The Pack (Amazon Prime Chile) S01: A-

It was only about a week, but felt like more time since we graded a series A. But this girls fighting to be heard, is another Latin American release from Amazon and another one from Chile. The President was average, but this drama is everything but average.

A private school in Santiago, where middle class and upper class families enroll their children, is under protest by a group of female students that demand being heard over the accusations made by several girls against Ossandón (played y Marcelo Alonso) the drama teacher who recorder the girls while doing castings for his productions. This videos were sold in the dark web as child pornography as the girls were asked to touch themselves and make some sounds for the camera.

Father Belmar (played by Francisco Reyes) the school's principal insist that they have no proof that the professor abused his power over the girls. The situation escalates when Blanca (played by Antonia Giesen) the leader of the protestors disappears. Two female detectives Olivia and Carla (played by Antonia Zegers and Maria Gracia Omegna) take over the case.

On an independent police search an unidentified female body is found. Elisa (played by Daniela Vega) is ordered to work with Olivia and Carla, as the body she found matches the description of Blanca. This will unravel a mystery bigger than they ever imagined. As the criminals are following orders from an online hacker that calls himself The Wolf, leader of the pack. A group of men, that target women for being women. The wolf believes that women manipulate men and lie to them in order to get what they want, and that they also provoque men sexually and later they complain if a man tries something with them.

The Pack starts off as your typical murder mystery series, but still strong enough to catch you from the first episode. But as the episodes go by and we discover that this is much than a bunch of teens who don't know what they're doing, realizing what the pack really means, the show takes a more macabre feeling to the spectator.

For me the feminist subject is hard to play, or to engage. Most of the time they fall into cliches. But this story might have been told before, but it doesn't feel like you are watching the same series or movie all over again. The way it's told, the power in the actresses performance, the macabre wider plan of the crime. This series would hook you up right till the end. Halfway thru it I thought that this was a miniseries, but just as in life when one door closes a bunch open up. The same happens with The Pack. This three bad ass detectives might have closed one case, but they really have no idea what are they getting themselves into.

As in other teen dramas, here Celeste (played by Paula Luchsinger) Blanca's sister decides to take matters into her own hands, as she grows restless over how slow the process of investigating her sister's disappearance is going. But this is not a teen drama and things don't go exactly as planned for Celeste. Paula gives one of the most powerful performance ins the series, the same goes to Mariana Di Girolamo who plays Sofía her girlfriend. This two girls makes us really angry about everything that is going on at that school, with that principal, the other parents and of course the police.

Chile gave me everything with this show, I really enjoy it if they keep this up Amazon has a good opportunity of winning market in South America before the imminent arrival of Disney+ and HBOmax.