An intense series about corruption and guilt starring Luis Tosar
Suspense, mystery and action are the ingredients of one of the Spanish series that you can’t miss this weekend: LMidas’ Favorites. An intense Netflix thriller that hooks you from the first episode and stars actor Luis Tosar.
The protagonist of this series Víctor Genovés suffers strange blackmail through a letter thatwhich tells him that if he does not agree to pay a large sum of money, the self-proclaimed “Midas’ Favorites” will kill a random person on the appointed date and add a new victim periodically until they achieve their goal.
Guilt and corruption as drivers of this series
Midas’ favorites It’s a thriller about corruption, but also about guilt. Is anyone willing to take the blame for the deaths of innocent people for not paying the amount they are asked for? A series of intrigue and suspense that has become one of the most viewed in the Netflix catalog. In addition, it was nominated for five Iris Awards, including best fiction, best actor (Luis Tosar) and best director (Mateo Gil).
The Serie Midas’s Favorites has only 6 episodes of about 50 minutes each and was released in 2020. An intense fiction that has been created by Mateo Gil and Miguel Barros that is based on the story by Jack London and that has been filmed in the city of Madrid.
This Netflix thriller is a modern adaptation of the short story of the same name by Jack Londonwhich was translated into Spanish by Jorge Luis Borges as concentric deaths. The script has been written by Miguel Barrios, Mateo Gil, David Muñoz and Arantxa Cuesta.
A random victim
What would you do if someone sent you a letter telling you that if you didn’t pay a large sum of money they would kill a random person on a specific date? This is what happens to a millionaire businessman Víctor Genovés who receives this letter from the so-called “Midas’ Favorites” and has to decide agree to blackmail and pay that money or bear the guilt of an innocent person dying.
The text of the letter is as follows: «Dear Mr. Genovés, we ask you to sell the necessary shares of your property until you can give us 50 million euros. “We do not want to rush you unduly, so we are giving you 10 days, starting today, to comply with our demands.”
Víctor Genovés is blackmailed by a group calling itself “Midas’s Favorites” through letters that are slipped under his door. In the first letter he claims that sell shares of the company or, on the contrary, the civilian population will die randomly at the exact time and place indicated. Who are and where are the “Midas Favorites”? Why have they chosen Víctor Genovés? How can all this madness stop?
It must be taken into account that Genovés has inherited, to the surprise of everyone around him, the millionaire Malvar Group after the death of its former president in strange circumstances. Now, therefore, he is the person in charge of the newspaper El Observador Nacional, which is about to publish a news item in which he denounces that the Banco Industrial de Madrid has been secretly, but legally, selling weapons to a dictator in the East for six years. Half. Will this case be related to blackmail?
At the same time Police are investigating the sudden deaths of several innocent people in the city of Madrid and they do not find any connection between them. In the letter they specifically indicate to the protagonist since they indicate that they would appreciate “if he did not involve the police in the relationship that we began here.”
The cast of the Netflix thriller Midas’ favorites
The role of businessman Víctor Genovés is played by the well-known Spanish actor Luis Tosar that embodies that human being’s capacity for suffering in extreme situations. The businessman decides not to submit to the blackmail and not to pay and then he begins to see the consequences of his actions: the random death of innocent people. Guilt and fear become his worst enemies.
Furthermore, in the distribution of Midas’ favorites there is the actress Marta Belmonte who plays the role of the reporter Mónica Báez and Guillermo Toledo as Inspector Conte. Additionally, the cast includes actors Carlos Blanco, Marta Milans, Goize Blanco, Jorge Andreu, Daniel Holguín, Juan Blanco, Elena Irureta, Adelfa Calvo and Bea Segura, among many others. He has also featured actors such as Joaquin Climent, Carmelo Gómez and Miguel Ángel Solá.
Midas’ favorites It is a Netflix thriller with only 6 episodes, perfect for the weekend, since it can be watched in one sitting. The series was conceived as self-contained, so although its followers have been asking for a second season for some time, it’s going to be very complicated. An intense series of intrigue and suspense that you cannot miss from the Netflix catalog.
