{"id":203347,"date":"2021-03-16T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-netflix-drama-series-sky-rojo-delivers-pulpy-thrills\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:16:57","slug":"the-netflix-drama-series-sky-rojo-delivers-pulpy-thrills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-netflix-drama-series-sky-rojo-delivers-pulpy-thrills\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Netflix Drama Series &#8216;Sky Rojo&#8217; Delivers Pulpy Thrills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Netflix Drama <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> &#8216;Sky Rojo&#8217; Delivers Pulpy Thrills<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>Up Next<\/strong>, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Sky Rojo, the latest thriller by the team behind Netflix\u2019s international mega-hit Money Heist.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>In 2017, Netflix dropped the first season of the Spanish heist thriller series <em>Money Heist<\/em> (a.k.a. <em>La Casa de Papel<\/em>) to little fanfare. A few years later, it had become one of the streaming giant\u2019s biggest hits to date, breaking the record for the most-watched non-English language series with its third season. Now, <em>Money Heist<\/em> creator <strong>\u00c1lex Pina<\/strong> and writer <strong>Esther Mart\u00ednez Lobato<\/strong> are back with <em><strong>Sky Rojo<\/strong><\/em>, a Netflix original series that has all the fixings required to become a flashy but flawed success.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky Rojo<\/em> follows a trio of sex workers who must flee the club where they\u2019re forced to work after an altercation gone wrong ends with their pimp bleeding out on the floor. It\u2019s worth mentioning early on that, while the series describes these women as prostitutes, some are actually human trafficking victims, and all three are mostly disgusted by their line of work. Anyone looking for a positive portrayal of consenting sex workers will have to look elsewhere, as <em>Sky Rojo<\/em> is firmly entrenched in the exploitative and violent side of Spain\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euroweeklynews.com\/2020\/04\/05\/spains-sex-workers-out-on-their-own-as-the-e24-5-billion-industry-shuts-down-amid-pandemic\/\">multi-billion dollar trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their brutal situation, the three women are close-knit friends. The leader of the group is pill-popping Coral (<strong>Ver\u00f3nica S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>), the series\u2019 mysterious protagonist who came to the club after a past life as a housewife and biologist. She\u2019s joined by wide-eyed, optimistic Cuban trafficking victim Gina (<strong>Yany Prado<\/strong>), as well as Wendy (<strong>Lali Esp\u00f3sito<\/strong>), who left Argentina in hopes of making enough money to start a better life. Viewers meet the three just moments before the act of violence that will change the course of their destinies, an altercation with club owner and pimp Romeo (<strong>Asier Etxeandia<\/strong>). Soon, they are on the run, and their backstories are slowly revealed as they\u2019re chased cross-country by two vicious henchmen brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Pina\u2019s previous Netflix hit took obvious cues from films like Quentin Tarantino\u2019s <em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em>, and with its trio of beautiful women being hunted on the road, <em>Sky Rojo<\/em> bears a passing resemblance to another of that director\u2019s films,<em> Death Proof<\/em>. Although its neo-exploitation influences are clear in everything from its leads\u2019 sequin-studded miniskirts to its in-your-face shiny chrome logo, <em>Sky Rojo<\/em> is its own beast. The series features a unique blend of dark humor, serious violence, and heightened drama that its creators have called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/about.netflix.com\/en\/news\/netflix-to-release-sky-rojo-on-march-19\">Latin pulp<\/a>.\u201d So far, it\u2019s neither as deep nor as clever as it thinks it is, but the thriller seems more concerned with being addictive than being perfect, and on that front, it succeeds. <em>Sky Rojo<\/em> is packed with twists that come at viewers a-mile-a-minute, and with only half of its eight-episode run available to screen for review, it likely has some closely-guarded surprises up its sleeve.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky Rojo<\/em>\u2019s greatest strengths are its leads. S\u00e1nchez plays Coral as a sexy mess with hidden strengths that have yet to be revealed; she often calls to mind Mary-Louise Parker\u2019s performance as a housewife-turned-drug-dealer on the series <em>Weeds<\/em>. Esp\u00f3sito\u2019s Wendy is a firecracker, quickest to anger but also fast to show affection. Prado is the most obvious revelation, sensitive and endearing as young Gina. In a flashback, Romeo casts all three characters in the fantasy brothel roles he thinks fit them. \u201dAbove all, a pimp is a psychologist,\u201d he says, dripping with narcissism and misogyny. It\u2019s clear early on that the women are much more than the controlled roles they\u2019ve been cast in, and they recognize the complexity in one another even if no one else does. However much they must endure \u2014 and in the tradition of pulp fiction, it\u2019s certainly a lot \u2014 they find deep wells of resilience in one another. The three lead actresses form a solid foundation on which to build a series, and their characters, whose backstories are doled out in deliberate small increments, have plenty of room to grow in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, not every character in <em>Sky Rojo<\/em> is as engaging as the core group. The criminal brothers tasked with recovering the women \u2014 hothead junkie Christian (<strong>Enric Auquer<\/strong>) and secretly sensitive Mois\u00e9s (<strong>Miguel \u00c1ngel Silvestre<\/strong>) \u2014 are given an obnoxious amount of screen time. Between burying bodies in the desert and tracking the runaway womens\u2019 phones, the two goons bicker about the best way to care for their aging mother and talk begrudgingly about their feelings. These moments seem like crude attempts to humanize the villains, either for the sake of adding to the series\u2019 mostly-successful streak of dark humor or because we\u2019re actually meant to empathize with two torturers. Either way, their frequent scenes are repetitive, unfocused, and not nearly as engaging as anything involving the women they\u2019re after.<\/p>\n<p>Like any modern work that takes its cue from exploitation and pulp, <em>Sky Rojo<\/em> is bound to court controversy and get people talking. Yet with a great core cast and a fast-paced, twisty plot, it\u2019s an entertaining series that has the potential to become more than just a cheap thrill.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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This week,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Sky Rojo, the latest thriller by the team behind Netflix\u2019s international mega-hit Money Heist. 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