Top notch “Fariña” (Translation) - Spanish TV series recommendation (Part 1) The following is a review's translation of a Spanish TV series about drug trafficking in the north of Spain https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/03/01/television/1519861311_610233.html The series based on Nacho Carretero’s book is a really good production, very well acted and with a Galician accent that couldn’t sound better on a national TV. And out of the blue, the new Antena 3 TV series’ promotion was made by itself. Fariña’s kidnap, written by journalist Nacho Carretero, made its title to be pronounced everywhere, it made it current and the series the channel was filming based on the real history of narcotrafficker in Galicia during the ’80s got the best ad campaign they could never dream of. As fate would have it, the series has been able to take advantage of the situation. To be honest and judging by the first episode, Fariña has a great value by itself, apart from this good luck that fate carried. A beginning full of rhythm hooks the audience to a story which proceeds with a good pulse, without decaying and with a Galician accent, rarely spoken on national TV, that I love to hear there. Because this is a story with Galician characters. Therefore, it must have Galician actors and a Galician accent. We can easily change Narcos' “hijueputa malparido” for Fariña’s “carallo” and the Colombian rain forest for the Ría de Arousa sights. Behind the camera we can find Bambú productions, with Galician origins as well and this time they dare to leave the comfort zone they got used to during these last years (Velvet, Gran Hotel, Las chicas del cable, Tiempos de Guerra, each one of them cut from the same cloth) to enter and walk on thin ice, where they have managed to shine and they’ve dared trying new things. Even though sometimes an excessive use of light reflections can draw the audience out, the finished product is, as usual, impeccable.