Inside Prime Video’s Narco Sub Series ‘Operation Black Tide’
25.02.2022 - 16:47
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Prime Video from Feb. 25, “Operation Black Tide” puts faces and character backstories to one of the most epic of feats in the annals of narco-trafficking.The four-part Spanish-Portuguese drama-thriller also says much about the ambitions of the U.S.
streamer: Its energetic targeting of local markets, and pursuit of tried and tested talent to explore new genres with notable production ambitions. Following, four key pointers to the latest Amazon series from Spain:Capturing an Epic Narco FeatDrug sub actioner “Operation Black Tide” is certainly one example.
It hews closely to a dramatic real-life event: the detection on Nov. 24, 2019, off the fjord-indented coast of Galicia, North-West Spain, of a flimsy 70-foot fiberglass semi-submersible, fabricated in a clandestine shipyard deep in the Amazon rainforest.
On board were three tons of cocaine, worth an estimated street value of €123 million ($138 million), and three crew members who had piloted the drug sub from Brazil’s Macapá across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain.Daniel Calparsoro, Spain’s king of kinetic action thrillers (“Combustion,” “Hasta el Cielo”), compares the 3,500-mile odyssey to Magellan’s or the Kon-Tiki. Conditions on the sub were in many ways worse, the three men living for nearly a month in a cramped cabin, darkness, the stench of 20,000 litres of fuel and the only toilet facility, a plastic bag.“We tell it as it happened, and the case has been heavily researched.
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