The series starring Alberto Ammann and Luis Callejo is available on Netflix from Friday.
There are spoilers for ‘The Longest Night’ in the following article.
This past Friday the new feat within the Spanish production was released among the Netflix series. ‘The longest night’, a sign that the Hollywood industry stopped having complexes a long time ago and that here too there is room for action and suspense.
Let’s review what the new series brings us. It is the night of the night of December 24. A group of assailants enters a prison with the intention of taking a prisoner who has just arrived at said prison. It is Simón Lago (Luis Callejo) a dangerous serial killer. If he is handed over, the assault will be over in a matter of minutes. However Hugh (Albert Ammann), the director of the prison, refuses to succumb to such blackmail and prepares to resist the attack. His reaction will be played out in the six frenetic episodes that make up the series. The new Netflix series has left us several open frontsand therefore looking forward to much more in the second season.
There will be no peace for the prisoners
The Monte Baruca prison has been shaken by a gale on the night of the year famous for being Silent Night. Precisely all series of mishaps antagonistic to that word will happen. In the last section, Hugo has tried to drive away the assailants with a car. Desperate, the prison director has put the car in gear in the middle of a brawl to drive away the rescue group, or avoid more danger. But nothing seems close to normal anymore. Sara (Laia Manzanares), belonging to the group of assailants, seems to want to go on her own.
On the other hand, Cherokee (Daniel Albaladejo) had prepared an escape and sees that this is the moment to do it.. He is joined by Manuela (Cecilia Freire), Javi (David Solans) or Nuria (Lucía Díez) among others. This group will see their plan thwarted by a firefight caused by the assailants. Some manage to escape, and the last thing we know is that they run into Espada (Adolfo Fernández). Cherokee and Nuria stay with the group that the men have taken hostage.
What happen with the kids?
Laura, Hugo’s eldest daughter, has stayed in the house of her kidnappers. He looks like he has suffered a seizure. Rosa and her husband are desperate because someone took her daughter Valentina and they are between a rock and a hard place, threatened to commit a serious crime in order to save her girl. The camera pans over some photos of a piece of furniture and one of them shows the mysterious character who has pulled all the strings from the outside so that Simón Lago gets out of jail (played by Alejandro Tous), and Hugo himself. What relationship do they all have?
Meanwhile, inside Monte Baruca, Elisa and Hugo’s two young children are saved? by Simón Lago himself, leaving a little more suspense at the end of the chapter. What will happen to them?
Why do they want Simon?
Lennon and Hugo have a meeting on the roof. The leader of the group of men who has entered the prison tells him that if he had told him something about plan B, the kidnapping of his eldest daughter, everything would have been easier. Without reaching an understanding, Hugo is left without knowing, for the moment, why they want to prevent Simón from talking to the judge, the big question of the series. The police are approaching, so it is now Hugo who is in control of the situation. So he asks Ruso (Roberto Álamo) to close the module. After, Lennon comments that nobody knew that he was going to transfer Simón to Baruca, with what seems that the serial killer is being helped by someone inside. (and has carried out the kidnapping of Laura on the other hand).
And so we are left, before the aerial shot of the prison with the sirens of the police cars in the background, with a thousand questions to seek answers to.
Who is Simon?
It is the greatest enigma of this story. Callejo plays one of the most outstanding roles of his career with this unscrupulous criminal. But despite some flashbacks and that brief introduction, this character is generating a lot of curiosity. What do those powerful men want him for? What do they want to hide?
Source: Fotogramas
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