A production that shows the contrast between the customs of the countryside and the city in the most fun way.
Netflix demonstrated again that Spanish productions continue to conquer viewers. In the last few days, a new series originating from Spain has quickly climbed positions in the platform’s rankings. With a proposal that combines humor, social criticism and cultural contrasts, he has managed to engage both the public in his country and in Latin America.
The fiction is titled Animaland since its premiere it was placed in the first place in views in several countries. This 9-episode comedy-drama has managed to stand out for its narrative freshness and its ability to reflect the tensions between rural and urban, presenting characters with traditional roots facing a modern world that requires them to reinvent themselves.
Animal
Credits: Netflix.
What Animal is about, the series that is all the rage on Netflix
The plot of Animal follows Antón, a rural veterinarian in Galicibecause he is going through an economic crisis: his rural clients can no longer pay for his services, so he ends up receiving, symbolically, eggs as compensation. Faced with the impossibility of sustaining his traditional way of life, he accepts move to the city to work with his niece Uxía at a boutique pet clinic called Kawanda, where he must deal with lawsuits, “whims” and very different urban clients to farm animals.
The clash between two worlds (the austerity of the countryside and the logical aesthetics of urban consumption of pets or “dogs”) generates moments of humor, tension and reflection. Antón will have to adapt, but also preserve his professional ethics against business practices. Animal explores themes such as modernity, economic inequalities, rural identity and how human and animal relationships reveal less obvious social contradictions.
Netflix: Animal trailer
Netflix: cast of Animal
- Luis Zahera (Antón)
- Lucía Caraballo (Uxía)
- Carmen Ruiz (Sabela)
- Antonio Durán “Morris” (Vicente Andrade)
- Sergio Abelaira (secondary character)
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