Money Heist 2019? ( Le casa de papel)

Money Heist or “Le Casa De Papel” is one of the most exciting tv shows that I’ve watched in a while. It gets your blood rushing and keeps you wondering what will happen next, fearing for the life of those who are organizing the heist (weird, I know). Money heist is a tv show that started in 2017. It’s originally created by Netflix in the Spanish language but has also been dubbed in English. The very first episode is what gets you hooked to the show. Spoiler alert for those who haven’t watched it yet.

 

The season starts with a man who is waiting outside for a woman to take her away from the motel that she lives in. Then the introduction starts. A narrative by the woman who was being taken away from all the things that she’s done. But for one last time she’ll commit a crime and live her life to the fullest. Her name is Tokyo. The class starts and everyone is given a name after a city, so that there’s discretion and no personal affiliation with each other. There’s Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Nairobi, Denver, Rio, Oslo and Helsinki. The person who’s leading the heist is known as The Professor or his alter ego to the police as Salva. Salva is short for Salvador, which he names himself after the artist Salvador Dali, who’s masks they use to hide their faces for the heist. Mind=Blown. Anyway, there are 8 people who are operating the heist (minus the professor). The professor is their backend information control to keep a check on everything outside the heist. 

Now begins the heist. They move into the Royal Mint of Spain strategically, knowing that they have leverage over the special forces as the  daughter of the British ambassador is on a field trip. Berlin is the head of the heist happening inside the Royal Mint. They show the first episode as if they were going to get a few million euros and run out the main entrance and get caught but it was part of a bigger plan. But they go back inside, seeming to be “stuck” in The Royal Mint. As the plot starts to unveil they show that the professor starts to become a friend of the negotiating head of the heist, who is an abused woman and an easy target. During all this time they do no harm whatsoever to the hostages and print money of their own as long as they are in there. They get most of the hostages on their side and within sometime they get the media audience on their side too. One of the hostages get shot and they call in the paramedics, The Professor uses that as leverage to fix a microphone in one of the negotiators glasses while seducing the head of negotiation. 

On The Professor’s end, he tried to fix a few loose ends that were meant to be done before the heist started. Those few frames make your heart beat faster as it seems that The Professors identity would  be revealed and all of the heist would go down the drain. Tokyo, Rio and Berlin’s name’s are the only ones the police find. Raquel, head of negotiation suspects The Professor (Salva to him) quite a few times and is proven wrong. They eventually start to fall in love with each other, which causes difficulties on both ends. 

The police find the house in which the heist was initially being planned but it slowly starts to unveil that The Professor had been scattering evidence which would lead them to a dead end. During the time The Professor is tying loose ends, Berlin doesn’t get a checkup call that they agreed to every 6 hours, and everyone starts getting impatient. It seems as though their plan is falling apart. When everyone starts loosing their minds, Tokyo’s fuse is the first to go off, and she tries to kill Berlin, who’s keeping the heist together. That angers him and he sends her off to the police. The Professor, still trying to keep the heist together on his end pulls Tokyo out of the hands of the police and wasn’t able to call her to give her instructions to safety. So Tokyo finds her way back into the Royal Mint.

During this time Raquel accuses her partner of being a mole which causes them to split. He figures out that Salva, the guy she’s been seeing, is The Professor, but before he could say anything his car crashes and he’s in a state of coma. 

Raquel believes that The Professor had planted the car crash and plans a trap. To check whether it’s a trap or not, the Professor plans a small chaotic stage show full of clowns to cause distraction in the hospital and see if Raquel’s partner is out of the coma or not. He later has a lunch date with Raquel and forgets to take the bright orange clown hair off his coat before he sees her. She sees that and figures out he’s The Professor and is later blamed that she might be planning this whole heist with him and is kicked off the task force. She starts interrogating him alone and he eventually frees himself and aborts the plan. She finds his heist spot none the less, and tries to hurt him but her emotions get in the way. He explains to her why he’s conducting the heist and convinces her enough that their side becomes one. 

The rest of them try to dig their way out and eventually find The Professor at the end of the tunnel. Relieved, some dead, make their way out, taking all that they could within 3 days. While Raquel maintains her dignity and the criminals their pride, everything comes to a rest. Raquel, after one year, finds her way to The Professor. And that’s where the season ends.

So after looking at how perfectly that’ve executed the series, they’ve planned to make a 3^rd season. It scares me and excites me as they ended it so beautifully, that making a sequel to it might ruin they whole essence of the TV show. But who knows, maybe it’ll be better that season 1 and 2. We’ll have to wait and watch.