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Mary & Mike

2018 · 1 season

A chilling true-crime drama that contrasts suburban family life with cold-blooded political violence, keeping you tense and unsettled.

Overview: Mary and Mike are a couple of elite agents from the Chilean secret police, DINA. Their job is to eliminate opposition leaders who from abroad articulate resistance to the fierce military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In her public life, Mary is a writer and she relates with the most outstanding members of Santiago's cultural life. Mike, is a talented "gringo" for electronics. They live with their children Cony and Simon in the suburbs of Santiago where they tend to give crowded parties. But as they celebrate, in the backyard of their home they torture, murder and experiment with weapons of mass destruction.

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: corruption
violence
betrayal
power
deception
Places: suburbs
big city
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	5
Horror	6
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	8
Darkness	9
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, crime
Created by: Esteban Larraín
Written by: Natacha Caravia, Julio Jorquera, Luis Barrales, Luis E. Langlemey
Starring: Mariana Loyola, Andrés Rillón, Consuelo Carreño, Elías Collado, Luciana Echeverría, Hugo Medina, Mariana Prat, Julio Milostich
Length: 1 seasons, 6 episodes, 52 min each
Network: Chilevisión
Country: Argentina, Chile
Languages: English, Spanish, Italian

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