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Club de Cuervos · Season 1 · Netflix

Club de Cuervos Season 1

Club de Cuervos Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.0/10. 13 episodes on Netflix from 7 August 2015.

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BollyMeter7.0/1080% on Rotten Tomatoes from 5 critics and an 84% audience score; historically notable as the first major Spanish-language Netflix original, with critics citing its entertaining sibling rivalry premise despite uneven execution.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Club de Cuervos Season 1 debuted on Netflix in August 2015 as the platform's first significant Spanish-language original series, a distinction that loaded the show with historical weight it was perhaps not fully equipped to carry. Creators Gary Alazraki and Michael Lam built a sibling-rivalry comedy around the fictional Cuervos de Nuevo Toledo football club, with Luis Gerardo Mendez's Chava and Mariana Trevino's Isabel as the warring heirs. Rotten Tomatoes registered 80% positive from a small critic sample of five; IMDb audiences landed substantially higher at 8.2 out of 10. Critical consensus held that the show was entertaining without being as sharp as its premise promised - TheWrap noted it 'ought to be more fun than it is' - but the cultural specificity of Mexican football and its class politics gave the show an identity beyond the comedy framework.

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The Room

80%critics positive · n=58.2/10IMDb audience
  • “Even if you don't speak Spanish or you're not a soccer fan, it's still a series worth watching.”
    Common Sense Media
  • “Club de Cuervos could be the beginning of modern day television in Mexico.”
    Letras Libres

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Episode 17.2

    The premiere kills the Iglesias patriarch with efficient economy and immediately drops Chava and Isabel into the power vacuum. The sibling dynamic is established with comedy that skews toward character absurdity over joke-writing, which is the show's sustainable mode.

    The moment: Isabel's instant competence vs. Chava's instant incompetence - the show's central comic engine firing on its first lap.

    “Even if you don't speak Spanish or you're not a soccer fan, it's still a series worth watching.” - Common Sense Media