“The Asunta Affair” is hot on the heels of “My Little Reindeer” in the Top Netflix Viewings. Have you completed this survey? Here are four other series that you might like…
Number 2 in the top views on Netflix, The Asunta Affair tickles the success of My Little Reindeer in the ranking of successful series on the platform at the moment. Based on a real news story which aroused great emotion in Spain, this fiction in 6 episodes is part of the true crime genre, very popular with the platform’s subscribers.
Fans of sordid stories, true crimes and other terrifying news stories have, it seems, responded to this Hispanic series, which garners a rating of 3.4 out of 5 from spectators on AlloCiné.
What is the Asunta Affair?
Created by Ramón Campos (to whom we owe Les demoiselles du telephone), The Asunta Affair looks back on the murder of Asunta Basterra in 2013, one of the most atrocious cases to occur in Spain and which moved the entire country .
This twelve-year-old girl from China was allegedly killed by her own adoptive parents, Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra, a respected couple in the community. This sordid news story hit the headlines, particularly during the highly publicized trial.
Over the course of six episodes, the series, carried by Candela Peña (All About My Mother, Hierro) and Tristán Ulloa (Warrior Nun, Berlin), looks back on the tragic events, the past of the couple and Asunta, and the trial, while giving food for thought on the guilt of the two protagonists.
Did you like The Asunta Affair? Then you will like…
With the series The Asunta Affair, Ramón Campos highlights a monstrous news story that moved all of Spain. Fans of true crime and fiction and documentaries on current events responded to this gripping mini-series, which plays hard on suspense, which asks a lot of questions and which is disconcerting with its relentless coldness.
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If you liked The Asunta Affair and have already finished the series, you can obviously dive into the Netflix catalog to devour numerous films and documentary series, but you can also discover 4 other fictions of the same genre, which are based on news stories and other real atrocious cases, and which are also mini-series, which you can binge quickly.
Devoured by Flames (available on Netflix)
Written by Laura Sarmiento and directed by Jorge Torregrossa and Laura Mañá, with Úrsula Corberó, Quim Gutiérrez and José Manuel Poga.
May 2017. The charred remains of Pedro, a police officer, are found in a burned car at the Foix reservoir, in Barcelona. The discovery quickly arouses public interest, especially when the investigation begins to reveal a web of toxic relationships, lies, violence and sexual scandals involving Pedro and two other police officers: his partner Rosa and the ex-boyfriend of the latter, Albert. The series is based on the true story of Rosa Peral and the “Municipal Police Crime” case.
Unbelievable (available on Netflix)
Created by Susannah Grant, with Kaitlyn Dever, Toni Collette and Merritt Wever.
The true story of Marie, a teenager accused by her relatives and investigators of having lied about having been raped by an intruder at her home. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, detectives Grace Rasmussen and Karen Duvall meet while investigating two eerily similar rapes and team up to catch a potential serial rapist.
In their eyes (available on Netflix)
Created by Ava DuVernay, with Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse, Jharrel Jerome and Marquis Rodriguez.
Inspired by a true story that fascinated America, In Their Eyes chronicles the infamous case of the five teenagers of color, nicknamed the “Central Park Five”, wrongly accused of rape.
This four-part miniseries follows the five Harlem teenagers (Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise) over 25 years, from their interrogation following the incident in the spring of 1989, through their acquittal in 2002, and until the damages paid to them by the City of New York in 2014.
Laetitia (available on Netflix)
Created by Antoine Lacomblez and Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, with Marie Colomb, Sophie Breyer and Yannick Choirat.
This Franco-Belgian mini-series returns to the Laëtitia Perrais affair, far from being a simple news item, which moved the country and highlighted a silent France, prone to ordinary violence.
The series “The Asunta Affair” is available on Netflix.