Miniseries · Netflix
The Final Problem
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Final Problem actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Final Problem reads strongest on Tension, Cliffhanger Intensity and Serialized.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
In the spring of 1959, a retired actor who previously played Sherlock Holmes must investigate a murder at a small hotel on a tiny island near Mallorca.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Fernando BovairaProducer
- Urko ErrazquinExecutive Producer
Direction
- Félix ViscarretDirector
Where to watch
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