Unspeakable Sins Review
Director: Guillermo Ríos and Leticia López Margalli
Date Created: 2025-07-31 00:39
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Unspeakable Sins Review: Created by Guillermo Ríos and Leticia López Margalli, Pecados Inconfesables is a Mexican Netflix thriller series that features an intriguing cast, including Zuria Vega, Andrés Baida, Erik Hayser, Manuel Masalva, Adriana Louvier, and others. The show consists of 18 episodes of about 35 minutes. The soap opera promised drama, scandal, betrayal, and revenge, but does the show actually bring something new?
Unspeakable Sins Review
The series focuses on Helena Rivas, who is stuck in a loveless marriage with her husband, Claudio. She finds an escape route in Ivan, a young escort, and in no time at all, things are spiralling out of control very fast. From cheating and dishonesty to kidnapping and murder, the Unspeakable Sins Series just keeps piling on more and more jaw-dropping moments. Is it always meant to be that way?
I found myself so interested when I started watching Netflix’s Unspeakable Sins. The plot looked sizzling and thrilling, something you would spend your weekend watching. But the more it went, the more I realised that the plot was being stretched too far. A family drama could manage eighteen episodes, but with a fast-paced thriller, it felt like a long ride with too many diversions.
All of that aside, the show itself is dramatic: too dramatic, sometimes. Something’s always going down: someone’s cheating, someone’s lying, someone’s being blackmailed. The thing is, after a few episodes, it all gets to be too much. The series Unspeakable Sins does everything it can do in an effort to shock its viewers, and while some of the twists and turns did quite honestly take me by surprise, others seemed to be added simply to keep the wheels of nuttiness in motion.
The one thing that I did like about it was the appearance of the show. Production is decent for a Mexican thriller, particularly the lighting and the pacing of the scenes. And the actors do their best. Zuria Vega as Helena does make an effort to get a lot out of the character, particularly in the scenes where she’s desperately trying to hold it all together as her world comes crashing down. Andrés Baida as Ivan also bring a combination of charm and menace.
But the programme is huge in its shortcomings. Firstly, I couldn’t relate to most of the characters. Although most of them are “flawed,” they were rather crazier than nuanced. I was always wondering why they were doing that. Sometimes, they would do something just to create tension, rather than because it was smart for the character.
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Another thing that left me questioning Mexican Thriller Unspeakable Sins was the overuse of sex and violence. There are several sizzling scenes, and rightfully so in an erotic thriller, but too many of them seemed like they were done for the sake of it. The show doesn’t seem to have thought that the strength of the story would win the day, and included extra adult material just to keep the viewers. Although the scenes are shot tastefully, they don’t necessarily advance the story.
And as for the story, it definitely delivers on all the buzz—murder plots, illicit sex tapes, political conspiracies, and stunning betrayals. But because it’s got so many, some of them fail. The best thing about Netflix’s Unspeakable Sins, in my opinion, was when it finally slowed down long enough to observe the psychological costs of these things on the characters. Shame those were scarce.
Among the series’ dangling storylines were Claudio’s sleazy double life and the manner in which the series exposed the methods of uncovering them and the extent to which this impacted his family. Secretly taped recordings as blackmail proof would have worked better, but the series simply races to the plot points. What could have been a stinging, off-colour thriller becomes a soap opera with better lighting.
By the time I was on the last few episodes, I was exhausted. The twists kept on coming, but I wasn’t emotionally invested anymore. Even the biggest twist towards the end regarding who killed Claudio felt too contrived and unemotional. The series ends in a big confession and a “happily ever after,” but it left me wondering if all that soap opera melodrama was worth it.
Netflix Unspeakable Sins Review: Summing Up
Overall, the series has some positives to its credit—fine acting, wholesome production, and a plot that tries to be provocative. But it’s dragged down by too many episodes, careless character development, and a compulsion to shock around every corner. If it had been 8 or 10 episodes instead of 18, with tighter writing on suspense and emotional impact, it could have been a winner, but for me, it was an exhausting watch.
