When a show like That Night, the new Netflix series from Spain, tells the same story from different perspectives, it’s sometimes hard to get more than a surface sketch of who the show’s main characters are. Sometimes, a clever storytelling conceit comes at the cost of really connecting with the story’s characters, which is what we saw here.
THAT NIGHT: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot: A woman walks through a building with files on a cart. A baby’s picture is clipped to the folder. She sits down with a laptop and listens to recordings of women talking about a murder they were accused of.
The Gist: The women are the Abrizu sisters: Elena (Clara Galle), Paula (Claudia Salas) and Cris (Paula Usero), all from Pamplona, Spain, who were arrested and put on trial for a murder in the Dominican Republic.
We flash back to the D.R., where
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