Collect ’spherical, previous pals, for it’s time to recall the large, horrible occasion of that night time way back — that night time once we swore a solemn oath to bury this secret, and but now, by some means, maybe 20 full years later, the horror of it nonetheless impacts us all! Why should each group have a prodigal troublemaker whose return dredges up these previous reminiscences? Can we not go away the previous prior to now? Perhaps our recollections differ — we will confront this in flashback, or possibly simply within the pounding rain. The primary one who cries and says “However she was our good friend!” loses.
“Previous Lies,” a six-part Spanish drama (obtainable solely dubbed, weirdly) on Hulu, is the newest swirly thriller a couple of group of now-grown ladies haunted by their teenage pasts. “Lies,” although, is extra frank than a lot of its brethren, extra streamlined and grounded.
Rita (Elena Anaya) is a well known movie director who reluctantly returns to her hometown, Alicante, Spain, to settle her mom’s property. Regardless of preliminary dodges and awkwardness, she winds up folded again into her highschool clique, beginning with a brittle feast. The totally different sorts of hugs Rita exchanges with every of those former pals is likely one of the juiciest, most detailed scenes I’ve seen in ages — many years of longing and disappointment depicted within the twist of 1 shoulder blade.
The reunion turns into much more strained when the police establish the stays of Mati, a classmate who vanished throughout a senior journey to Mallorca. Mati’s youthful sister, Paula (Irene Escolar), is likely one of the investigators, although it’s exhausting to think about how she finds time for police work when she is so busy scowling and chewing gum. Paula is satisfied these ladies know greater than they’re telling her, and he or she’ll comb via dwelling movies the ladies shot as teenagers to show it.
A part of what makes “Previous Lies” intriguing, past its interesting chicness and beautiful setting, is that the central thriller shouldn’t be one agreed-upon lie. The ladies every have totally different suspicions, totally different secrets and techniques they needed to maintain again within the day or preserve now. The present is a saga not about simmering teenage blood lust or the freaky, warped horrors of girldom, however somewhat in regards to the pure contours of regrets, the bittersweetness of relating to one’s youthful passions.
