
Netflix is the television equivalent of pasta and ready-made pesto: a slightly desperate but acceptable enough stand-by when you’ve got home late, you haven’t time to prepare anything more nutritious and at least it fills the gap without too much pain or fuss.
It is an adamantine rule of television that foreign-language dramas are always superior
La Palma is classic Netflix.

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