Two Graves Series Review: Manages To Hit The Rudder That You Don’t See Coming? (Dos Tumbas)

Two Graves Series Review: Two Graves (Dos Tumbas in the original) arrives on Netflix on August 29, 2025, Spanish miniseries in three episodes. In the cast, Alvaro Morte (yes, Professor de The Paper House), Kiti Mánver, and Hovik Keuchkerian. A journey into mourning that turns into a story of revenge. But let’s go in order and start with the plot without major spoilers. This news leaves their town in shock; however, the authorities decide to stop searching after spending two years on the case. From here, Isabel, the grandmother of one of them, decides not to give up and continues searching for your granddaughter, although to do so, he must ally himself with people he never thought he would do it with. Your own desperation and thirst for revenge end up taking him to totally extreme places throughout the plot, where he never thought he would be able to reach.

Netflix doesn’t stop releasing new releases, and this week it’s the turn of the three-episode miniseries Two Graves, created by Agustín Martinez (which on September 4 also has season 4 pending release Irati) and directed by Mike Maíllo. The director of films like Disco, Ibiza, Locomía it now stands out with a thriller set on the coast in which there is no shortage of a traditional and unprejudiced look at the age of its main protagonist, a magnificent Kiti Manver, which shows once again that there is no big challenge for her. This was one of the tones of the novels Carmen Mola, a collective of writers who achieved enormous fame with the saga of The gypsy bride and of which the already named one is a part, Agustín Martínez and Jorge Díaz Cortés, and Antonio Mercero as scriptwriters.

Two Graves Series Review: The Story Plot

It all begins on the evening of the feast of the patron saint of the village of Frigiliana, in Andalusia. The two sixteen-year-olds, Verónica and Marta, make themselves beautiful, go out, and then disappear into thin air. Two years of emptiness and research, then only Marta’s body returns from the sea. Raped, killed, and then thrown into the Mediterranean. No trace of Verónica, and the investigation is closed with the 16-year-old left for dead. His grandmother, Isabel, doesn’t want to live without the truth and opens her own investigation, beyond the law, and along the way, she allies herself with Rafael Salazar, an ambiguous character. A dangerous way to find the truth, which, however, will lead Grandma Isabel somewhere else. With the plot, we’ll stop here for now, so as not to ruin the twists and turns.

Two Graves Series Review and Analysis

From here on out, there is a big spoiler risk. For those who want to continue, let’s go. The miniseries – with twists and plot turns – plays hard on the saying of the Two Graves (the one passed off as a Chinese proverb that says to dig Two Graves before embarking on the path of revenge, one for the enemy and one for oneself). From the title onwards, it’s all about this ambiguity, but the writing gets by in some way. He lacks dialogue and structuring of characters, especially the main ones, but in twists and forward shots, he gets by. And if we then broaden our gaze and embrace all three episodes – yes, the story of the three, like the ghosts – the script reaches sufficiency. And, as a bonus, we also know whose graves they are. To the list of things to save, we can also add the interpretation of Death, despite the character.

Two Graves, more than anything, is a wasted opportunity. Because the basic idea holds up, but then some things drag it down (yes, the joke is intentional. If you finish it, you’ll understand). As in many cases, the problem is all in the execution. You can tell the same thing in a thousand different ways and still make it work, but you have to know how. And no, this is not the case. The photography is soap-like, the dialogues are not very brilliant, the ‘mystery’ inherent in the small village is thrown away shortly after, the soundtrack works against it, and the direction is unable to build tension and waters down a thriller with meaningless fillers. To this must be added the insufficient proof of Kiti Mánver, who could have become the most fearsome grandmother in history, and a poorly constructed ending.

Accustomed to other types of formats that have been longer in time and have longer durations, ‘Two Graves‘ is one miniseries with only three chapters; each delivery lasts just under an hour. In this way, this thriller forces you not to be able to look away not a single second of the screen, accumulating one great series of turns in a very short time. Since all the content is so condensed, it makes the viewer experience everything at once much more intense and exciting way. On the other hand, the big drawback is that it seems that it will not lead to second chances no more deliveries, which surely will leave you wanting more stories similar in nature to those who watch this fiction. The great attraction and differentiating factor of ‘Two Graves‘, not only compared to other thrillers, but also compared to most current fictions, is the fact that it tells the entire story from the vision and Grandma’s point of view. From a certain age, women stop having a leading role in fiction and begin to have a more secondary character, who revolve around others: mother, grandmother, etc.

However, here, despite being the grandmother, she is the one who carries out all the research, she is the one from whom the ideas are born, he is the character that comes to mind when you remember this story. We all know she is the grandmother, and no one denies it, but she shows her own emotions and decisions for herself, not just because of what happens to others. The plot takes away your prejudices about what “an endearing grandmother” can or cannot do and takes you to the limit by showing actions you would expect from anyone but her. Another factor that, without a doubt, helps make the story credible and makes you experience so many emotions is the impeccable performance by its three protagonists. Kiti Mánver, Álvaro Morte, and Hovik Keuchkerian meet again in a series after his great success with Money Heist, a new interpretive challenge. The three form a dream team, managing to show the most real vision of their characters.

She, for her part, manages to take you by the hand throughout the evolution of Isabel’s staff; as a spectator, you are not able to leave her alone at any time. Despite being able to think that he is wrong with his actions, it manages to make you empathize. Meanwhile, Álvaro Morte represents Rafael naturally and genuinely, one of the most dangerous men in Malaga, who is capable of doing anything to get his daughter back. And finally, Hovik Keuchkerian and his character, Antonio, surprise. Isabel’s son in fiction is the character who seems most calm and rational; however, he has many things to tell. At the end of this three-chapter emotional journey, we came across a quote from Confucius in the final credits. That’s where you end up understanding everything conceptually and the meaning around the title and the plot of ‘Two Graves‘. “Before beginning a journey of revenge, dig Two Graves“.

But what’s so special about it, Two Graves? Above all, he gets to the point and doesn’t beat around the bush. The first ten minutes of the series cement the main conflict around which a mystery and, above all, bitter revenge will be woven. Verónica and Marta are two 16-year-olds who go out partying together one night, never to return. Shortly after the search devices are launched, the body of one of them appears lifeless, submerged in the waters, having been beaten and raped. The first investigations point to the friend who picked them up in his car and was the last person to see them alive, but the authorities are unable to obtain any incriminating evidence that he attacked them and leave him free. Thus begins the ordeal of Isabel, Verónica’s grandmother, who is obsessed with finding her granddaughter’s body and, above all, clarifying what happened that night. To do this, he will not hesitate to cross many limits and even ally himself with Marta’s father, a guy with a problematic reputation that a priori no one wants to mix with.

As new clues begin to emerge, Isabel’s investigation, parallel to that of the police, will become more complicated, spiced up by other surrounding problems such as an unscrupulous stalker or a past that her son does not want to forgive her. The rush takes its toll on Two Graves. The idea is good, but delimiting it to just three episodes leaves it on gray ground. You would like to know more, expanding the story or solving it less hastily, or it could have been better defined as a two-hour movie. It’s not that the pace is slow, but perhaps it falls into the realm of over-explanation, insisting on showing what we can easily imagine. As a background, some more than uncomfortable, abject realities, like the ones we see day in and day out also splashing the news. In its favor is the fact that it is not a morbid series, although it has its share of savagery on the level of violence, physical and sexual.

Another aspect that is essential to review is how curious and familiar the setting is, with those classic programs in which the presenters (the one from Save Queen, who knows how to do his thing, and not only on the level of comedy as in Dead SL) are popular references at all hours on television. And much more: there are situations, moments, objects… that are fully recognizable and are part of everyday life. The “nonsense” thing is not how the characters are and where they move, but what they are capable of doing. For the rest, we have the meeting of The Paper House: Alvaro Morte (if you have his voice in your head like the famous professor, his accent will blow your mind here) and Hovik Keuchkerian, in the background.

Two Graves does not revolutionize the genre, although it does innovate on certain levels for the better, opening melons and jumping into the pool with a character design that escapes the usual: a widowed father who has no idea of being a father, a grandmother who has been a hippie nomad and goes on his own… No, it’s not the same as always. They have given us a different dressing for this salad of thriller, drama, and action. The main value is that it attracts a lot of attention because it manages to hit the rudder that you don’t see coming. For some characters, it is a true descent into hell that seems somewhat exaggerated, but it is impossible to look away.

Two Graves Series Review: The Last Words

Two Graves brings together an excellent cast, apart from the veteran Kiti Mánver, thanks to Hovik Keuchkerian, Save Queen, and Alvaro Morte. In total, Two Graves has six episodes, which, as Netflix usually does, arrive on the red platform at the same time. It remains to be seen, however, if Two Graves finishes them off or continues in another batch. As the current streaming maxim says, no series has aired its final season if the audience can avoid it. It does not revolutionize the genre, but it is engaging due to the script twists, some more plausible than others, put forward by a cast led by Kiti Mánver and Álvaro Morte.

Stars: Nonna Cardoner, Álvaro Morte, Hovik Keuchkerian

Director: Kike Maíllo

Streaming Platform: Netflix

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars)