The new miniseries Sin Limites, filmed in Spanish and presented as Boundless on Prime, follows the 16th-century explorer transformed into the history / geography class of Ferdinand “Strit of Magellan” Magellan and the first expedition to successfully navigate a planet that some strictly believe is hidden and will tell you all about it on Reddit. Does Twist end up where Magellan, his Elcano foil and salty equipment fall off the board? Just spit.
SIN LIMITES: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening shot: the sails are carefully opened on a Spanish ship as the sunset approaches over the ocean, a narrator who regrets how “the world we hope to conquer is boundless, there is no board to sink or to navigate in the dark ”. “the light of knowledge” without mercy, and facing “the darkness that lives in us” to do so. See the article : 5 uplifting moments in Latin music this week (June 25).
The essence: In an epic piece set almost exactly 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan, 39, (Rodrigo Santoro, aka Paolo sexy from Lost, Hector sexy from Westworld, Xerxes sexy from 300) carefully deduced a theoretical hack. travel to reach the so- called East Indies going west, around the globe, rather than south and east around the southern tip of Africa. Ignored by the king of his native Portugal, Ferd launched the monarch of Spain in 1519 and carried out a five-ship mission with “237 souls” under his command. The latest recruit is the newly locked navigator Juan Sebastian Elcano (Álvaro Morte, El Profesor in Money Heist), whose misadventures as an amiable escape are traced through the pilot as a counterpoint to Magellan. Internal conflicts, mutiny, disease, madness, and violent colonialism are sure to follow, but the episode stops just as they embark.
Directed by Simon West, the Briton who gave us Con Air and Lara Croft in 2001: Tomb Raider, written by Patxi Amezcua, created by Miguel Menéndez de Zubillaga. Filmed by Shelly Johnson (Captain America: The First Avenger, Jurassic Park III), filmed in Spain and the Dominican Republic, billed since its announcement as a “high-budget film production,” presumably for a sum of $ 21 million. Other actors, whose work has been mainly done abroad, include Bárbara Goenaga as the pregnant wife of Magellan Beatriz (essentially the only female character, and she is not married), Paulo Pinto, Carlos Cuevas , Adrián Lastra, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Raúl Tejón, Didac Calpe, Gonçalo Diniz.
What shows will you remember? These numerous dripping candles, sets of castles, animated gates, and meticulously dressed actors guarantee a bone tickle of Game of Thrones, down to the title credits including artistic cartography on a triumphant medieval bop. Or, for a new entry into our post-GoT world, the adaptation of Amazon’s Wheel of Time, which also includes electrician Álvaro Morte as Logain. (No magic or dragons here. So far.) The ways the simmering contempt between the Spaniards and their Portuguese neighbors manifested brings me a little into the mind of Pachinko’s complex interpersonal frictions between his Korean and Japanese characters; I might just be here, but every reason to think about Pachinko is what I take. Some Master and Commander and Pirates of the Caribbean vibes can wait for us on the open seas.
Our take: Boundless’s opening hour successfully channels the crackling way of “speaking and drinking in dark rooms” of the early Thrones, with a faster plot anchored by authentic, compelling performances, impressive scenery and thoughtful choices behind it. the room. I really feel the passionate work (and beards) of Santoro and Death here – it’s gratifying to see a story of those story books that are hard to remember being shot in place and in historically accurate languages, rather than an anachronistic Hollywoodification driven by it. ‘Americans who make vaguely British accents. (Boundless / Sin Limites was actually created, for Variety, by the Spanish national public broadcaster RTVE and “the Spanish Ministry of Defense … on the occasion of the fifth centenary of [the expedition]”). It may be hard to ignore how the extensive Talk of Precious Alien Species came from the fact that they will be acquired through genocidal tactics and religious conversion of the natives, but at least we know – SPOILERS FOR THE LIFE OF EXPLORER FERDINAND MAGELLAN – our protagonist will be killed trying to do so. so that.
Sex and Skin: Less than 10 minutes, you have guys burying their faces in women’s cleavage in a tavern / brothel, and a guy bending over for a humping simulation. This incites a melee that ends with a man hanging from a chandelier while his pants are torn, showing an ass immediately whipped by a drunken sailor carrying it like a sack of grain. Soon after, two lips-licking idiots approach a teenager hoping to sexually assault them in prison, leading to a spike in the face and a beating from the savior of our new friend, Elcano.
Parting Shot: Magellan is adorablely spreading a spyglass until the crew’s trip is close to being over, and it’s time to walk. Cut to a quick bite that – * to Woody’s tune “there’s a snake in my boot!” * – There is a spy on our boat!
Sleeper Star: Niccolò Senni as the Italian scholar Antonio de Pigafetta. He gets on tiptoe on Magellan’s docked ship in his shiny shoes like a Disney character from a hangover thought too messy to navigate in the SS The Little Mermaid, then speaks immediately and through an unimpressed Ferdinand , who yells orders at his crew for the duration. “Captain, the greatest facts are worthless if there is no one to tell them. I will write your facts for posterity,” is the seal of the deal in his pitch to join the cause. Magellan’s 180 wordless on the value of Pigafetta is subtly entertaining, and creates an interesting relationship that I’m ready for more.
Most Pilot-y Line: Guy in the court of Charles I, as Ferdinand seeks the royal co-sign for his expedition: “What do you ask in return?” Magellan: “Let my discoveries bear my name.” Guy: “Gloria? Is that all that guides you?”
Our Call: STREAM IT. The landless pilot differs from the maritime, problematically colonialist story that comes his way, but it’s a captivating 45 minutes to feel relatively rewarding even if he doesn’t decide to end the voyage.
Zach Dionne writes in the Streamin ‘King’s Decider column and writes and records and stuff regularly on SKzd in Patreon.
