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This time I will give you my opinion about the recent Netflix series "Merlina" which I just finished watching, so I have the comments and the desire to talk about the series at the top of my lungs. I'll tell you right off the bat that overall I thought the series was an 8/10 for several reasons that I will describe later. A little bit about the series, my review and comments is what we will talk about in this post, apart from inviting you to watch it if you haven't done it, I recommend it without any problem.
I would also like to tell you that everything I will explain is based on my opinion and personal criteria as a viewer, so if you also have any opinion about what you have seen in the series I invite you to share it in the comments, I would like to know what you say.
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Summary
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Merlina Addams (Jenna Ortega) is a 16 year old teenager belonging to the renowned Addams Family, recognition they have for being a family with a particular lifestyle being more dark and gloomy. Merlina is a cold, apathetic girl, with a great indifference for and with others, with behaviors that largely border the limits of the illegal, characterized by her cruelty and painful way of performing her pranks, finding satisfaction in it.
Merlina is taken to a new school to conclude her school year because in her old school she was expelled for her same cruel and antisocial behaviors. The same school for people who don't fit in the common society categorizing themselves as "outcasts" where her parents, Homer Addams (Luis Guzman) and Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) also attended. Upon arriving at school Merlina knows she must do what she has never liked in her life which is to socialize and create a school life in her new environment, so she decides to run away until she realizes that in her same school mysterious murders are occurring that somehow involve her because of her psychic abilities to have visions, which feeds her curiosity.
The series consists of 8 chapters in the first season and has a duration of 45 minutes per chapter. It is rumored (although it is not official) that there will be a second season.
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Análisis de personaje
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Character analysis
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Something I like to do every time I watch a series is to analyze its characters, and Merlina gave me a lot of fabric to cut, in this case I will only focus on the protagonist. Merlina besides representing a girl as described in the summary, also demonstrates to a great extent the emotional and social conflicts that a person can have from the transition from child to a totally new stage as adolescence, obviously obviating the unrealistic, gloomy and antisocial behaviors that I know since it is only part of the plot, but in the aspects that are difficult for them to relate, their sense of independence due to their own upbringing being at the same time an advantage but also playing against them because of their arrogance when they realize that they need allies and must somehow connect with them, but not because they don't want to as a whole, but because they don't know how to do it!
Another thing that I really liked is that if I were looking for an example of someone who says exactly what she thinks and gives logical and personal arguments to that thought about something or someone no matter who it is, it is Merlina, beyond qualifying if it is something good or bad, for me I was impressed, and I liked that ability that did not cost her at all. More to point out is her incredible intelligence, skills for almost any situation and her way of anticipating the moves of those she considers her opponents and the oppositional attitude for what she doesn't think is fair.
To conclude this part, I could not leave behind the spectacular work done by the actress Jenna Ortega playing Merlina, just to faithfully give the psychological and behavioral attributes to the character, but the very essence of the character is herself and this we have seen in other actors who embody a character and make them the character that is hard to distinguish. Also the determination and concentration to maintain the body profile without expressions of the character, I was aware of every gesture for the same reason, the truth if the second season of merlina premiered tomorrow, I would watch it just to return to Jenna Ortega on screen.
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Obviously the series does not represent 100% of the crazy Addams movies nor the Merlina of the series covers in its entirety to the Merlina as a child that is seen in the tapes, but for me all this has a reason to be that I consider that they are some of the reasons. The series is given a totally different context than what is seen in the movies, starting that she is no longer a girl as such but a teenager who despite being an Addams does not escape the reality of the changes that adolescence brings, therefore the characteristics of the Merlina as a girl in the movies could not pass without undergoing some change. Also that the focus of the series is centered on Merlina and the people around them developing their own story, giving more prominence to the whole family would have diverted attention, just as I enjoy the small moments of participation of the Addams family in the series especially the appearance of Uncle Lucas (Fred Armisen).
Another thing to comment if the theme of the murders, I really liked that it was not the typical series (eye these series I also like) where each chapter occurs a murder and the protagonist against all odds solves who committed it, here that does not happen, but on the contrary, all the murders only hinder the way to understand who or what is happening in the school.
I must confess that I am a big fan of adolescent plots and clichés as long as they are real, not forced and have a logical development or at least for logical that is in the series, and this series was no exception, especially how to combine Merlina's characteristic personality with an adolescent cliché.
Now something negative if I can see it to the series, it is not bad to die but it is within what I did not like and it is the end, I feel that it was like when you expose a great topic but as you are short of time you must hurry and close the topic missing things to deepen, ps something like that felt that end, many things were open that were noticed in past chapters and the details were not deepened but got them a quick closure. It's not a bad ending but I do feel it was lacking, but it could be that they did it also to give material or opening for a next season.
And well appreciated Hivers of the world of movies and series, for my part that's all for this occasion, I'm not very experienced doing reviews of series but I hope with time and the tools of Hive to gain experience and bring you more content of this type. I hope you enjoyed reading me, remember that you can leave me your comments and I will be happy to know what you thought and any support you want to give me I will be very grateful.
"Si buscas la perfeccion, nunca estaras satisfecho" León Tolstói
"If you seek perfection, you will never be satisfied." León Tolstói
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