“The medieval adventure series on Prime Video about one of the most epic and legendary historical figures,” reads our headline. Is it enough to encourage you to continue reading and discover our recommendation? What if we add generous doses of blood, violence, sense of honor and the guarantee that it is one of the best Spanish series on Prime Video? Draw your sword!
In 2020, José Velasco and Luis Arranz dared to the television adaptation of one of the most famous legends in our history, narrated from his childhood to his legendary exploits on the battlefield in a story of adventure, love, intrigue, betrayal and struggle between those who hold power and those who possess authentic authority.
‘El Cid’one of the best Prime Video series in Spain, tells the story of the hero Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, one of the most mysterious and complex characters in the history of Spain. The plot of the series takes place in the Eleventh centuryone of the most fascinating times in the history of Spain, where Christians, Arabs and Jews lived together in the Iberian Peninsulafacing in wars and forging alliances.
Jaime Lorente (Denver in Netflix’s ‘La casa de papel’) becomes Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, also known as “Ruy”, in one of the most entertaining and exciting series in the platform’s catalogue. And with those palace intrigues that hook us so much. They accompany him, among others, José Luis García-Pérez, as King Ferdinand I ‘The Great’; Elia Galera, like Queen Sancha ‘the Beautiful’; Carlos Bardem, like the Count of León; Pablo Alvarez, as Orduño, Ruy’s antagonist; and Ginés García Millán, like King Ramiro of Navarra.
We could say that ‘El Cid’ by Jaime Lorente It is one of the best series to travel to the past but, in reality, one of the main keys to this ambitious production lies in the modern approach to certain themes that have become universal classics. “Modernity” It is, in fact, one of the key concepts of ‘El Cid’, according to Jaime Lorente in an interview for Fotogramas. Another one that can give you a good clue of what you are going to find is “patriotism”.
‘El Cid’whose First season is composed of only 5 episodeslike the second season, is an ideal proposal to combine with the medieval adventure and fantasy film filmed in Basque that broke all records and with the best Spanish epic series in history to ensure a good binge of national sword cinema .
Jorge is an expert in movies, series and comics. His favorite genres are horror and science fiction, the perfect balance between the thunderous scream of the slasher and the disturbing silence of space and, although he flirts with auteur cinema in search of that hidden gem far from the mainstream, he does not hide, His thing is commercial cinema from Marvel, Star Wars, DC and Pixar.
This restless journalist discovered the mysticism of ‘Twin Peaks’ a few years ago and, since then, it has been just another concept trapped inside David Lynch’s head. When he manages to escape from the Black Lodge, he revisits the filmography of the master Carpenter, loses himself again between the pages of Moore and Gibbons’ ‘Watchmen’ or sets out in search of new emotions in miniseries format.
After his brief stint in media such as TVE, RNE and the TV and communication section of La Razón, Jorge has spent more than a decade in the delirious world of advertising agencies, where he has had the opportunity to be part of various communication teams. which have allowed him to participate in soirees, events, junkets and various efforts with performers of the stature of Antonio de la Torre, Jared Harris, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo and Christina Hendricks. He arrived at FOTOGRAMAS in 2022, where he managed to carve out a niche as an editor to write about the most popular series, the best Alfred Hitchcock films or everything related to franchises, reboots, prequels, sequels, sequels and various nonsense of the moment, returning from This forms his passion for journalism and cinema.
Jorge has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, in addition to being a director from the RTVE Institute, where he acquired notions of pre-production, production and post-production of audiovisuals.
