
Riot Police
Taste attributes: crimedramadetectiveactionfasttried & testedunsavouryheavylineargrittyemotionally undemandingcomplex relationshipfighting evil
Boxlist takeA weighty crime series, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like depth over escapism.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
7.6 /10
TMDB · 88 votes
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Season
Season 1
· 2020 · 6 episodesEpisodes (6)
1Osorio16 Oct 2020
A van of six riot police is sent to carry out an eviction in the center of Madrid. Normally two or three teams attend, but it is August, there are few troops and they must go alone. The eviction is difficult and hard, but just when they believe that everything is under control, the most violent and youngest of the six…
2López16 Oct 2020
The six riot police continue with their lives unrelated to being investigated. But the Internal Affairs team advances without discovering anything special. Only Laia believes that there is more than bad luck after the death of the immigrant. When the team leader asks that the investigation be closed and everything is…
- 3Revilla16 Oct 2020
4Úbeda16 Oct 2020
Revilla's maneuvers bear fruit and the riot police are no longer in the spotlight. Diego and Laia find a pattern of urban corruption and Laia pulls the thread until she finds the businessman at the forefront of the plot. When he learns that the immigrant's criminal report is false, he realizes that he has made a…
5Parra16 Oct 2020
While the Riot Police pay the consequences of their deal with Revilla, Laia begins to collaborate with the special commission that investigates the plot. They soon discover that there was a riot police chief involved and that this is none other than Rosales, Álex's uncle. To prove their theory, they need the testimony…
6Urquijo16 Oct 2020
Laia manages to get Álex to turn her over to her uncle, who collaborates with them by wiretapping a meal with all the senior officials investigated. The operation could not go better and Laia begins the procedures to deliver their heads. Two hooded men steal all the information on the case and beat him up. The six…
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What lines up
- Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
- Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
- Setting / scale: Balanced setting / scale, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Emotional punch: Undemanding, where this profile leans emotive / stirring
- Originality: Tried & tested, where this profile leans fresh / original
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Synopsis
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Synopsis: TMDB
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Details
- Genre
- Crime
- Year
- 2020
- Episode length
- 52 min
- Status
- Ended
- Studio
- Caballo Films
- Taste scores
- How we score
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