Barack and Michelle Obama once signed an exclusive contract for the production company they created in 2018, Higher Ground Productions, with Netflix to produce documentaries, films and television series. Bodkinthe series that the platform has just released, is one of the consequences of that exclusivity.
A group of this new profession that emerged at the mercy of new technologies, which are podcasters, and who base their income on the number of followers they gain, investigate a series of murders in an Irish town. That the plot takes place in Ireland is no coincidence. The country has become one of the favorite locations of the audiovisual industry and large technology companies due to a policy of important tax advantages. One fact: Google and Facebook, for example, have moved their tax domicile there because the corporate tax is 12.5%. Audiovisual production also gets significant tax relief, credit facilities and post-project compensation payments.
Something similar was attempted for these payments with the so-called City of Light, in Alicante, but it did not work due to a series of irregularities from the considered illegal expropriation of the land on which the complex would be built to the blow it received from the European Commission. for the aid granted for its construction and management. Years later, in 2022, the aforementioned European Commission archived the sanctioning file and the studies were reopened. How right was that advertising slogan that “Spain is different”! In other words: “Spain, bungling as queen of the house.”
The alternative, or complement, of Bodkin could be Rabbit Hole, on SkyShowtime, in which Kiefer Sutherland once again faces the world, although in this case the world is an evil businessman and not the terrorism that was trying to destroy the United States in 24. Kiefer Sutherland is no longer Jack Bauer, that intrepid member of the Antiterrorist Unit who made a Nobel Prize in Literature like Mario Vargas Llosa so happy to the point of publishing a laudatory article (“Hero of our time”) in EL PAÍS in September 2006. Now he is John Weir, a deception expert who thrives in the underworld of industrial espionage. What we do not know is whether the Nobel Prize in Literature will have seen the entertaining series for the enjoyment of his readers.
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