Every month, I comb through Netflix’s slate of new movies and TV shows and in February, I was greeted with a surprise: “Prison Cell 211.” To anybody who has seen the excellent 2009 movie “Cell 211,” that name might seem a little familiar, and I initially wondered if this new Netflix thriller might be a sequel series or even a remake.
It turns out, it’s a new adaption of the 2003 novel by Francisco Pérez Gandul on which the movie was also based. So, yes, these two projects share a lot of similarities, and that’s a very good thing. The movie was a critical hit scoring 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, and while “Prison Cell 211” may not quite hit the same soaring heights, it’s still on course to be a real streaming smash hit.
“Prison Cell 211” debuted on Netflix earlier this week (on Wednesday, Feb. 5),
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