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Not a complete waste of time: Netflix’s La Palma reviewed 

But Harlan Coben’s Missing You is

James Delingpole James Delingpole
Wave goodbye to plausibility: a scene from Netflix’s La Palma COURTESY OF NETFLIX
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 01 February 2025
issue 01 February 2025

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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