So I snuck the first 20 minutes or so of the first episode in while the wife was sleeping (I will have to rewatch it with her of course and that's fine, I do it all the time) and I noticed two things:
- The amount of episodes is large. I am use to the UK way of show production where you get 4, maybe 6, episodes per series (seasons). I was not expecting to have a 13 episode "part" (season). Not that that is bad. Just wasn't expecting it. I thought the wife and I could knock the 3 "parts" out pretty quick, but with three times what I was expecting, this is gonna take awhile.
I have no issues with show taking awhile
- I was not expecting it to start off Dubbed. I have subtitles set on Netflix so when it started I totally forgot it was subtitled. I watched/listened to the first few minutes of the show dubbed as it is done in the narrative voice so there were no mouth movements to be seen
(I love voiceover flicks. Like Mikey Spillane movies or any PI movie usually or the great Blade Runner ... which Harrison Ford hated that they wanted him to do the overdubbing. I think it makes the movie. Wow, sidetracked! Anyway ...) I watched it dubbed as there were no mouth movements I didn't even think about it until later.
I am a hater of dubbed foreign films, HATE THEM, so I instantly, once I realized it was indeed dubbed (like Jeff said by the way
), I switched to subtitles, my preferred way to, again, watch any and all foreign flicks. But yeah, like Jeff said the dubbing is pretty good. So good and well acted in-fact that I decided, for the first time in my life, to watch a non-English movie dubbed.
The reason? Well, here the sub-titles just led to too much melodrama in my ears. I mean, Asian melodrama has a sound profile and it takes a little to get use to, but I dig it most of the times. But daaaaamn, the way the chick talks in this ... very Telenovela'ish
. Like where all the ladies are so over the top in their ... enthusiasm it makes it hard to watch a serious subject matter. Not that it is the norm for Spanish stuff, but mostly I guess. I do watch another Latin show on Amazon that I have discussed here (the one that is so brutally slow it is crazy) and the vocals on that are fine.
But yeah, Jeff, spot on with the dubbing here. It is good. Very good.
Wow, I'm going to watch a dubbed movie/series. That is just too damn strange.
Edit - and I love the Dali masks!!!