The Secret of the Greco Family (El Secreto de la Familia Greco) is a Mexican crime drama series on Netflix, which is inspired by real events and based on the Argentinian miniseries Historia de un clan, telling the history of the Clan Puccio in Argentina. There are 9 episodes in total with a runtime of about 45-60 minutes.
The cast of the series includes Fernando Colunga, Lisa Owen, Manuel Masalva, Luis Machín, Rafael Ferro, Alejandro de Hoyos, Samantha Siqueiros, Roberta Damián, Antonio de la Vega, Delfina Chaves, Celina Font, Eliseo Barrionuevo, Guadalupe Docampo, Junior Pisanu, Ernesto Claudio, Juan Sorini, Iván Espeche, Camila Flamenco and Carola Reyna.
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In the series, we see that the Greco family is faced with a financial problem, Aquiles shares a criminal plan with his sons. Andrés’ wealthy friend, Gael, becomes the first target of the new family project. Gael’s family receives detailed ransom instructions from Aquiles and his partners. Meanwhile, Andrés is consumed by his guilt and puts the whole operation in jeopardy by revealing his identity.
His brother Darío also develops a bond with Gael, but that is soon to be over, as Aquiles and his associates continue the operation while Andrés faces an important match. By the end, while he wins his match, Gael gets back to his family in a dead state. Everyone had received the ransom before killing him and the money gets divided among everyone.
After a trip to France with Hugo and Lupe, the gang leader sets his sights on a new target: wealthy polo player Emilio Garay. To carry out his new plan he recruits Gustavo Valbuena, but the old man who is interested in Emilio’s grandmother’s money has doubts about joining the clan. On the other hand, Lupe stays with the Grecos after a fight with Hugo.
In the middle of Aquiles’ birthday party, Lupe discovers Emilio, which leads to him killing her. Later, he frames Miguel, the club tennis coach who was interested in Hugo’s wife, for the crime. But this time, they bury the body of the victim in the woods and divide the ransom with Gustavo, in hopes of working together again.
After having two successful kidnappings, they set their target high by trying to kidnap a cloth brand owner but things go wrong as Lozano accidentally shoots him. Simultaneously, Lupe’s body is found in the coach’s car trunk which strays Hugo from working efficiently and distracts him from investigating Emilio’s case.
During Lupe’s funeral, Aquiles finds another target – the funeral home director, who used to work for the government. Gustavo Valbuena is an acquaintance of the director and becomes a partner in the plan. But still holding a grudge about not getting enough money in Emilio’s kidnapping, he tries to negotiate with the director’s family by himself on the side, hampering their whole mission.
Meanwhile, Hugo is trying to focus back on his work and visits the funeral home, where Gustavo is seen. On seeing the inspector again after Emilio’s case, he gets frightened and tries to escape but Hugo finds it suspicious and catches him – where he blurts out everything without even asking.
With the leads about the Grecos and associates, the police barge into their home, arresting everyone and rescuing the director from their basement. While the director’s son plays along with Aquiles when he calls asking for ransom and catches him red-handed, calling from the phone booth.
Mother and daughters are released shortly after, followed by Dario, since his name was not mentioned by Gustavo. While Andrés and Aquiles are given life imprisonment. Unable to deal with the guilt, Andrés kills himself by engulfing blades and the father also passes away in 2008.
The Secret of the Greco Family is currently streaming on Netflix.
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