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30 COINS
January 4, 2021  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

 
SERIES PREMIERE: This 2020 eight-episode Spanish miniseries, produced by HBO Spain, is a horror drama typing all sorts of supernatural weirdness to the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus Christ. The whereabouts and dark power of those coins reveals itself early and often in 30 Coins, which feels a bit like a less restrained, less focused Lovecraft Country. You’ll be able to decide early whether you want to go along on this subtitled but hardly subtle TV ride – about the time, early on, when a local priest learns of a cow that has given birth. So what’s so odd about that? The cow gave birth not to a calf, but to a human baby…
 
 
 
 
 
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