Money Heist Part 1 & 2 Analysis

Money Heist

Created by: Alex Pina

This show has a simple plot, you can figure that out from the name of the show. By the end of the first episode in the first season, I was wondering what the remaining episodes will be about. My imagination of the show told me that I was looking at it from a narrow perspective. What baffles me the most is, how the show manages to keep us hooked for that long when we get bored by even watching some films. I figured out what they did is, they keep increasing the stakes as we keep progressing and the stakes in the beginning are shown with tension so that the scenes with more stakes are effortlessly engaging. At the beginning, we think they go to rob the bank, then they say that they'll print money. The one plot point which kept the show going for so long, is that the robbers didn't want any hostages to die. If this plot point wasn't there it would've been so difficult for the show to be this engaging. We hardly see any twists in the show, what we see are turns, plot points and they are used as cliffhangers. The turns in the story are so interesting and there are many turns the story takes, it is super dense, there is a lot of story happening which is why it feels tight in spite of it being for that long. 

Arturo's character was so irritating to watch, it was similar to watching Skyler in Breaking Bad. These characters are well nuanced and brilliantly performed to make us feel strongly against them. I'd call these 'spoil-sport characters'. Both these shows are anti-hero shows, here the good guys/cops would be the villains. We don't hate the villains because it is their job to go against our heroes and stop them but we hate these characters because we the audience are supporting the anti-heroes whereas these characters in spite of it not being their job, they try to disrupt our anti-heroes which is why I'm calling them 'spoil-sport characters'. Spoil-sport characters are a brilliant tool to make the audience feel empathetic towards the hero, we hate the spoil-sport characters so much that we start rooting them to learn a lesson and then the writers make them meet our hero, so what happens? Bingo, we are rooting for our hero!