El Silencio - Season 1

Is Sergio really a life-threatening killer who threw his parents over the balcony? Psychiatrist Ana tries to answer this question. She follows Sergio, without his knowledge, after his release in order to find out his true nature. When Sergio Ciscar's (Arón Piper, Elite) parents are killed by being thrown over the balcony, he is immediately arrested as a suspect. Although he himself says nothing about the fateful evening, he is nevertheless convicted and ends up in an institution for minors. About six years later, he is released and mentor Natanael (Ramiro Blas, Vis a Vis) takes care of him while Sergio moves back into the family home. But it turns out there are more people who are still watching him.

The scripts and situations the characters find themselves in are more like a soap opera than a psychological thriller.

Ana Dussuel (Almudena Amor) is a psychiatrist who was already involved in the case years ago. She has developed a kind of obsession for Sergio and is allowed to follow him for her studies. Without Sergio's knowledge, she and her team install cameras in his house and continuously monitor him indoors and outdoors. The aim of the study is to find out whether Sergio is still dangerous. But Ana also appears to have her personal reasons for following him.

The start of El Silencio was not exactly promising. The unrealistic and incoherent story leaves you with a lot of questions after watching the first episode. Unfortunately, this doesn't change much for the rest of the season. Details time and time again turn out to be incorrect or far too complicated. The storylines that take place in the background also create more ambiguity instead of tension. The character development is also not very good, none of the characters are sympathetic and the decisions they make are often illogical.



During his sentence, Sergio appears to have received the necessary attention from groupies. One of the girls who wrote letters to him is Marta (Christina Kovani). After Sergio's release, they contact each other, although she keeps this a secret from her family and boyfriend Eneko (Manu Rios, Élite: Historias Breves). When Ana's team learns of their connection, Ana sees this as an opportunity to use Marta for her investigation. However, Marta is not waiting for this.

Corrupt police officers, murders, threats, you would think that this combination makes for an exciting whole. Yet there is not really much tension and the series mainly ripples on. During the last episode, all storylines come together and form a complex but above all absurd climax. It finally becomes clear whether or not Sergio has committed the murder of his parents. The very last scene of El Silencio, however, raises the necessary questions that will probably never be answered.

Both the description and the trailer raise an expectation that El Silencio unfortunately cannot live up to.

Sergio only wants one thing after his release. That is finding his foster sister Noa. However, due to his conviction and image, no one seems to want to help him in this quest. Throughout the episodes, we find out what happened to Sergio prior to his parents' deaths and glimpse his relationship with Noa. Ana also finds information about Sergio's past and thus a possible motive for the murder of his parents. However, the question is whether she judges Sergio objectively when her professionalism is increasingly questioned as her investigation progresses.

Although the actors act credibly, their emotions are in many cases way too exaggerated. This is not so much because of them, but because of the makers who seem to take everything too seriously. The scripts and situations the characters find themselves in are more out of a soap opera than a psychological thriller. There is also little mention of the silence, which is incorporated in the title of the series. After watching the six episodes, my first thought was: what have I actually been watching? Both the description and the trailer raise an expectation that El Silencio unfortunately cannot live up to. As far as I'm concerned, Netflix has much better series and El Silencio can therefore be skipped.