La Casa de Papel (Money Heist)

[cranefly]

Finished S2.  That first heist finally wraps up.  There were implausibilities along the way, such as removing intact bullets from people, and taking control of a situation by pointing a gun in someone's face at pointblank range (No, you've just made it a game of reflexes, essentially a jump ball), or the ever-popular Mexican stand-off, or like I said earlier, the good-cop/bad-cop routine in the interrogation room that shouldn't work, and guns that, in a pitched battle, seldom run out of bullets, and so forth.  Still, the sheer number of clever and believable ruses on both sides continued to grow and overall won me over.  And it stayed clever and intense to the very end -- i.e., a well-funded production.  Wow.  Who'da thought you could make a series with all smart, if flawed, people.  Kudos on almost every level.

I need a break before deciding if I'm going to jump into S3.  It's definitely a diverse and interesting cast of characters, with great acting.  So I'll likely be back.