The Mexican series that everyone is watching on Netflix: it is a phenomenon and without promotion from the platform

It does not have a Spanish trailer and there is no trace of it in the press materials center of Netflix, however, and against all odds, the series Accidente has found a place among the service's subscribers, who have taken it to the number one spot among the most watched in Spain this weekend on the platform, ruthlessly dethroning Emily in Paris.

This Mexican production premiered on August 21st without prior international promotion support (as happened with My stuffed reindeer), and it is currently in second place among the most-watched series on global Netflix, relying solely on its premise to attract the attention of viewers who stopped at the title in the release carousel of the catalog.

What is it about

In ten episodes, the series tells the story of several families who come together to celebrate a children's birthday. Amid the party, and while the children enjoy playing in an inflatable castle set up for the occasion, an unexpected gust of wind makes it fly off leaving several injured, a missing girl, and ending the lives of three of the children.

From then on, an investigation begins to clarify what happened and determine who was responsible for the tragic accident, while the families seek a culprit in order to find justice and make sense of what happened.

What starts as a simple tragedy impossible to predict and prevent soon turns into something else when evidence is found suggesting that, perhaps, what happened at the party was not a simple accident.

'Accidente'

Is it based on a real case?

Directed by Gracia Querejeta and Klych López, the series is written by Leonardo Padrón, who has acknowledged being inspired by "a combination of similar situations that have occurred in different parts of the world."

"The central idea of the accident comes from several cases that, although surprising, are sadly more common than one might think," the screenwriter revealed in an interview with the Mexican medium El Estímulo.

What he was interested in exploring is how life can change in an instant due to an accident, an illness, or an unexpected revelation. "If you think about it, behind every accident there is a reason and, many times, a culprit. And in this story there is one. Here, everyone becomes a suspect of having caused that accident," Padrón explained.

Similar real accidents

In an episode of the series 9-1-1, someone calls the emergency service when they see an inflatable castle flying through the air. Just like Padrón, the team of the firefighter series created by Ryan Murphy has also revealed being inspired by similar accidents that have occurred in real life on several occasions due to the wind.

In 2016, a castle collided with high voltage cables in the United States, although fortunately, no one was inside. There were three children in a flying castle in 2014, a fall from which the children survived, as confirmed by CNN at the time, although with several injuries.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence