They include but are no means limited to: men returning from the dead, possessed little girls, gigantic John Carpenter-esque man-spiders, haunted mirrors, and satanic witches. Vergara will only reveal his knowledge of the plague upon them in small doses as sights so strange they can only be the product of a web of supernatural malevolence begin popping up with shocking regularity. Elena leaves the child in the care of a recently bereft older couple but only two days later they’ve become disturbed by the child, which grows four or five feet in height overnight. He’s quick to dismiss the events as the product of overactive imaginations, but Elena can sense he’s lying. Elena the veterinarian (Megan Montaner) goes looking for help after delivering the baby, first from Paco ( Miguel Ángel Silvestre), the Himbo mayor of her small town, then from newly appointed priest Father Vergara ( Eduard Fernández). The man who robbed the Swiss bank? A patsy for a religious sect with a single-minded goal: collecting the 30 coins paid to Judas to betray Jesus, as depicted in the deliciously vulgar credits.
30 COINS SEASON 1 EPISODE 4 SERIES
The three openings of “30 Coins” quickly come into sharper focus as the baby born of a cow matures in the series premiere. In this specific regard “30 Coins” is sort of the crowning work of their theological texts, a dense and ebulliently blasphemous mystery, and it's stuffed with more incident than the entire run of some telenovelas.
It often feels like Vatican II was a cover-up to make it seem as though religious order was loosening its restrictions on the world while behind closed doors more nefarious things were transpiring in secret. As in the work of those authors, the universe occasionally opens up and swallows a few mortals, but it’s usually got something to do with the God of the New Testament than inter-dimensional octopi. They peddle a Catholic version of the Cosmic Horrors of William Hope Hodgson and H.P. “30 Coins” is the kind of thing I can imagine de la Iglesia and his longtime co-writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría having dreamt of making from the time of their feature debut, 1993’s “Mutant Action.” Over the years they’ve created a world recognizably and uniquely theirs, ruled by secret societies and beset by biblical chaos their style a crispy plait of Luis Buñuel and Alex Cox. Álex de la Iglesia exalts in playing the Devil. And finally a cow gives birth to a human fetus in a little town deep in the Spanish hinterland. Then the magnificently depraved opening credits depict the crucifixion of Jesus Christ while cackling Romans laugh at his torment and a guilty Judas flees the scene to go hang himself. The first has a man robbing a Swiss bank, getting filled with bullets by security but not dying until he’s in the getaway car when an intense priest in sunglasses removes a charmed necklace from the culprit.
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