‘Gordon,’ a Big Netflix Series From Argentina, Unpacked by Pablo Trapero and Star Rodrigo de la Serna

Netflix’s seven-part series *Gordon*, due to premiere on 18 November, dramatises the rise of Aníbal Gordon, an Argentine criminal who became a member of death squads and a torturer during the country’s Dirty War. Directed by Pablo Trapero and Pablo Fendrik, and led by Rodrigo de la Serna, the psychological thriller uses Gordon’s story to examine how a violent criminal gained influence within Argentina’s security forces.

The series is set between 1970 and 1976 and was filmed over seven months. Gordon joined military intelligence as a secret agent in 1968, became a leader in the Triple A death squads and, in 1976, ran the Automotores Orletti detention and torture centre. Trapero, who also co-wrote the series, says it starts with fiction while using real events as context; the production is made by Adrián Suar and Diego Andraznik’s Preludio Producciones.