. The ensemble is so large that I'm hoping the web series will take a break and focus more on the melodramatic parts of these people's lives this season. Because no one is completely dead in La Casa de Papel, I'm eager to see which departed characters will appear in flashbacks.
Furthermore, the web series is still a lot of fun to watch. Sierra and Tamayo (Fernando Cayo) are my two favorite characters this season; they have some of the greatest and most politically incorrect lines, and they deliver them with enthusiasm. So, if you want to watch La Casa de Papel only to see Tamayo's highly HR-problematic tirades in front of his employees, you won't be disappointed.
As with Lupin, I recommend watching La Casa de Papel in its original version with subtitles. Only in this manner will you be able to properly appreciate the programme and notice the almost ASMR-like quality of some of the performers' voices.
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