PEr Parents who cannot understand their children, there are others who are not knowing them too well, but they also play a decisive role on them. This is the premise of The gardener, series recently landed on Netflix and, surprisingly, arrived in the first place in the ranking of the most viewed content in Italy. Here is everything you need to know.
The gardener On Netflix: Plot and episodes number
Following a serious accident, The young Elmer has lost the ability to experience emotions. He works like this with his mother China in a gardening company. Cover for the activity of Sicario on commission that the young man performs on orders of her, eager to return to Mexico. Investigating his next target, the teacher Violeta, Elmer ends up falling in love with her, without knowing that she too hides a turbulent past. In the meantime, the police begin to investigate the mysterious murders.
The gardener It is made up of six episodes of about 45 minutes episodes each. Despite Netflix present it as miniseries (and therefore with a first and only season), the ending Leave the doors open for a season 2. That, given success could become reality.
Elmer and Violeta in a scene of “The gardener”. (Netflix)
The review of The gardener
To commission the murders in China, we find women eager to get rid of violent men. The gardener It therefore proposes a theme today very current but from a particular perspectivewhich colors the crimes of a gray shade: ambiguously justified in terms of correction of unsustainable situations.
Just as Elmer presents as an asocial boy and unable to relate to others. A stereotypical trait already in itself, as indeed the causes, that is, the authority and willingness of the mother who throws a lugubrious shadow on the effects of bad parenting. Too bad thisbackground ambiguity is not at all exploited by the series, which prefers to travel much safer paths.
To lead the narrative is China’s out -of -the -field voice, which, the more he tries to justify his actions The more it does only make his bad conduct clear. The series focuses on her, facilitating an immediate contempt for him and leaving no doubt to the viewer. Her “love” for her son, she repeatedly declared, is only a love for herself It is a harmful feeling for Elmar.
The latter tries to escape from maternal influence Thanks to Violeta, embodiment of sincere love. Just the love story between the two progressively becomes the fulcrum of the narrative, sunny counterbilactation to the dark relationship between mother-child. What to expect from their relationship is clear from the beginning, And to fill the six episodes, the series then adds characters and subplotsother love storys and other mysteries to probe: only sketched and poorly blended components, to whom they do not benefit not very convincing interpreters.
In The gardener So everything is white/black, bad/good, and the atmospheres of the seriescalculating without hesitation on these elements, seek the sensationalistic effect on one side and the emotion on the other. A surprise trend that does not deepen situations or characters. Bates Motel But in the soap opera version, it would be to be closed.
The mutual attraction between Elmer and Violeta. (Netflix)
The cast of Giardinere
In the cast Of Giardinere we find Álvaro Rico (Elmer), Cecilia Suárez (China), Catalina Sopelana (Violeta) Emma Suárez (Sabela, the woman who commissioned Violeta’s murder)Francis Lorenzo (Torres) and María Vázquez (Carrera), the two policemen investigating the mysterious murders made by Elmer. These are new faces for the Italian public, which however can remember Suàrez as the protagonist of Julieta by Pablo Almodovar.
“The gardener” (Netflix)
How it ends The gardener
In the end, China tries to convince her son to leave violent to escape with her in Mexico. Thus he hires a man, Orson, to kill the girl, who, however, manages to overturn the situation and get the better of the latter, and then leave a message to Elmar in which he reveals that he discovered the truth about him.
The two rejoin, They mask the murder of Orson as an accident and then separate: the girl returns to her friends, the other from her mother, with whom she has a violent confrontation. China hits him and takes him to the hospital, where he is removed the tumor, so as to make him return to the stadium in which he is without emotions. Meanwhile, Torres and Carrera have been forced to leave the case due to lack of evidence.
In the family greenhouse, everything returns to “normality”: You can see Elmer regain his activities, until suddenly an old acquaintance visits him. It is Violeta, who, surprisingly, commissioned him a murder. While the credits flow, several garbage bags, containing the bodies of the victims of Elmar, re -emerge from the sea, and On the beach waiting for them there are Torres and Carrera. The investigations and, perhaps, the series can therefore resume.
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