I did enjoy this series, more being Argentinean, you appreciate little details that might get lost depending on the culture you come from.
The story is good, the first episode gives you a good base and you know what's going to be happening through the story. Not that it's predictable, but the structure is quite simple and doesn't break through the 10 episodes, each one, the concierge tries to convince one of the inhabitants of the building to his favour (you'll see what is it exactly he wants to convince them about in the first episode, but no need to mention it here), and that doesn't change throughout, giving a sense of simplicity in the writing that adds up negatively. From the beginning (and maybe because of my high expectations generated by the hype in Argentina) I felt like the characters and writing was trying to be smarter than it is, the manipulative actions of the concierge aren't as complex, clever or sometimes realistic as I was expecting, and I felt disappointed a few times.
The character is quite ambiguous, even if he does clearly wrong things throughout the show, he also shows a very kind human aspect at times, so by the end I didn't really know if to root for him or not. I guess that's the point, but by the end I was left with an inconsistent feeling, a bittersweet taste of satisfaction mixed with confusion. Not saying that the story doesn't make sense, or that I need "the good ones to win" or "the bad ones to be punished", I really dislike those clichés, but here's just a feeling difficult to point at and explain.
Performances are good through, I don't remember anyone not delivering their role accordingly, but nothing exceptional neither. Thinking of it, it seems that the direction failed to a good idea with a good casting, not terribly but not achieving its full potential.
The technical aspect is quite average, the cinematography is a very wasted opportunity here, it could definitely have use a better use of the colour palette, extreme angles to create emotion, and a more artistic, cinematographic look overall, but it's really average. I've see way better in Argentinean cinema, I thought it was a standard by now.
In the positive side, Francella, even if this is not his finest, always gives an entertaining (at least) performance, and the show has a good pace, a short episode run, so it's not boring at all and kept me intrigued on how it'd develop.
I have to say, I enjoyed the show, it's a decent one, but I feel a bit underwhelmed by the disappointment of such a hype and the potential it had on the premise and casting.
The story is good, the first episode gives you a good base and you know what's going to be happening through the story. Not that it's predictable, but the structure is quite simple and doesn't break through the 10 episodes, each one, the concierge tries to convince one of the inhabitants of the building to his favour (you'll see what is it exactly he wants to convince them about in the first episode, but no need to mention it here), and that doesn't change throughout, giving a sense of simplicity in the writing that adds up negatively. From the beginning (and maybe because of my high expectations generated by the hype in Argentina) I felt like the characters and writing was trying to be smarter than it is, the manipulative actions of the concierge aren't as complex, clever or sometimes realistic as I was expecting, and I felt disappointed a few times.
The character is quite ambiguous, even if he does clearly wrong things throughout the show, he also shows a very kind human aspect at times, so by the end I didn't really know if to root for him or not. I guess that's the point, but by the end I was left with an inconsistent feeling, a bittersweet taste of satisfaction mixed with confusion. Not saying that the story doesn't make sense, or that I need "the good ones to win" or "the bad ones to be punished", I really dislike those clichés, but here's just a feeling difficult to point at and explain.
Performances are good through, I don't remember anyone not delivering their role accordingly, but nothing exceptional neither. Thinking of it, it seems that the direction failed to a good idea with a good casting, not terribly but not achieving its full potential.
The technical aspect is quite average, the cinematography is a very wasted opportunity here, it could definitely have use a better use of the colour palette, extreme angles to create emotion, and a more artistic, cinematographic look overall, but it's really average. I've see way better in Argentinean cinema, I thought it was a standard by now.
In the positive side, Francella, even if this is not his finest, always gives an entertaining (at least) performance, and the show has a good pace, a short episode run, so it's not boring at all and kept me intrigued on how it'd develop.
I have to say, I enjoyed the show, it's a decent one, but I feel a bit underwhelmed by the disappointment of such a hype and the potential it had on the premise and casting.