The Dutch series The Empire of Amsterdam In essence it tells us about the revenge of a wife despised and humiliated because her partner abandoned her for a young woman. Nothing new under the sun except that the bad guy is also the owner jackalan important network of shops where cannabis is sold legally. And an important fact: already in 2015, marijuana producers in the Dutch region of Brabant generated an annual turnover of 1 billion euros.
Naturally, when something moves such a sum of money, the presence of local and international mafias is inevitable, and it is in that environment of greed that our protagonists Jack van Doorn and his vengeful wife Betty move in the seven episodes of the first season broadcast on Netflix.
And from the famous phrase “sex, drugs and rock and roll” it seems that we have moved on to “sex, drugs and haute cuisine” we suppose that thanks also to programs like MasterChef in which the kitchens are the queens of the house, or gourmets like Julio Camba, Nestor Luján and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
gluten free is the series that captures the feeling of the new times in which a chef in free fall due to alcoholism (Diego Martín) has no choice but to follow that already apparently Spanish tradition of returning to live in his parents’ house, with a wonderful Marta Fernández Muro, free and maternal. Returning to the fold also means a return as a teacher to the culinary school where he started as a student and where he shares the teaching staff with Adam Jezierski, arguably the funniest character in the series, a self-proclaimed fake influencer who boasts a car, a watch and seduction skills and who turns out to be a pathetic ghost who in some ways recalls Palomero of Look what you’ve doneby Berto Romero.
gluten freecreated by Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor, Javier Aguayo and Germán Aparicio for 1 and Prime Video, with an ensemble cast that includes Antonio Resines, solid as always, Alicia Rubio, Iñaki Ardanaz, Richard Collins-Moore, among others, demonstrates, or so we believe, that farce and the grotesque have found worthy successors in the screenwriters of indigenous narrative series supported, yes, by illustrious politicians such as Mazón, Gamarra and Núñez Feijóo.
