The New Netflix fantasy-thriller series Feria: The Darkest Light was created by writer Augustin Martinez and screenwriter, producer and director Carlos Montero, who has quite the hot streak going at the streamer with Elite, its spinoff Elite: Short Stories, and The Mess You Leave Behind. In Feria>, A pair of sisters are left in the lurch when their seemingly mild-mannered parents emerge as the prime suspects in a mysterious mass death event that shakes their small town to its core.
Opening Shot: The whitewashed buildings of a picaresque Andalusian town are seen in the highlands outside Seville. They stretch around the base of a mountaintop dominated by the ruins of a long-shuttered mine.
The Gist: The first episode of Feria: The Darkest Light begins with a flashback to 1975. There’s that mine again, and the camera drifts into the darkness of its main access tunnel. A man is in there, chained to the rocks. He looks resigned to his fate, if a little salty about it. He’s consumed by a massive fireball, and then it’s 1995.
Budding model Eva (Ana Tomeno) and her younger sister Sofia (Carla Campra) are excited to attend the annual Summer festival out by the town’s reservoir; it’ll be Eva’s last before she departs Feria for university. But once their parents Pablo (Ernest Villegas) and Elena (Marta Nieta) have seen the girls off, two characters show up at the family home who can only be described as unsavory. A man in a wheelchair, grinning like a death’s head skull, and his equally unsettling companion. What are these two up to? At the festival, Sofia goes for a swim in the reservoir, where an inky, strangely supernatural force snakes around her in the water.