Money Heist (Netflix) Part One questions (Spoilers)

[russian_heel]

Please note I’ve only seen the very first 13 Ep. which on Netflix is “Part One” and am now starting Part Two, Season One. Confused? Either way please no spoilers past that!

Question: there’s no possible way the robbers are going to print all that phony money, and spend the cash and get away with it? What bank is going to take it? Won’t law enforcement be able to eventually track all the bills they made in the mint? Or does the Professor have a plan for that later in the series? With his insane attention to detail I’d be shocked that he doesn’t have a post-heist plan in place.

Next question: does the story ever move out of the hostage crisis?

Finally, my previous question is because I’m starting to get slightly bored: Is the series worth continuing? I do see there’s a Season 4 coming in April.

Overall reactions to Part One are also welcome if you’d like to share! Thanks!
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[FinsToTheLeft]

I’ve just started part 2, but they are essentially making perfect counterfeit bills. The authorities don’t know what serial numbers they are printing, the paper, ink, plates, and presses are genuine. Once the bills are in circulation there is no way to tell.

The only issue I see is that reporting rules like cash deposits of over $10k to a bank. No one buys a house with $1M (or € in this case) in crisp bills, so they will still need to be laundered somehow.

[russian_heel]

@FinsToTheLeft

I’ve just started part 2, but they are essentially making perfect counterfeit bills. The authorities don’t know what serial numbers they are printing, the paper, ink, plates, and presses are genuine. Once the bills are in circulation there is no way to tell.

The only issue I see is that reporting rules like cash deposits of over $10k to a bank. No one buys a house with $1M (or € in this case) in crisp bills, so they will still need to be laundered somehow.

Yes just finished Part Two Ep. 2 it actually was very good and brought me back.

As a follow up would the printing of all this money create an inflation crisis in the EU?
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[FinsToTheLeft]

@russian_heel

Yes just finished Part Two Ep. 2 it actually was very good and brought me back.

As a follow up would the printing of all this money create an inflation crisis in the EU?
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My sister-in-law’s father is an economist retired from the Bank for International Settlement, the Central Bank of Central Banks. I’ll ask him the next time I see him.

[Hermitian]

@russian_heel

Next question: does the story ever move out of the hostage crisis?

Finally, my previous question is because I’m starting to get slightly bored: Is the series worth continuing? I do see there’s a Season 4 coming in April.

This is my thoughts as well. We need to hurry the heck up or I’m ditching this series.
I am not interested in every single person’s backstory.

@FinsToTheLeft

The authorities don’t know what serial numbers they are printing, the paper, ink, plates, and presses are genuine. Once the bills are in circulation there is no way to tell.

The only issue I see is that reporting rules like cash deposits of over $10k to a bank. No one buys a house with $1M (or € in this case) in crisp bills, so they will still need to be laundered somehow.

This is my interpretation as well. How are they each going to launder several hundred million each? A car wash business is not going to do it.

@russian_heel

As a follow up would the printing of all this money create an inflation crisis in the EU?

Nah. Lets say they spend it over a time span of 20 years. That is only an extra 120 million a year. That’s like peeing in a river.

[ArrMatey]

@russian_heel

Next question: does the story ever move out of the hostage crisis?

Finally, my previous question is because I’m starting to get slightly bored: Is the series worth continuing? I do see there’s a Season 4 coming in April.

Signing on to the thread just for answers to these. I love the aesthetic, and damn is the dubbing good, but I’m just sorta running out of steam with the extended morality plays going on. Does it -go- anywhere?

[Mike_Mabes]

@Hermitian

This is my thoughts as well. We need to hurry the heck up or I’m ditching this series.
I am not interested in every single person’s backstory.

Me too. I watched the first 7 or 8 EPs and saw there was going to be a Season 2 and I had a feeling it would never end. Since there are spoilers here, do they get out of the bank in Season 1 and go on the run, or will that not happen until Season 3 or so

[Hermitian]

@Mike_Mabes

Me too. I watched the first 7 or 8 EPs and saw there was going to be a Season 2 and I had a feeling it would never end. Since there are spoilers here, do they get out of the bank in Season 1 and go on the run, or will that not happen until Season 3 or so

I have finished “Part 1,” which is through episode 13, and they are still in the bank.

[septimus]

I just watched all 22 episodes in one giant binge! I did like this show! It doesn’t make my Very Top List, but is definitely much better than most, IMO. Sometimes it seems slow-moving, but that’s partly due to the high suspense. (I get anxious when suspense is prolonged.)

I’ll avoid much comment, since Part Two spoilers are proscribed, but one general comment: Nobody complains that Star Trek’s warp-drive is theoretically impossible, nor that Superman shouldn’t really be able to fly. Don’t let plot-holes in a series like this annoy you.

[Elmer_J.Fudd]

I loved this show but it is completely loopy. The improbability of each turn is part of its charm. The bank phase concludes at the end of season 2 but it’s not the last you will see of some of the hostages.