Just finished "I know who you are," a Spanish crime drama where pretty much everyone is such a jerk that you don't care what happens to anybody, but when some of them are bumped off, you cheer because their character was just so annoying. Being smart and pragmatic seems to win over justice and doing the right thing. There was a super irritating repetitive theme tune that just wouldn't stop. Kind of like a bad toothache. Plus, like Gran Hotel, everybody slaps everybody every few minutes. Spain, a slap happy country.
We are also watching a show that we like to call "lady Pathologist" but known as "Night and Day" (Nit i Dia) a Catalonian series with a forensic pathologist who is married to a Type A businessman (jerk). She picks guys up in bars. Why? Well, she's married to a jerk. But maybe she just likes casual sex. Who knows? At any rate, she's actually pretty funny and smart. There are some sympathetic characters and a strange serial killer who has a day job as a fireman. Compared to "I know who you are," this is a real feel good series with some likable characters with just a reasonable sprinkling of jerks and or bad guys. I spent a short time in Barcelona (where this takes place) and it's odd to get used to people speaking Catalan after listening to all the jerks in the above mentioned series speaking Castillian. Last time I was in Barcelona, it was a sleepy run down kind of place with a real charm. Now it's clear that lots of money cascaded into the place after Spain joined the EU and it's got its own Gherkin. Things really have changed. Anyway. "Nit i Dia" is a whole lot better than "I know who you are."
