‘s Fred) is $15 million in the hole to loan sharks. Fearing for her life, she flees to rural Spain with her teenage daughter, Kate , and mother, Julia . Neither of them are thrilled to have their lives upended at a moment’s notice, and once there, they’re only temporarily out of danger anyway.series are stressful for its characters, they’re downright relaxing for us as viewers.
Gala fares little better. She makes her first enemy before she even hits the town square, by destroying an entire day’s haul of grapes from the local vineyards when she crashes her car into a tractor driven by Amat . Meanwhile, the biggest laughs come from Julia. Maura plays her as less sultry than playful, an incorrigible flirt who walks into a confessional booth to admit that she’s sinned a lot but, “unfortunately, not that much lately.” She’s a woman who enjoys prodding at life’s rules just to see what happens — with occasionally bittersweet consequences, as revealed in intermittent flashbacks.
Kate’s one major storyline in six hourlong episodes revolves around her frustration that once people know she’s trans, “everything is always about that.” This is ironic, seeing asdoesn’t know what else to do with her either, despite giving her a girlfriend , a new possible crush and a hobby .