Agustin Martinez (‘The hunt. Monteperdido’ and part of the Carmen Mola trio winner of the Planet) and Carlos Montero (‘Elite’, ‘The disorder you leave’) know how to handle ‘thrillers’ well, as they have shown in their television fictions and their books. So they decided to join forces for their next project, ‘Fair: the darkest light’, the new Spanish series of Netflix that arrives on the platform this Friday, January 28. But it was not enough for them to stay in suspense and they wanted to add touches of fantasy and horror, exploring a sinister environment in which sects and fantastic elements are mixed that contrast so much with the luminous town of the Andalusian mountains in which the plot takes place, located in the mid-90s.
The weight of history is carried by two young sisters, Sofía and Eva (Carla Campra and Ana Tomeno), who go from being carefree teenagers who go partying on the night of San Juan to waking up the next day turned into the daughters of the so-called murderers of 23 people in the abandoned mine in town. After the event that turns their lives upside down, their parents (Marta Nieto and Ernest Villegas) are unaccounted for and their neighbors are suspicious of them, which puts them in an extreme situation without even having reached the age of majority.
“They are characters who experience very ‘heavy’ things that are not typical of teen series,” stresses Tomeno, who speaks of “how much these sisters, so different from each other, mature over the years. eight episodes of ‘Fair’. “Eva is very outward, wanting to look good with everyone, while Sofía is the opposite, it seems that she doesn’t love anyone, but in the end they end up really showing themselves,” adds Campra, an actress from Barcelona who, Despite his 22 years, he already has more than twenty film and television projects, such as ‘The Other Look’, ‘Veronica’, ‘Acacias, 38’, ‘Everybody Knows’ and ‘Temperance’, where he coincided with his partner, who debuted in ‘La isla minima’.
The person in charge of investigating the complex case is a policeman far removed from the mystical and paranormal world in which the plot is becoming entangled. “That’s what’s interesting, getting to the town through the eyes of this pragmatic policeman for whom the case is huge and coming across this whole universe, all those lies, half-truths and secrets kept for years and discovering exactly what’s behind it. “, it states Isak Ferriz, in charge of giving life to that agent of the law.
The transition from adolescence to adult life
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The actor from ‘Gigantes’ and ‘Cites’ recognizes that the series can have many metaphors, such as “the transition from adolescence to adult life” that the young protagonists have “and suddenly evil appears, temptations, and they have to learn to deal with it with the few tools you have at that age. Martha Grandson, who plays the missing mother of the girls, brings out that ‘Fair’ could also be seen even from a political perspective. “There is something of that fanaticism that resonates in current extremist politics,” says the actress, who defines her character, the trigger for the entire story, as a woman “mysterious and very human at the same time.”
Directed by George Golden (‘The Ministry of Time’, ‘The Pier’) and Carlos Torrens (‘El internado: Las Cumbres’), and sprinkled with a few nude scenes because of the sect that appears in the plot, the cast also includes actors such as Patricia López Arnaiz, Ángela Cremonte, Carlos Scholz, Felipe Pirazán, Salva Reina, Jorge Motos, Carmen Navas, Lazar Dragojevic, Pablo Gómez-Pando and Pepa Gracia. All of them contribute to the fact that this town of whitewashed houses demonstrates from the first chapter that it is not as idyllic as it seems.