Lies and Deceit

The two leads picked opposite corners of the same case

Before Mentiras finished its weekly run on ATRESplayer Premium, Ángela Cremonte and Javier Rey were doing press as if the accusation were real. Cremonte told Antena 3 she defends literature teacher Laura Munar "a muerte." Rey, on the same platform, said that as a viewer he would stand with surgeon Xavier Vera and think the accused man was the victim. Vertele recorded him calling the audience the only judge. That split is the column. latestnetflix.com's view is that The Spanish remake of ITV's Liar asks who is lying after a dinner date.Its stars refused to share a verdict. ,

Cremonte also told Vertele this was the first audiovisual role she was offered without a casting. She watched the British original, studied it, and still called Mentiras very faithful. She said the writers changed beats that did not feel believable on Spanish ground, sometimes minutes before action. Rey refused to watch Liar at all. He wanted Xavier built from zero. Cremonte hoped viewers would doubt if the work was good. She also said she feels fury more than responsibility playing Laura, "an anger that invades my small body and connects me with the urge to fight injustice." , ,

The setup is blunt. Laura, a high school literature teacher in Palma de Mallorca, recently split from her longtime partner Iván. She has dinner with Xavier, a noted surgeon on the island and the father of one of her students. She wakes up nauseous, alone, with a hole in her memory, and comes to believe he drugged and raped her. He says the night was consensual. Atresmedia Studios' own synopsis admits the police file shrinks to a credibility fight. The teacher has a record of harassment complaints and psychological trouble on paper. The surgeon has the respectable job. Laura's sister Cata, an anesthetist in Xavier's hospital, helps her file the report. Inspectors Daniela Bauzá and Víctor Silva take the case. Frustrated with the courts, Laura starts acting on her own. ,

Mallorca instead of grey Britain

Cremonte's other talking point was geography. She told Vertele the British original sits in grey weather. The Spanish version is a Mallorca explosion of color against what the characters feel. Sonia Martínez, Atresmedia's fiction chief and an executive producer with Curro Novallas, said the series could not be made without the island. Antena 3 listed Cala Deià, Portocolom, Es Trenc, and Palma among the stops when the unit landed in late November 2019. Panorama Audiovisual had already logged a Madrid and Mallorca shoot of six 50-minute episodes in the last quarter of 2019. Norberto López Amado and Novallas directed. Marina Velázquez, Javier San Román, Tatiana Rodríguez, and Camino López wrote, with Novallas coordinating. , ,

The rest of the company is familiar to Spanish viewers who then found the show under a new English title. Manuela Velasco, of REC, plays Cata. Paco Tous, later of Money Heist, is inspector Silva. Miquel Fernández plays Iván. The miniseries premiered on ATRESplayer Premium on 19 April 2020 and closed on 24 May. Antena 3 ran it free-to-air from 12 January 2022. What's on Netflix dated the global Lies and Deceit drop to 15 November 2021. TMDB keeps the original name Mentiras, six episodes, status ended. , ,