Money Heist (season 1) – 8

For six episodes this is an enthralling intellectual chess match between adversaries that are equally likeable, featuring a crew of robbers who are uniformly engaging. If the plan succeeds, no one is to get hurt and no one will suffer the loss of the millions the robbers are minting for themselves. But then around episode 7, the brainy Professor turns into Harrison Ford, one of the robbers is revealed as a sadist, the plot developments become so impossible to believe and the chess match dissolves. We have to wait for season 2 to learn how the robbers get away, and I will be glad to see more of Tokyo and Nairobi and Moscow, though not so much the others, and I wish Raquel, the chief inspector, all the best.