Billionaires’ Bunker Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Teased and expected by Netflix fans for 3 years, the new series from Álex Pina, creator of global hit Money Heist/La Casa de Papel, is finally here. But as the mystery thriller unfolds its fair share of surprises, should you spend some time in the luxurious bunker with its filthy rich occupants and caring crew?
Cocreated with longtime creative partner Esther Martínez Lobato, also at the helm of Money Heist spinoff Berlin (in production on its sophomore season), Billionaires Bunker takes place almost exclusively in a large-scale bunker, which is ripe with state-of-the-art technology to survive nuclear war. As it happens, a group of very wealthy people hires the services of the company Kimera, led by Minerva (Miren Ibarguren), in order to convincingly go off the grid when the geopolitical situation gets significantly worse. Among them are two families who have been struck by tragedy: Max (Pau Simon), who lost her fiancé in a car crash while he was drunk driving, and his wealthy father, Rafa (Carlos Santos). He entered the bunker with his close friend Guillermo (Joaquín Furriel) and his daughter Asia (Alicia Falcó). Asia, a gifted medicine student, is also the sister of Max’s late fiancé and deeply resents him.
This is where things start. As the creators have teased, the series takes a turn at the end of its first episode, which takes the premise in an entirely new direction and shifts the dynamics dramatically. But as this review is spoiler-free, we won’t reveal what happens; if you do not wish to know anything more plot-wise, feel free to skip to the end.
Billionaires Bunker is meant as a light satire on the lifestyle of the rich and famous, but the sense of impending doom and the tensions between the main characters are there instantly. If the series, shot on a massive Spanish soundstage, is a treat of huge scale interiors with orange and blue hues (read our set visit), that futuristic bunker might as well have been a spaceship heading to a galaxy far, far away. In space or underneath Earth, no one can hear you scream; cocreators Alex Pina and Martinez Lobato may have sensed early that the premise would lead to too much doom-and-gloom to be really enjoyable or unique. So they decided to write about their strengths. Billionaires Bunker remains an action/adventure mixed with thriller elements; though it is very much a show about wacky scenarios, fiction – the ones we tell others and the ones we tell ourselves -, con jobs, forgiveness, and solidarity. The problems arise when that version of the show is not necessarily better than the one the audience assumed going in.
The dialogue and some elements of the series have a tasty hint of meta and awareness of its own ridiculousness. Just as Money Heist captivated audiences worldwide, this project delivers tongue-in-cheek monologues and twists, but as the series progresses, it seems to run out of steam and slow down dramatically. If Max eventually gets over his grief by becoming an agile, brutal ex-con, the show does it no favors by making him the emotional heart of the show, as well as a hokey evolving relationship with Asia. The massive set pieces eventually give way to a very narrow relationship drama, where both men and women seem to relish taking new starts in their relationships. On the side of the Kimera crew, as the boss Minerva and her savant brother reveal more and more layers to their abilities and manipulations, the tropes in their characters wear thinner.
Some performances, such as the intense bearded billionaire Guillermo, played by Joaquín Furriel, stand out over others, but the overall pace of the show tends to run out of steam as its character work becomes repetitive. Even though some characters are adaptable and the show is not afraid to cast a shadow over some of its characters through effusions of violence, the ways the perfect plans devised in the show tend to go awry are really on the side of predictable. Billionaires Bunker then deflates its high-concept world into diminishing returns.
