"La casa de papel" is an interesting case: a series that's written to be gripping and exciting yet at the same time doing it in all the wrong ways. It presents itself as the story of "the perfect heist" - a robbery so meticulously planned that the only way it could fall apart is if the people executing it botch their jobs really badly.
Guess what happens? Six out of the nine people involved botch their jobs badly, including the mastermind.
Fortunately, everything works out to the result of maximum suspense. Unfortunately, that happens at the cost of throwing away logic in more than one place. Not that you'd really mind if it were done ironically, or at least with a little self-awareness of the increasingly over-the-top developments. But the series insists on its own seriousness again and again, even when it has clearly gone beyond logic and went into A-Team ridiculousness.
What holds this series together is a group of talented actors, if you do not count Tokyo, who seems to know only one facial expression, very much like a female Nicholas Cage, except when she's having a breakdown. All the others sell their scenes convincingly
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