#like when they first started filming la casa de papel (money heist. good show)

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Where did you watch Tesis? I can't seem to find it anywhere and I typically avoid pirating due to paranoia but it intrigues me so I'd consider pirating it

I'm glad I convinced you to watch tesis bc of Chema (literally look at his face!!!). At least here in Spain it's available on Netflix and then some other platforms (but you have to pay. I wouldn't tbh.)

I've been scouring the Earth and couldn't really find anything tho :( BUT i found this: https://ok.ru/video/6115372305099 And I really really don't know where to find it with subs :((

If you have access to a vpn and a netflix subscription, then i recommend trying a spanish account (i don't know if latin america has access to it, it would be interesting to hear about it!)

It's really weird it's not more accessible, some consider it a Fundamental movie in our cinematography. much to think about.

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Bernardeschi: Little by little we were losing our values. This is a wake-up call

Federico Bernardeschi is sitting on his balcony in Turin. The sun is shining. “It’s 20 degrees,” he says. One of his bulldogs, Spike, barks in the background. The 26-year-old politely introduces us over our video call and gives the pooch a pat on the head. “He’s got a ball now. He’s happy.”

It’s a picture of normal life in abnormal circumstances. As of the weekend, there have been almost 200,000 cases of COVID-19 in Italy. Bernardeschi’s Juventus team-mates Daniele Rugani, Paulo Dybala and Blaise Matuidi all tested positive. But the country is turning a corner and after nearly two months of lockdown, the government has announced it will begin lifting some restrictions next week.

The crisis has left a profound impression on Bernardeschi, who remains in self-isolation but doesn’t live in a bubble. “Every morning at 8:30, I turn on the news. It’s the first thing I do,” the winger tells The Athletic. “Information is really important. You have to be aware of what’s going on around you and I always hold out hope there’ll be some good news when maybe yesterday, there wasn’t any. Gradually, we’re coming through the other side of it but we’re still in for the long haul.”

The Athletic is talking to Bernardeschi on April 25 — Liberation Day in Italy, commemorating the victory of the resistance at the end of World War II. Later in the afternoon, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella cut a lonely but dignified figure walking down the steps of the Vittoriano monument in Rome in a protective mask after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. At the same ceremony a year ago, he called the liberation Italy’s second Risorgimento (Resurgence) after the unification of the states into one country in 1861. Freedom from COVID-19 could yet be its third.

“I get goosebumps talking about the doctors and nurses, and everyone who is risking their lives to help their neighbour,” Bernardeschi, who has scored four goals in 24 appearances for the national team, says. “I have to say what our healthcare workers have done and continue to do is a miracle of humankind.”

Bernardeschi donated €50,000 to the Gradenigo hospital in Turin and raised another €80,000 through GoFundMe for eight sub-intensive care beds and other necessary equipment. Perplexingly, having a social conscience is something Bernardeschi and former Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio have been criticised for in some quarters. They have been called “buonista” — virtue-signalling, politically correct do-gooders — by an element of Juventus’s ultras, who seem to have a problem with them using their platforms to shine a light on a variety of different social issues, not to mention calling out anti-immigration rhetoric.

“When someone, as you say, calls me ‘buonista’, for me, it’s a compliment,” Bernardeschi insists. “The world today needs more humanity and less selfishness when it comes to all the choices and big decisions we make at government and political level. Right now, we should be thinking about the families going through hard times rather than just looking at our own backyard. I hope this situation makes us understand that.”

The economic repercussions of the pandemic are placing ordinary households under tremendous stress and strain. Some are struggling to put food on the table and the footage from supermarkets of customers breaking down in tears, unable to pay for groceries, moved Bernardeschi. “I was watching a video on my phone with my partner (Veronica) and we both said to each other, ‘Damn, this is a major emergency’. We saw people who were unable do their shopping because they’d run out of money.”

It made Bernardeschi think of Caffe Sospeso, an time-old Neapolitan tradition of paying not for one coffee but two, so someone less fortunate than you can get one on the house. He wondered if the same might be possible in supermarkets — a Spesa Sospeso — whereby customers could make a donation of between €2 and €5 to cover the cost of essential groceries such as pasta, rice, milk and bread for those in need. Carrefour agreed to partner with him, as did Banco Alimentare, a charity that redistributes unsold food to the homeless. They’ll be delivering the Spesa Sospeso to the most vulnerable.

“I know what it means to see your parents struggling because it’s the end of the month and there’s no money left,” says Bernardeschi. “And all the while, they’re still doing everything to help you realise your ambitions and make your dreams come true.”

Bernardeschi became a father in August and one silver lining of lockdown is the time he has got to spend with his daughter, Deva. “I get up, get ready and make breakfast. I pick my baby girl up and get her to help me. I show her everything I’m doing. I’m with her for about an hour and then I do my first training session of the day. I shower, have some lunch and then, from one till six, I’m with her all afternoon. We play and then I put her down for a nap and watch some TV, like La Casa de Papel (Money Heist on Netflix). I started (basketball documentary) The Last Dance.”

Bernardeschi reaches for the guitar, too. “More than playing it, I’d call it plucking at it. I strum. I’m a big AC/DC fan. Back In Black is on the playlist when we run out at the Allianz Stadium. I like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana…” Bernardeschi’s desire to nail Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here on guitar — the Italy international’s favourite song — was probably a bit too ambitious. “I need a teacher,” he says.

Art fascinates him. His former Fiorentina team-mate Manuel Pasqual is a collector and shares former England manager Fabio Capello’s love of Lucio Fontana’s slashed canvases. “Berna” is more a street art kind of guy, though. “Banksy’s a genius,” he says. “Usually, artists only make it big after they die but Banksy’s managed to do it while he’s still alive. He’s famous and yet no one knows who he is. It’s madness. The man’s a genius in art and in marketing.”

At six o’clock, Bernardeschi trains again. Revised government guidelines indicate teams will only return to practice on May 18 and even then, it’s unclear whether group sessions and ball-work will be permitted. For now, the commute to Juventus’ Continassa facility will have to wait. “After the session, we have some dinner together, I put my daughter to bed and we put a film on. We go to bed destroyed. My daughter destroys us,” Bernardeschi laughs. “We’re in bed by 10. Then the morning comes and it starts all over again.”

As Italy’s sports papers speculate about his future with Juventus, Bernardeschi thinks about his daughter’s. Fatherhood has given him a renewed sense of purpose and perspective. “I work today for the world she’ll live in tomorrow. That’s how I think about it,” he says. “Doing something positive for her and every generation that comes after us.”

The pause caused by the pandemic presents a chance to rethink how we behave as a society and what we prioritise. It could serve as a teachable moment. “Little by little, we were losing our values,” Bernardeschi says. “For a long time now, we haven’t respected the environment, we haven’t respected ourselves, we haven’t respected our neighbours. We’ve been selfish. I think this situation will make us reflect on what the world could be like in the future. It’s a wake-up call for everyone. We’re guests on this planet. We have to ensure everything that surrounds us is in harmony with nature.”

Bernardeschi hopes the solidarity and compassion of the last couple of months lasts long after the pandemic is over.

“It was really emotional seeing all of Italy on their balconies at six o’clock singing the national anthem,” he says. “It means we are united as a country, that we’re a beautiful country. I hope that, as soon as this is all over, we can go back to the piazze (squares) and celebrate, sing, shout and rejoice at having got through it all.”

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The Blacklist, the most comprehensive collection of my favorite movies&tv series

It’s not unusual to see actors that played a role in some show you liked playing a role in some other show. But. I never experienced something like with The Blacklist. In it I found so many links to other shows that I love, that I felt the need to make a list of them, because I find it unbelievable. Hope to update the list with season seven! You can read the list after the break - and tell me your links, if you have and  want. ;) Enjoy!

[Several episodes] CSI actors/extra CSI is the first of my favorite shows, the reason for which I started this blog, actually. Many actors of that show joined the cast of TBL. The first that I can remember was, I think, Tom Noonan (in TBL played Stanley R. Kornish, the Stewmaker, in 1x04, while in CSI he played Zephyr in Abracaver 3x05). I made a post on him [here]. He also played a role in X-Files, another one of my favorite shows. Another actors/extra that comes to mind, is Lee Tergesen (in TBL he played the husband of Red’s formed wife in Lord Baltimore 2x01, while in CSI he played the father of a kid who killed his little brother in Compulsion 5x17). BUT, the most important is CSI’s Super Dave, aka David Berman who has his first appearance in TBL in episode The Pharmacis 6x03, and he also acts a super-link-to-CSI scene in General Shiro 6x07, when Ressler asks him if he knows any entomologist [I made a post about that here].

[1x02] First appearance of Parminder Nagra {playing Meera Malik} This post by @addictedtostorytelling showed me that she was also in ER, which I followed for some years, and I have good memories of me and my mom watching and talking about it. 

[1x06]  Symphony No. 7, Mov. II - Beehoven  {Music in background during the chat between Reddington and Ruddigger} This music piece is an important part of one great Italian tv show that I love, La Porta Rossa. In that show this music is used a background music of the final monologues of every episode. You can listen to it here.

[1x07]  Robert Sean Leonard {playing Frederick Barnes} He played Count Claudio in the movie Much Ado About Nothing, my second favorite movie of all times. I think I’ve watched it at least 10-15 times.

[1x15] Max Hastings {the Federal Prosecutor who disappeared 12 years earlier found stumbling along a rural Pennsylvania road at the beginning of the episode} There is just one and only Hastings in my life: the one in David Suchet’s Poirot

[1x16] Berlin is mentioned for the first time. Do I have to say it? There’s just one and only Berlin in my life: the one in Money Heist (La cas de papel - La casa di carta) + Cello Song - The Books Feat. Jose Gonzalez (Cover of Nick Drake) I mean, it’s Nick Drake, for God’s sake. It remembers me my high school so much...

[2x01] Mary-Louise Parker {playing Reddington’s former wife Carla Reddington} She played Ruth Jamison in Fried Green Tomatoes, my very favorite film EVER. Oh, damn, I love that movie! But it’s also so sad, and so I just watched it only 3 or 4 times (but I read the book, though!)

[2x14] First appearance of Lance Henrikson {playing the Major} This is a “distant link” to a show I loved. Lance Henrikson played the main character in the show Millennium, which was created by Chris Carter who is more known as the creator of X-Files. How much I shipped Mulder and Scully at the time!

[3x15] Chris Chalk {playing John Addison} He played Gary Cooper in The Newsroom. [Is Gary Cooper his real name? ~ Rebecca Halliday] There are no words to explain how beautiful, entertaining, intelligent and dramatic The Newsroom is. (And Jeff Daniels is superb in it!)

[4x06] Aram tells Samar that he and his girlfriend binge-watch Stranger Things. It’s Stranger Things. There’s nothing I can add to this.

[4x12] Daniel Davis {playing Baldur Magnusson} To see Niles from The Nanny on TBL was the weirdest thing I have ever seen!

[6x17] John Cullum {playing Ted King, married to Katarina’s mother Virginia} I could not believe my eyes when I saw him talking to Ressler: Holling from Northern Exposure! After seeing him on TBL I started a rewatch of NX from season 1.

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Netflix Watch List—Series

Alternatively: a list to show people when they say there is nothing good on Netflix.

version: March 31, 2018

These are in no particular order. I watched all of these (in completion) myself.

(n) by the title means it is a Netflix original. PN means personal note.

3% (n)

Episode 1 “Chapter 01: Cubes” synopsis: In a grimy near-future, 20-year-olds stream to a sleek testing facility to compete for a spot in an idyllic land known as the Offshore.

Seasons: 1 (2017), season 2 release on April 27

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): Brazilian Portuguese (original), English, Spanish

Subtitles: Brazilian Portuguese [CC], English, English [CC], Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

PN: This is one of the series I like more on this list. Despite English audio being available, I never once turned it on, but that’s just me.

Sense8 (n)

Episode 1 “Limbic Resonance” synopsis: Eight strangers from cities around the globe begin having experiences that defy explanation.

Seasons: 2, finale in 2018

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original), French, German, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

PN: A really freaking cool series, filmed in multiple locations across the world, with tons of LGBT representation in comparison to most series.

A Series of Unfortunate Events (n)

Episode 1 ”The Bad Beginning: Part One” synopsis: The dreadful history of the Baudelaire children begins with a deadpan narrator, a terrible fire and the ominous arrival of a distant relative.

Seasons: 2 (2018)

Rating: TV-PG

Language (audio): English (original), French, German, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Supernatural

Episode 1 synopsis: Two brothers witness their mother’s paranormal death and are trained to fight by their father, who aims to hunt down the thing that killed his wife.

Seasons: 12 on Netflix (2017), 13 aired on TV

Rating: TV-14

Language (audio): English (original), Spanish

Subtitles: English, Spanish

PN: It feels like it takes forever for Netflix to put a new season up, so I’m constantly behind. Also makes for a really good show to watch when you have nothing else to watch because there is just so much to watch.

Black Mirror (n)

Brief description (by yours truly): Originally a British sci-fi television series that first aired in 2011, the show has been picked up by Netflix as of 2016. Each episode is a standalone story, typically set in the future or an alternate present.

Seasons: 4 (2017), 5th season expected

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original), French, German, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

PN: I really love this show because you can start watching from any episode in any season. It really feels like this is a series of 19 short films.

American Horror Story

Season 1 Episode 1 synopsis: Therapist Ben Harmon, his wife, Vivien, and their daughter, Violet, move across the country to Los Angeles to escape their troubled past.

Seasons: 6 on Netflix (2016), 7 aired on TV

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original), Spanish

Subtitles: English [CC]

PN: Each season is a different story line but with the same (or at least similar) cast, which a really interesting spin on a TV show.

Stranger Things (n)

Episode 1 “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers” synopsis: On his way home from a friend’s house, young Will sees something terrifying. Nearby, a sinister secret lurks in the depths of a government lab.

Seasons: 2 (2017), 2nd season expected

Rating: TV-14

Language (audio): English (original), French, German Italian, Spanish

Subtitles: English [CC], French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) (n)

Episode 1 synopsis: The Professor recruits a young female robber and seven other criminals for a grand heist, targeting the Royal Mint of Spain.

Seasons: 1 (2017), season 2 release on April 6

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): European Spanish (original), English, French, German, Italian

Subtitles: European Spanish [CC], English, French, German, Italian

Alias Grace (n)

Episode 1 synopsis: Young American doctor Simon Jordan arrives at Canada’s Kingston Penitentiary to study the perplexing mind of Grace Marks, a convicted murderer.

Seasons: 1 (2017)

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original), French, German, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles: English [CC], French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

PN: Based on a book written by Margaret Atwood (the writer of The Handmaid’s Tale). 

Orange is the New Black (n)

Episode 1 “I Wasn’t Ready” synopsis: Sentenced to fifteen months for a crime committed in her youth, Piper Chapman leaves her supportive fiance Larry for her new home: a women’s prison

Seasons: 5 (2017)

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original), French, German, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles: English [CC], French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Million Yen Women (n)

Episode 1 “The Mysterious Million Yen Women” synopsis: A strange and sudden series of offers leads Shin to host five beautiful residents in his home. But he’s not allowed to ask questions of them.

Seasons: 1 (2017)

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): Japanese (original)

Subtitles: English, Japanese [CC], Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Colony

Episode 1 synopsis: In occupied Los Angeles, a former FBI agent attempts a risky smuggling operation and is later offered an unsavory job with a tempting payoff.

Seasons: 2 (2017), season 3 release on May 2

Rating: TV-14

Language (audio): English

Subtitles: English [CC]

The Five

Episode 1 synopsis: A woman’s murder at a hotel leads detective Danny to discover a shocking DNA match to blood at the scene. A traumatized girl is found on the streets.

Seasons: 1 (2016) **complete**

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original), French

Subtitles: English, English [CC], French

The Walking Dead

Episode 1 “Days Gone Bye” synopsis: Rick searches for his family in a world terrorized by the walking dead. Morgan and Duane help teach Rick the new rules for survival.

Seasons: 7 on Netflix (2017), 8 aired on TV

Rating: TV-MA

Language (audio): English (original)

Subtitles: English [CC]

Cancelled shows that are still really worth your time

Dark Matter: 3 seasons, 2015-2017

The 4400: 4 seasons, 2004-2007

Merlin: 5 seasons, 2008-2012

Not technically cancelled, but the ending leaves something to be desired and many fans are still hoping for a revival of the show

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Dark Foreign Shows On Netflix That Are Worth The Binge

Do you want to travel foreign lands, but can not due to the coronavirus pandemic? Netflix has a solution. It has a bunch of foreign series that will take you on a journey to another country. There are some popular series everyone is talking about, and there are a handful of shows which are good but have not gained much popularity. When we are looking to binge-watch a new show, it should be worth investing the time. Netflix has a massive list of foreign shows, like Dark, which is a German show and revolves around missing children. The show has three seasons with 26 episodes. Dark has received great appreciation from critics and as well as audiences.

Another great hit was the Spanish crime drama La Casa de Papel (Money Heist). The creator intended to keep it a limited series of two seasons. But the success rate of the shows inspires the team to run the show for four seasons. The series is the most-watched show on Netflix, whose fifth season is expected to be released in 2021. The following are a few lists of mystery shows that you can watch on Netflix and travel countries like Britain, Belgium, and Finland through it.

Deadwind

Deadwind is a Finnish crime drama TV series created and directed by Rike Jokela. The series stars Lauri Tilkanen, Pihla Viitala, Jani Volanen, and Tommi Korpela. Deadwind premiered in Finland on Yle TV2 in March 2018 and on Netflix in August 2018. The show’s plot revolves around a detective of the Finnish police, Sofia Karppi, who is recently widowed with her two children in her 30s. She returned to her work in Helsinki and got her first case of the murder of a social affairs consultant, Anna Bergdahl. The first season received wide appreciation from critics. And the second season premiered on Yle TV on 5 April 2020 and Netflix on 1 July 2020. The show is an easy binge with two seasons, with 12 episodes in the first one and eight in the second.

Safe

Safe is a British drama TV mini-series created by famous crime author Harlan Coben, co-wrote the screenplay with Danny Brocklehurst. The show is set in England, produced by Canal+, and distributed by C8 in France. The shoot of the Safe started in Liverpool. Manchester, and Cheshire in July 2017. It consists of eight episodes that premiered on 10 May 2018 in 190 countries. The plot revolves around an Englishman, Tom Delaney (played by Michael C. Hall), who is a pediatric surgeon and a widowed father of two teenage daughters. He tries to connect with his daughters as they are still in the grief of losing their mother. And later his 16- year old Jenny goes missing. Tom uncovers a web of secrets to search her and find horrible truths about his friends and neighbors. Safe is a perfect show to binge-watch if you are looking for a twisted plot. The drama is just eight hour-long episodes, so you can easily cover the whole series on weekends. It is Coben’s first drama that made its way to Netflix in May 2018.

The Stranger

The Stranger is a British mystery thriller series based on the novel of the same name by author Harlan Coben in 2015. Danny Brocklehurst writes the screenplay of the series. The mini-series premiered on 30 January 2020 on Netflix. The show stars Siobhan Finneran, Richard Armitage, and Hannah John-Kamen and is shot in Manchester. The plot follows a mysterious woman who is The Stranger, played by Kamen. The woman knows everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets and uses the information to get what she needs. Later in the story, when she approaches a man whose wife recently goes missing, the investigator started a search operation against the unknown woman. And many more answers come to the surface.

The Five

The Five is a British mystery thriller mini-series created by author Harlan Coben and co-wrote with Danny Brocklehurst. The series stars O. T. Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby, Tom Cullen, and Sarah Solemani. The plot revolves around four childhood friends Danny, Mark, Slade, and Pru. They reunited and left DNA evidence at a murder scene, which revealed that Mark’s younger brother disappeared twenty years ago while playing in the park with the four friends. The show broadcast on Sky1 on 15 April 2016. It consists of ten episodes and releases two episodes each week. The Five is set in Westbridge’s fictional town and filmed in Liverpool, Runcorn, and Wirral.

The Break

The Break is a French-language Belgian crime drama TV series directed by Matthieu Donck and produced by Anthony Rey. It broadcast on 21 February 2016 on RTBF’s La Une. It premiered on Netflix on 29 August 2016 in the United States and 21 December 2016 in Canada. Season 2 of the show premiered on 11 November 2018 in Belgium and released on Netflix on 9 February 2019. The series was initially titled La Treve and took place in a small village with many secrets. A police detective moves to the village with his daughter and soon gets involved with a murder investigation. When the boy’s body was found from the river initially, it is believed to be a suicide, but the detective doubts it as a murder. There is so much in the series to discover. The above are some mini-series that you can watch on your weekends and spend your time with mind-twisting mystery series.

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Money Heist: The Real Reason The Robbers Have City Names

Money Heist is one of the most liked shows of Netflix. And the characters of the show have geographic codenames. Although later in the show, their backstories and names were revealed, the Professor assigned city codenames to his team members in the first place. Even officer Raquel Murillo who later joined the heist was also given the city name Lisbon. In this article, we will try to find out the reason why the robbers were assigned city names?

Money Heist is a Spanish heist crime drama series originally named La Casa de Papel (The House of Paper). Alex Pina creates the television series. The series was initially planned to be of two seasons. The original show in Spanish has 15 episodes on Antena 3. The original version aired from 2nd May 2017 to 23rd November 2017. Netflix later streamed the show in 2017. Show creator then re-cut the series into 22 episodes and released the series worldwide from 20th December 2017 to 6th April 2018. Netflix renewed the show with a moderately increased budget for 16 episodes. The third season of the series was eight episodes and released on 19th July 2019. The fourth season came out on 3rd April 2020 with eight episodes. And in July 2020 the team of Money Heists began their production work of the fifth season.

The shooting of the series took place in Madrid, Spain. Few sequences of the show were filmed in Thailand, Italy, and Panama. Money Heist is the story from the perspective of a woman named, Tokyo, played by Ursula Corbero. The show was a great hit and widely accepted and appreciated by audiences and critics. It has won 46th International Emmy Awards. The Italian anti-fascist song “Bella ciao” became a chat-buster which was played multiple times in the show.

La casa de Papel is set in Madrid, a mysterious man known as “Professor”, who recruited eight people and gave them code names after cities to execute a heist in the Royal Mint of Spain. The team captured 67 people for 11 days to print money and escaped with €2.4 billion. The group then hid to save themselves from police and found themselves preparing for the second heist.

The idea of the series is conceived by director Jesus Colmenar and screenwriter Alex Pina during their collaboration for a project in 2008. After finishing their project of the Spanish prison drama named Vis a vis (Locked up). They left the studio of Globomedia and started their own company named Vancouver Media in the year 2016. They planned to keep the series limited as the ratings of their previous show dropped due to the delusion of the story. The team decided the first project will be either comedy or a heist story. The show was initially titled as Los Desahuciados (The Evicted) during the conception phase, and it was developed with combined elements of thriller, surrealism, and action genres. Pina found an advantage for heist movies, as the characters in the series can have multiple sides to break the preconceptions of the audiences. The initial storyline of the show was pretty good, but the extraordinary story beats failed to impress the writers. To make the story up to the mark, writer Javier Gomez Santander tried to go deeper into the thoughts of the character Professor, he also consulted engineers who he could not tell why he asked them that.

The shooting of the series started in January 2017 after five-month pre-production. For financial consideration, the story was split into two parts. Although the code name of the robbers was based on city names, it was assumed to be inspired from 1992 Quentin Tarantino’s heist film titled Reservoir Dogs. The creators shared that to write the first five lines of the show took them months to final, as it was challenging to make Moscow or Professor as narrator. In the end, Tokyo was presented as an unreliable narrator to make the story more fluid.

The casting for the show started in late 2016 and took more than two months to finalize the actors for the respective roles. The Professor’s character was written beautifully as a charismatic yet shy person who could convince the rest of the robbers to follow him and also able to make the viewers sympathetic to the robbers’ actions.

In the cast of the Professor, the producer initially wanted to cast Javier Gutierrez, but he was busy with his film Campeones. The casting director cast Alvaro Morte for the role later, who was famous for his soap opera El Secreto de Puente Viejo. The actor shared that the character was full of surprises, and he enjoyed revealing every fold of the character.

The show was directed by Jesus Colmenar, created by Alex Pina, and the cinematographer of the series was La Vanguardia. Salvador Dali was chosen for the famous heist mask of the show since Dali is an iconic cultural reference to Spain. The idea of the city names of the team members was cool, and it also helped the writer to create subtle suspense to grow the characters slowly and efficiently. However, in the series Professor named his team in city code names to secure the anonymity of the crew from the police. The Professor was planning the big heist of the Royal Mint for years, and he had ensured that every part of it was safe for the plan and his teammates. He also planned it in such a way that no crew knew each other and had personal attachments. However, the plan did not stand out very well as Moscow insisted on bringing his son in the plan; Helsinki and Oslo were cousins, and Rio and Tokyo started a romantic relationship. And the Professor broke his own rule by including his brother Berlin.

In an interview with Lifestyle Magazine the showrunner of the show Money Heist, Alex Pin revealed that the team’s code names based on cities were random. Initially, they were planning to keep the names after planets. And when someone turned up one day wearing a T-shirt with the word Tokyo, that’s how it started. Professor had chosen city names to mislead the police while the process of analyzing them. The crew belonged to different places around the world, and the name of the city is not corresponding to their origin. The naming pattern is a little unconventional for Monica, who was named “Stockholm” due to the speculation of Stockholm Syndrome. However, more than any practical reason, the city names were cool and catchy. In a typical crime movie or show the nicknames generate suspense around the character like in Reservoir Dogs’ as Mr. Pink and Mr. Blue. We are hoping Money Heist season 5 will provide us with some more insights and real names of Bogota and Marseille.

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