Variety has published a review of "I'm Not Afraid", Netflix's latest Spanish-language mini-series, a Mexican drama praised as both a gut-wrenching mystery and an exhilarating coming-of-age story. The six-episode limited series is the first television adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti's 2003 novel "I'm Not Scared", and it explores the cruelties of poverty and the loss of childhood innocence through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy. The reviewer commends it as a beautiful depiction of childhood that also unpacks the harsh realities of social inequality and how desperation can lead to shocking violence.

Set in a small rural Mexican village in 1986, the story follows Miguel, whose carefree days playing football are upended after a plague devastates the local coffee harvest and his family's livelihood. Everything changes when Miguel discovers a boy, Felipe, chained beneath an old water tank; he secretly brings him food and water before enlisting help to free him. Told through a non-linear timeline that moves between 1981 and the present, the series builds tension towards a searing revelation, in the third episode "The Worm Man", about who is behind the kidnapping. The show is now streaming on Netflix.