Some guy (Alex) leaves jail and sets up some high tech operation evidently intent on surveillance and revenge. Turns out that in his teens, he, his sister (Sara) and their friends are about to try parasailing for the first time. The girl insists she wants to be the first. Her parachute harness starts tearing and she falls and dies. Turns out that Alex and Sara are lower class while their friends (2 brothers, and some others) are filthy rich. They are at the brothers' vacation house when all this happens. The rich dad is a major league ahole and talks Alex into taking the blame for Sara's death. That's how he ended up in jail.
Alex is convinced there was foul play so his mission now is to find out who killed Sara and why and avenge her death. So we have these two time periods then. The teenage years and the adult years and the episodes jump back and forth--over time more and more frenetically so that in season 3 it's hard to tell when something happened. He targets the rich family and finds out plenty of dirt on the father, the mother, the two brothers. They also have a younger sister and he ends up hooking up with her and she actually helps him out. Someone else makes contact, some anonymous person over the internet who offers help.
The investigation into the who takes up 2 seasons. In season 1 there's plenty of deception and one quickly notices a pattern. New characters are introduced or we learn more about a character and find out he/she had reasons to kill Sara. So it turns out that everyone wanted Sara and then wanted her dead and had the means and the opportunity to do it. Problem is that Sara is an unattractive, unremarkable, uninteresting girl so it makes no sense why everyone is obsessed with her. But she was the only girl in the group for some reason.
In season 2 we learn a lot more about Sara herself so she does in some way start becoming a more interesting character. After learning who killed Sara, Season 3 is all about explaining the why and there's off course a few twists here and there. The show takes an unexpected turn as Jean Reno's character becomes really the prominent character here.
The ending is somewhat unsatisfying I must say. It would have been better had they done the why and the who in parallel instead of revealing the killer earlier instead of spending a bunch of episodes and explaining the why and the how.
Who Killed Sara? Shines for its outstanding production. Can't say I watch many Spanish-language series, but I was surprised by the quality of the production. Music/sound effects also are first rate. Initially there's plenty of sex and an afwul lot of gay sex. The story, too, overall is very good. Carolina Miranda is beautiful and a bombshell. She stole the show. First time I see Jean Reno in a Spanish-speaking role, but he's excellent. His acting unfortunately makes the rest of the actors look bad. Frankly, I was hoping for and expecting a weird surprise twist ending, given that some of the themes the series touches are pretty twisted but it went for an easy outcome.
Overall, it's a show worth watching. It takes a bit too long to get where it wants to go, since it's really one long 25 episode show and you can't watch the seasons independently from each other.
Alex is convinced there was foul play so his mission now is to find out who killed Sara and why and avenge her death. So we have these two time periods then. The teenage years and the adult years and the episodes jump back and forth--over time more and more frenetically so that in season 3 it's hard to tell when something happened. He targets the rich family and finds out plenty of dirt on the father, the mother, the two brothers. They also have a younger sister and he ends up hooking up with her and she actually helps him out. Someone else makes contact, some anonymous person over the internet who offers help.
The investigation into the who takes up 2 seasons. In season 1 there's plenty of deception and one quickly notices a pattern. New characters are introduced or we learn more about a character and find out he/she had reasons to kill Sara. So it turns out that everyone wanted Sara and then wanted her dead and had the means and the opportunity to do it. Problem is that Sara is an unattractive, unremarkable, uninteresting girl so it makes no sense why everyone is obsessed with her. But she was the only girl in the group for some reason.
In season 2 we learn a lot more about Sara herself so she does in some way start becoming a more interesting character. After learning who killed Sara, Season 3 is all about explaining the why and there's off course a few twists here and there. The show takes an unexpected turn as Jean Reno's character becomes really the prominent character here.
The ending is somewhat unsatisfying I must say. It would have been better had they done the why and the who in parallel instead of revealing the killer earlier instead of spending a bunch of episodes and explaining the why and the how.
Who Killed Sara? Shines for its outstanding production. Can't say I watch many Spanish-language series, but I was surprised by the quality of the production. Music/sound effects also are first rate. Initially there's plenty of sex and an afwul lot of gay sex. The story, too, overall is very good. Carolina Miranda is beautiful and a bombshell. She stole the show. First time I see Jean Reno in a Spanish-speaking role, but he's excellent. His acting unfortunately makes the rest of the actors look bad. Frankly, I was hoping for and expecting a weird surprise twist ending, given that some of the themes the series touches are pretty twisted but it went for an easy outcome.
Overall, it's a show worth watching. It takes a bit too long to get where it wants to go, since it's really one long 25 episode show and you can't watch the seasons independently from each other.