The series about a group of officials from the National Intelligence Center, the CNI, raises several questions: firstly, it deals with a traditionally opaque sector of the State, which we assume is as it should be. After all, we are talking about secret services. Secondly, the ignorance of the undersigned is demonstrated by not knowing the majority of its actors, with exceptions such as the wonderful Juan Diego Botto and Tristán Ulloa, solid in their performances and very well supported by Elena Martín Gimeno, Elisabet Casanovas, Israel Elejalde and Clara Segura, among others. Thirdly, that the six-episode series in its first season and shown by Movistar Plus+, created by David Moreno and directed by David Ulloa, does not avoid the internal scandal with the betrayal of one of its employees when selling valuable information to a foreign power, Russia in this case, which speaks to us of a certain institutional honesty, since The Center It was devised with the help of the CNI itself.
The uncomfortable reality and, naturally, Wikipedia, remind us of other notorious scandals of the aforementioned Center such as the Pegasus case: spying on multiple mobile phones, including those of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Defense, as well as independence leaders, through the software Pegasus spy created in Israel, espionage that in some cases had judicial authorization and in others not. “Now yes, now no”, as the classic would say. Of course, if we cite classics, we must mention The irrigator watered, since the spied Margarita Robles, head of Defense, was directly responsible for the CNI. In summary, The Center is a remarkable series about an unknown world.
And if not completely unknown, at least infrequent in fiction series is the one shown in the second season of , the Portuguese series written and co-directed by Augusto Fraga located in the Azores islands, and more specifically in San Miguel, the largest of them, in which drugs, their trafficking, consumption and sale is the driving force of the action of a small group of island friends who, naturally, will be pursued by more professional gangsters eager for . Its director defines it as “a story about friendship in the middle of a storm,” and that is exactly what it is.
