Walter Jon Williams: Reviews Too Late: Money Heist http:/...

Walter Jon Williams: Reviews Too Late: Money Heist http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2019/10/reviews-too-late-money-heist/: 'While recovering from surgery I binged, mainly continuing my exploration of Spanish TV with��Money Heist (Casa de Papel, ���House of Paper���) ��I do like an intricate caper, as my Maijstral books demonstrate, and this is probably the longest caper ever filmed, something like sixteen hours of television originally split into two seasons. ��(One crime over two seasons!) ��The series was one of the most-watched in Europe last summer, which attracted the interest of Netflix. ��When Netflix acquired the series it was re-edited into 22 episodes, and two more seasons were filmed. ��(I���m halfway through Season Three, and Season Four has yet to be released.) So, whatta we got here? ��Master criminal El Professor (��lvaro Morte) recruits a group of criminal specialists to take over the Spanish mint, run off a couple billion euros over a week���s time, and cleverly vanish along with the cash. ��To preserve anonymity, each of the team adopts the pseudonym of a city, and the tale is narrated by Tokyo, a young woman with a history of robbing banks, and who recently watched her boyfriend gunned down when a heist she planned went terribly wrong. ��Tokyo isn���t an unreliable narrator, exactly, but she���s an unreliable human being, prone to making an impulsive grand gesture at exactly the wrong moment. And in fact El Professor turns out to have made quite a number of mistakes in casting his crime...

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