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There is a type of series that makes you look at the other with suspicion even when they just ask for salt. Dele & DelaNetflix’s new suspense miniseries, is this invitation to doubt your own shadow or, at least, your favorite television drama. With just six episodes, the production has already become one of the most watched titles on the platform, proving that well-seasoned mystery never goes out of style.
Dele & Dela,/Photo: Reproduction
Based on the novel His & Hers by Alice Feeney, Dele & Dela arrives with the seal of shortened tension: episodes of around 45 minutes that invite you to a weekend marathon. The plot revolves around Anna Andrews (Tessa Thompson), a journalist who returns to her hometown after a brutal murder and soon finds herself at the center of the investigation and in the sights of her detective ex-husband, Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal).
The chemistry between the protagonists creates an interesting narrative engine: two sides of the same story, conflicting versions of truth and a web of secrets that extends throughout the small town. The plot alternates clues and suspicions, leading the viewer to reconsider everything they believed they knew in each episode.
Anna Andrews (Tessa Thompson) and Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal)/ Photo: Reproduction
The pace is agile, almost like a streaming fever and the twists are present all the time. This, for many, is the series’ greatest strength: the constant desire for “just one more episode”. But this model also brings two sides to the coin: while some praise the well-sewn suspense and bingeability, others criticize the sometimes superficial character construction and plot twists that depend more on shock than on deep logic.
Dele & Dela is not the pinnacle of the television thriller nor the series that will reinvent the genre, but it is exactly this “tasty to devour” nature that makes it a title that worth a marathon. The production balances between the serious and the sensationalist, delivering strong performances especially from Thompson. It is a game of versions that changes our perception of what is true and what is a manipulated narrative.
Dele & Dela It is not the pinnacle of the television thriller nor the series that will reinvent the genre, but it is exactly that “tasty to devour” nature /Photo: Reproduction
The irony? In a story about distrust, whoever we most distrust in the end could be ourselves, after allwe are always looking for meaning in the narrative chaos, as if this makes us better detectives of our own lives.
In the end, Dele & Dela it works like a mirror of the world we live in: full of conflicting versions, where each character takes on a role and challenges our trust. If you like series that leave you thinking even after the credits, this could be a good bet for your next marathon.
Fhagner Soares, cinema from another perspective.
