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San Sebastián Hails Spain’s Crime Series Boom, Debates Its Drivers
Apart from ‘Breathless,’ nearly all Netflix’s seven No. 1 non-English global hits from Spain were crime or part-crime series.
This time round, a panel highlighted crime series, featuring Movistar Plus+ ’s Susana Herreras, Laura Sarmiento, showrunner of Netflix hit “Intimacy” and lead writer on “Burning Body,” and Elías León Siminiani, co-creator of the 2017 docuseries “El caso Asunta (Operación Nenúfar)” which inspired the 2024 Netflix fiction series, “El Caso Asunta.” Fran Araujo and Pepe Coira, lead writers of Movistar Plus+ crime series hits “Hierro” and “Rapa” “researched, read, created documentation before and during the writing. France is proud of its “light crime” series – think “HPI” or “Tandem” with “Tom & Lola” another candidate, which mix women’s sleuth work with domestic life and may be set in a luminous South.
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