Juan Carlos Messier
Cruz
Stolen Away
2020
Ended • 1 Season • 11 Episodes
Overview
Searching for his kidnapped daughter, Antonio sets off a series of events affecting scores of people when he maneuvers to be sent to prison in Colombia.
Seasons
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 11 episodes
- First aired
- Jan 14, 2020
Cast
12 people
Reviews
4 min readA father's last bet
I know this groove. Desperate parent. Criminal underworld.
A plan that turns meaner than revenge. Stolen Away, also called Perdida, runs it hard enough that, for a stretch, you stop noticing how familiar it is. Grooves wear smooth for a reason. This Spanish-Colombian series is not a new shape.
It grabs you by the collar and holds on even when the stitching pops.
The premise is simple, and brutal. Antonio Santos, played by Daniel Grao, is a man hollowed by grief. He gets himself thrown into a Colombian prison to hunt the man who kidnapped his daughter, Soledad, years earlier.
How he gets inside, smuggling drugs, staging a bust, matters less than why. This is a father's Hail Mary. Life and death sit on the table.
So does the slow wearing-down of a person. The series cuts Antonio's prison days against flashbacks of the kidnapping. In weaker hands that would be a gimmick.
Here it matches how trauma actually behaves. The past is not recalled. It is relived, in jagged overlapping scraps.
Grao is why the thing does not fall over. Early on, Antonio, newly locked up, stands in the yard with a face like controlled panic. Grao does not play the fear.
He plays the work of hiding it. The jaw tightens a fraction too far. The eyes dart not for an exit but for a target.
You do not clock it as acting until you are already leaning in. The show gives him chances to go big. He is forced to fight another inmate, and the camera stays on his knuckles, bloodied and shaking, not from the hit so much as from seeing what he has become.
Audience Opinions
Limited evidence
"Anchored by a desperate father's journey into a dangerous penitentiary, this suspense drama grips audiences with its psychological tension and high-stakes mystery."
Viewers drawn to the series focus on its emotionally charged premise, following a father determined to unravel the truth about his missing daughter by entering a Colombian prison. Audience reactions praise the focus on character psychology and sudden plot twists over pure spectacle, though [latestnetflix.com]() observes that the unrelenting bleakness and heavy prison setting may prove draining for some viewers.
What viewers praise
- Tense Premise Tense Premise
- Description: The trailer highlights a Description: The trailer highlights a compelling, high-stakes mystery centered on family devotion and covert danger.
Common complaints
- Oppressive Atmosphere Oppressive Atmosphere
- Description: The somber prison backdrop Description: The somber prison backdrop and pervasive tension create a distinctly heavy viewing experience.
Recommended for
Fans of gritty crime dramas Viewers who enjoy missing-person mysteries Audiences drawn to psychological thrillers
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThey spent six months building a Colombian prison. Spanish prime time shrugged.
Atresmedia wrapped Perdida in September 2019 after 23 weeks across Valencia and Bogota. The prison they called La Brecha ate more than 1,200 square meters. More than 3,100 of the 3,630 extras worked in Colombia. Over 100 actors from Spain, Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba. Three hundred crew. Natxo Lopez created it from a story by David Oliva and Ruth Garcia. Inaki Penafiel, David Ulloa, and Rafa Montesinos directed 11 episodes 
. Daniel Grao plays Antonio Santos, a Valencian father who swallows cocaine pellets so Bogota customs will dump him in the same jail as Cruz, latestnetflix.com argues, the man who took his five-year-old off a beach a decade earlier .
The casting hook that traveled Latin America is Ana Maria Orozco as Milena. Betty la fea, in a Spanish prison thriller, playing against the telenovela memory . Adriana Paz is the public defender Angelita. Carolina Lapausa is the ex-wife who follows him. Fernando Solorzano is Quitombo. Veronica Velasquez is the teenage Soledad who is, viewers kept asking, based on a real kidnapping? The Cinemaholic checked. The writers invented it .
Antena 3 put episode one in prime time on January 14, 2020 after a January 10 Atresplayer Premium sneak. El Comercio says the 11 episodes were shot across more than 120 locations in Valencia and Bogota . 1,742,000 viewers, 11.5 percent share. Cuatro's La isla de las tentaciones did 17.2 percent the same night. FormulaTV called the debut discreet. The share slid toward 5.9 percent by mid-March. The finale on March 24 managed 6.5 percent . The first trailer does not hide the method. A voice asks whether Antonio understands he was stopped with a kilo and a half of cocaine in his stomach . Decider's call on the English drop was STREAM IT, with a warning that episode one could still go off the rails . IMDb holds the series at 7.1 from a few thousand votes, which is the score a Tuesday flop is not supposed to keep 
.
Netflix renamed it Stolen Away for English territories because a 2018 film called Perdida was already on the service, Decider noted, and dropped the series in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America on June 5, 2020, then worldwide on October 23 . The second life is the actual gossip. A show that lost Tuesday night in Spain to a dating reality found a catalog audience as a father-in-prison thriller. No season 2. The set got torn down. Betty stayed in the credits.
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