"Money Heist" Has Captured Audiences Into Rooting For The Bad Guys

Why the bad guys don't seem that bad anymore and how the "good guys" are today's villains.

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Netflix's newest hit Spanish TV series " Money Heist" has hopped on the bandwagon of glorifying the Anti-Hero and does so in a way that you can't help but root for a group of criminal masterminds that pull off the biggest heist at the Royal Mint of Spain. This band of criminals gets formed by " The Professor" who has assembled the most elaborate plan for the heist and has labeled each person with their code names after famous cities. This TV show isn't however the first that deals with the not-so-bad "villains". Popularity in the anti-hero trope has risen throughout the years in the TV and film industry such as "Cruella" or "Robin Hood". It not only gives the audience a sense of redemption for the people who have been labeled the villain but gives us an urge for wanting to know more about their reasoning that led them to their wrongdoings. These characters strip away this Utopian society ideology and show the real-life aspects of someone contemplating their morals and beliefs.

Throughout this TV series, it slowly reels the audience members in. In the first episode, we are immediately brought into Spain's National Factory of Currency and Stamps as the heist begins. This group of robbers taking hostages makes one think "ugh what terrible people" but by the end of just season one alone you'll be a part of the heist conspiring against the

Spanish police and government singing the infamous "Bella Ciao" song. The narrator is one, Tokyo, one of the main characters involved in the heist is the one who narrates most of the show. You immediately can't help but fall in love with the character and how deeply she thinks and feels. Her emotions become yours. One of her most famous quotes being

"In the end, love is a good reason for everything to fall apart." -Tokyo

This can attest to the fact that her main reasoning for the heist was for revenge for the death of her boyfriend who got killed by the security outside the bank years previous. Of course, you wouldn't know this until later episodes because the creators of the TV series didn't mind leaving the audiences confused for a bit about the backgrounds of each character and how the formation of their group began. The complexity of each storyline gets threaded into each season so there are only glimpses of the struggles that each one faced resulting in the situation they are in now.

The emotional rollercoaster this show will take you on will have you second- guessing your own moral compass. You wouldn't however be the only one who is contemplating their judgment because through the series you'll have detectives and the public later turning on the government as well. The anti-establishment go hand in hand within this series and will have you on the edge of your seat. With the stakes getting higher within each season as the heist enlarges and more people you love to get involved. The unorthodox nature of the series will have you hooked within seconds and make you the root for the anti-hero.