Jumping back and forth in time does not look very great, makes the narrative too chaotic, intermittent and does not allow you to focus on a specific time epoch, as it was in the first season. It is a very controversial decision to change the style of telling the story, in the cut-into-fragments version it does not create a sense of living life, as it was with Einstein throughout most of the series. The only thing that is shown well in this way is the contrast of the epochs. The pre-Hitler world and the world of military chaos create a different range of public moods, and the artist living in them somehow reflects the current reality.
But otherwise everything is fine, Banderas plays Picasso perfectly, so far without heavy extravagances, but with oddities in his personal life. It is especially interesting to listen to critical opinions and accusations of imitations, knowing what kind of Picasso will become an art genius.
@Nikquest: And the first episode of the season about Einstein? There, too, they ran back and forth through his life, then from the second series they gradually began to move.
The third season will be dedicated to Mary Shelley, the creator of the novel about Frankenstein. It would be epic if the actress who played Shelley in The Frankenstein Chronicles was invited to the role
Why the fuck is everyone talking with an accent? It would be better to shoot in Spanish instead of clumsy English. And Picasso is played by a man who was created to play Hitler without makeup. He doesn't look a damn bit like a real Picasso. And he's also clumsy in English. Brrr from the 1st series
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9But otherwise everything is fine, Banderas plays Picasso perfectly, so far without heavy extravagances, but with oddities in his personal life. It is especially interesting to listen to critical opinions and accusations of imitations, knowing what kind of Picasso will become an art genius.