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A Private Affair (TV series)

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A Private Affair
SpanishUn asunto privado
Genre
Created by
  • Teresa Fernández-Valdés
  • Ramón Campos
  • Gema R. Neira
Directed by
Creative directorTeresa Fernández-Valdés
Starring
Country of originSpain
Original languageSpanish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
  • Ramón Campos
  • Gema R. Neira
ProducersAmazon Prime
Bambú Producciones
Production locationSpain
Original release
NetworkAmazon Prime
Release23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

A Private Affair (Spanish: Un asunto privado) is a Spanish period drama television series from Bambú Producciones with Teresa Fernández-Valdés as showrunner. Set in Galicia in 1953, it is an eight-part murder mystery comedy drama starring Aura Garrido and Jean Reno. The series was released on Amazon Prime on 23 September 2022.

Synopsis

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Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for women in a police department, Marina Quiroga, the sister of police commissioner Arturo Quiroga, witnesses a murder and sets out to investigate it on her own with the help of her loyal butler, Héctor Hugo.[1]

Cast

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Production

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The series was filmed in 2020 and 2021 around Vigo, Pontevedra, Lérez, and other locations in the Rías Baixas. Initial plans to film in Madrid and Bilbao were abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] In November 2020, it was announced that joining Reno and Garrido in the cast would be Ángela Molina, Álex García, Gorka Otxoa, Tito Valverde, Andrés Velencoso, Pablo Molinero, Sara Sanz, Carlos Villarino, Toño Casais, Nerea Portela and Adrián Ríos.[4]

Release

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The series was released on Amazon Prime on 23 September 2022.[5]

Reception

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In The New European Eleanor Longman-Rodd reviewed the series and called it "charming" and "a breath of fresh air". and remarked upon how "it makes use of familiar detective procedural conventions” but that "this is not your typical detective drama" and the series "adds a welcome dash of campery and colour" to a genre that can often be morbid.[6]

Pat Stacey for the Irish Independent praised the performance of an "excellent" Jean Reno and described "stylish period trappings" which are "about as far removed from what we expect from the genre as it’s possible to get".[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Así es 'Un asunto privado', el glamuroso policiaco que borra los límites de Amazon y Bambú" [This is 'A private matter', the glamorous police that erases the limits of Amazon and Bambú]. FormulaTV.com (in Spanish). 23 March 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  2. ^ Palenzuela, Fernando S. (16 September 2022). "Aura Garrido ('Un asunto privado'): "Marina y Amelia Folch no se parecen, de carácter son totalmente opuestas"". FormulaTV.
  3. ^ "Bambú extenderá hasta marzo su rodaje en Pontevedra de una serie para Amazon" [Bambú will extend until March its filming in Pontevedra of a series for Amazon]. El Español (in Spanish). 12 November 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  4. ^ "'Un asunto privado', la primera serie de Bambú en Amazon Prime Video, anuncia su reparto" ['A Private Matter', the first Bamboo series on Amazon Prime Video, announces its cast]. Diez Minutos (in Spanish). 23 November 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  5. ^ "'Un asunto privado', la serie grabada en Vigo y Pontevedra, ya tiene fecha de estreno". El Español (in Spanish). 23 June 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  6. ^ Longman-Rodd, Eleanor (10 November 2022). "A new kind of TV detective (sort of…)". The Nee Eurorpean. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  7. ^ Stacey, Pat (16 September 2022). "Pat Stacey's weekend TV picks: Serial killer thriller puts a period spin on things". Retrieved 28 April 2025.
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