Until about halfway through the final episode, this was richly and grippingly satisfying. Set in early Francoist Spain it dealt intriguingly with many big and interesting themes - pressure on sons of powerful families to marry and produce an heir, vicious lack of acceptance of any sense or form of gay identity, by anyone - individual acceptance, family understanding, social intolerance - ruthless and manipulative business practices, racist feelings between Spanish-speaking nations (Mexico and Spain), acceptance of forced marriages. The performances were passionately convincing without falling into the trap of grotesquery.
It was all going swimmingly until the final episode and the problem was a ludicrous rushing and very dramatically tying up of (most) loose ends in the final half-hour. The problem was there were only three episodes of 50 minutes. I felt that it needed possibly to be almost twice as long to properly and thoughtfully work out and tie up everything. Instead we lurched straight into a ridiculous, blood-spattered finale where virtually all of the main characters died - in ridiculously quick succession and leaving many unanswered questions.
Terribly and frustratingly disappointing then - but still worth seeing nevertheless.