Money Heist

A criminal planner recruits a team for a robbery ambitious enough to become a public spectacle. Money Heist follows the operation from both inside and outside, where keeping the plan intact becomes increasingly difficult once human beings have to carry it out.

The Professor's preparation supplies one kind of pleasure: a move that appears reckless can reveal a calculation behind it. The crew supply another, less orderly kind. Pride, fear and attachment create problems that cannot all have been settled on a diagram.

It is a heightened thriller with a substantial appetite for melodrama. The larger the operation becomes, the more belief some reversals require. The characters' relationships are often doing more work than the literal plausibility of the scheme.

The Spanish series is an entertaining choice when you want a heist with time to know the people causing trouble within it. Lupin is the lighter, more individual version of elaborate criminal ingenuity. Money Heist makes the team itself one of the Professor's least predictable variables.