Well I have watched the first episode of Paraíso called "El incendio" (The fire) and I found it rather slow going. And the character Javi seems to always have the same angry/sad/confused look on his face for most of the episode.
Five minutes in, there is a scene in a school hallway involving students and a memorial type setup beside one wall. On the wall are the words "Estan muertas o comiendo" but there is no mention of what this means in the English subtitles. And I do not speak Spanish.
So I paused the episode and typed the words into a translation service to get a meaning (Are they dead or eating). Yes it's a minor thing, but it helps with understanding the scene and any message.
The main issue I have with the English subtitles is that in places they flash on the screen and then disappear so quick that I didn't get a chance to read them so this means I have to skip back a few seconds to read them and/or pause, which of course breaks up the flow of the scene :( Including three music symbols - (this IMDB submission contains the following invalid characters) - in the English subtitles constantly did get a bit annoying.
Also annoying was the background music: eerie and sombre in some places was ok, but I felt there was to much of it. And the constant cuts from one scene with people in it to a different scene - with different people in it - and then back again, was very distracting.
I quickly spotted moments very similar to Stranger Things (an example at 19:28) being a scene where Javi is riding at night - on his red lowrider-bicycle with a banana-seat and single dynamo powered front bike light.
The last ten minutes of the episode are the best (the fire in the Paraíso nightclub) but it made me sad to see a mirror ball burning on the floor and then lots of lights and truss on fire. The outside scene a few minutes later was a great twist though!
At 58:35 you get a glimpse of the right wrist of "Lieutenant Zhou, Central Unit." WALKING towards the camera. His wrist shows a tattoo of what looks like three propeller blades within a small circle. The problem is Lieutenant Zhou supposedly got a double barrel shotgun blast TO THE HEAD a few moments ago! Yep I paused the episode, and at 58:02 "Don't move or I'll shoot your brains out!" - a flame at the end of the barrels can be seen - with a large dark red splotch on Lieutenant Zhou's forehead in the very next frame.
Stranger Things indeed...
Five minutes in, there is a scene in a school hallway involving students and a memorial type setup beside one wall. On the wall are the words "Estan muertas o comiendo" but there is no mention of what this means in the English subtitles. And I do not speak Spanish.
So I paused the episode and typed the words into a translation service to get a meaning (Are they dead or eating). Yes it's a minor thing, but it helps with understanding the scene and any message.
The main issue I have with the English subtitles is that in places they flash on the screen and then disappear so quick that I didn't get a chance to read them so this means I have to skip back a few seconds to read them and/or pause, which of course breaks up the flow of the scene :( Including three music symbols - (this IMDB submission contains the following invalid characters) - in the English subtitles constantly did get a bit annoying.
Also annoying was the background music: eerie and sombre in some places was ok, but I felt there was to much of it. And the constant cuts from one scene with people in it to a different scene - with different people in it - and then back again, was very distracting.
I quickly spotted moments very similar to Stranger Things (an example at 19:28) being a scene where Javi is riding at night - on his red lowrider-bicycle with a banana-seat and single dynamo powered front bike light.
The last ten minutes of the episode are the best (the fire in the Paraíso nightclub) but it made me sad to see a mirror ball burning on the floor and then lots of lights and truss on fire. The outside scene a few minutes later was a great twist though!
At 58:35 you get a glimpse of the right wrist of "Lieutenant Zhou, Central Unit." WALKING towards the camera. His wrist shows a tattoo of what looks like three propeller blades within a small circle. The problem is Lieutenant Zhou supposedly got a double barrel shotgun blast TO THE HEAD a few moments ago! Yep I paused the episode, and at 58:02 "Don't move or I'll shoot your brains out!" - a flame at the end of the barrels can be seen - with a large dark red splotch on Lieutenant Zhou's forehead in the very next frame.
Stranger Things indeed...