— A strong, mature opener that trusts its audience to sit with discomfort.
Rating: 8/10
After a bombastic first season focused on Sergio Jadue’s rise in Chile, Season 2 pivots hard. Episode 1 is less a crime-drama caper and more a meticulous legal thriller. It swaps the fast-money clubs of Santiago for the sterile, claustrophobic corridors of a Brooklyn courthouse. The result is a slower burn, but one with sharper teeth, focusing less on how the corruption happened and more on how the law finally caught up . The episode opens immediately after the 2015 Zurich hotel arrests. We are now in the "Eastern District of New York" — the courtroom and holding cells of prosecutors determined to untangle the FIFA web. el presidente s02e01 tv