| A Private Affair | |
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| Spanish | Un asunto privado |
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| Creative director | Teresa Fernández-Valdés |
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Producers | Amazon Prime Bambú Producciones |
| Production location | Spain |
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| Network | Amazon Prime |
| Release | 23 September 2022 (2022-09-23) |
A Private Affair (Spanish:Un asunto privado) is a Spanishperiod drama television series from Bambú Producciones with Teresa Fernández-Valdés as showrunner. Set inGalicia in the late 1940s, it is an eight-partmurder mysterycomedy drama starringAura Garrido andJean Reno. The series was released onAmazon Prime on 23 September 2022.
Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for women in a police department, Marina Quiroga, the sister of police commissioner Arturo Quiroga, witnesses a murder and sets out to investigate it on her own with the help of her loyal butler, Héctor Hugo.[1]
The series was filmed in 2020 and 2021 aroundVigo,Pontevedra,Lérez, and other locations in theRías Baixas. Initial plans to film in Madrid and Bilbao were abandoned due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[3] In November 2020, it was announced that joining Reno and Garrido in the cast would beÁngela Molina,Álex García,Gorka Otxoa,Tito Valverde,Andrés Velencoso,Pablo Molinero, Sara Sanz, Carlos Villarino, Toño Casais, Nerea Portela and Adrián Ríos.[4]
The series was released onAmazon Prime on 23 September 2022.[5]
InThe New European Eleanor Longman-Rodd reviewed the series and called it "charming" and "a breath of fresh air". and remarked upon how "it makes use of familiar detective procedural conventions” but that "this is not your typical detective drama" and the series "adds a welcome dash of campery and colour" to a genre that can often be morbid.[6]
Pat Stacey for theIrish Independent praised the performance of an "excellent" Jean Reno and described "stylish period trappings" which are "about as far removed from what we expect from the genre as it’s possible to get".[7]
