The rankings of the most viewed programs of a streaming platform have never been a guarantee of quality, especially since we do not know the share of subscribers having launched the content to abandon it along the way. But when you are top 1 of an SVOD service like Netflix, whose catalog is fills almost every day, one can think that its position is deserved or, at least, that the film or the series holds part of its promises. And sometimes, we simply suspect a very good job of the marketing team. Like The gardener.
You know us, we never miss an opportunity to (re) slide a little tackle Gardenerthe film which had risen to first place in the top 10 premium video at the start of the year when its place was more at the bottom of the Turkish toilet of hell. So, we admit, beyond its Netflix ranking, we wanted to get started in The gardener just to have fun doing Comparisons between our two plant lovers. Finally, this intention will stop there, not for lack of envy, but because The gardener had at least the luxury of hurting only humor and cinema. The gardenerhe decided to be just as badly fucked up and also unhealthy. Why do things halfway …
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What does the series tell?
When he was a child, Elmer and his mother, China Jurado, had a car accident, causing the young man a brain injury depriving him of all emotion. A peculiarity that his mother was able to use by transforming him into a hitman.
His new mission is to make Violeta disappear, a teacher. But in contact, Elmer will rediscover emotions, and even love. There is no longer any question of killing it. Except that China sees this relationship with a bad eye which risks jeopardizing their lifestyle and his relationship with Elmer.
Why El Jardinero is not worthy of your time
We know that the series designed by Miguel Sáez Carral has insulted anyone and that if you have a good time in front, it is not us who will tell you what to do. This is not our role. Our role is to guide you in your choices because Netflix is full of much more pleasant productionsand less harmful. We recommend or, in this case, we do not recommend. And this, for two main reasons.
The first is the least annoying since it is the very quality of the series. The introductory episode suggests thatThe gardener was going to play in the field of Dexter and You With an atmosphere between black thriller and romance, The lack of emotions in Elmer being one of the key points of the concept. Dead, lies and a castrating mother on the program, the start of the show has her playing cards and we are intrigued.
Then, the story runs for five other episodes and we realize that there was a scam on the goods. The deadly sequences are extremely rare, the romance between Elmer and Violeta vampirizes the whole intrigue and The apathy of the killer is put under the carpet most of the time. We are promised a killer without emotion, he discovers one after ten minutes, then it leaves and it comes back, it’s made from very little things. A season in six episodes when in an hour, we seem to have toured the subject.
Especially since the form does not help. Any tenderness to Elmer aside (we will come back to it), it must be recognized that the casting plays one in two scene; The staging does not distinguish a murder from an intimate sequence; The omnipresent voiceover of Cecilia Suárez (China) literally explains to us what we can see very well on the screen; And we would almost forget this altar with a photo openly made by IA. Even without being demanding, difficult to vibrate in front of The gardener which we just save the credits.
The second reason for our disenchantment comes from the point staged on the screen. We know that the attraction for the bad boy has existed since the dawn of time and that the productions have always known how to make the latter sympathetic, even charming, with the so -called “technique of” Less worse of both ». Basically, we put a problematic guy on the screen, then we put an even more toxic type in front, to make the first acceptable. Beauty and the Beast, Twilight, fifty shades of Gray… The list is very very long and always makes a box with the public. To the point where we were entitled to projects pushing the vice much further, as 365 days. As a reminder, even Penn Badgley was sorry to see so many people support his character in You.
The gardener is part of this movement. Everything is done so that our killer, who will accumulate toxic actions far beyond … his murders (already a big clue), is pleasant. He only kills violent menhe is under control, he has the emotional quotient of a child … each of his ” bad »Actions has a forgivable justification. And although all the strong roles of the series are held by women, the writing of the latter must be questioned, since they are described as the responsible for the misfortune of men. The innocent Violeta is not the supposed victim, the mother is manipulative, and even in the duo of cops, it is the investigator who pushes to infidelity. In short, we charge women to make our gardener the victim par excellence.
The gardener does not have its place in the top 10 and does not even have the qualities to be in the Netflix catalog in 2025. And the worst part is that he plans a season 2.
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