If you have HBO you need to be watching the truly unhinged, supernatural epic- 30 Coins by the Spanish master of the bizarre Alex de la Iglesias. The same director who showed is Carmen Maura walking on the ceiling as a sorceress in Witching & Bitching; had us follow a crazed, disfigured clown during the last years of Spain’s Franco regime in The Last Circus and gave us Javier Bardem as a voodoo-practicing drug dealer in Mexico who meets his match when he falls for Rosie Perez as the ferocious Perdita Durango. This 8-episode series is so outrageous, creepy and fabulous it is mind-boggling.
Consider the first episode which re-enacts the crucifixion of Christ and the 30 coins given to Judas for his treachery. We see the coins scattered as Judas hangs himself and different hands scrambling for it. We also see a Swiss bank robbery where the thief is riddled with bullets but refuses to die until he delivers something to a Priest in a waiting car. It seems that there is a secret society in Rome of bishops and priests who are trying to collect all 30 coins to fulfill a scary prophecy, and will stop at nothing to get them.
Then we got to a sleepy Spanish town where a cow gives birth to a human fetus. The gorgeous vet Elena (Megan Montaner) alerts the local priest Father Vergara (Eduard Fernandez) and the married town mayor Paco (the impossibly handsome Miguel Angel Silvestre) and then things get really weird. “Baby” starts quickly growing into an oversized creature and is violently protected by a deranged farmer’s wife. The first episode is so insane you wonder if the show can keep this up, but it sure does.
In further episodes, some kids play with a Ouija board and a girl vanishes, then reappears, fiendishly changed. Elena ends up with one of the 30 coins and people and creatures keep coming after her. There is also this unspoken attraction between Elena and the mayor that is sexy and fun.
An evil mirror suddenly reflects a different dimension and sucks in the priest spitting into the world a sinister version of him. There is this outlandish section in Rome where the Priest discovers more of the nefarious conspiracy. And Elena’s husband, who has been missing and assumed dead for years, reappears at her door with no memory of where he has been. He is also the creation of an elderly witch who mouths the words she wants him to speak. I can’t even begin to tell you how nuts every episode has been but I’ve been looking forward to Monday nights ever since. There are 3 episodes left and I wait with apprehensive anticipation. I just haven’t read much online about this show and I can’t even begin to tell you how sensational it is.
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