Triptych - Netflix Series

Triptych (Triada) | Official Trailer | Netflix (Maite Perroni)
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Mexico. Synopsis of first two episodes:

We have a set of triplets that were separated at birth and raised independently. The first one, Aleida, grew up in a well-to-do family and became the wife of corporate big shot. She loses her mind and is committed to the loonie bin. When her husband gets her out for her birthday, she gets a hold of a gun and goes to visit her psychiatrist. She shoots several people on her way in and takes the doctor hostage. The cops show up and everybody gets shot.

The second one, Rebecca, grew up in a middle class family and joined the police force where she is now working in forensics so she gets called to the scene where she discovers that the dead woman looks just like her. Not only that, but she isn't quite dead. She rallies enough to call Rebecca by her name.

She asks her mother about this strange occurrence, but her mother denies everything, so Rebecca collects a piece of blood soaked cloth from the crime scene and a cheek swab from herself and sends it off for DNA analysis. When the test comes back with a match, she confronts her mother again and this time the truth comes out - she was adopted illegally and her mother is still afraid of being sent to jail.

Aleida is admitted to the hospital but with three gunshot wounds to the torso, she is not expected to live, and she doesn't. But when Rebecca goes to check on here she finds that the hospital has no record of her. Seems the big shots are trying to cover up the shooting. Back at the cop shop, her boss tells her the investigation has been closed on orders from on high, which irritates Rebecca. It irritates her enough that she breaks into her boss's desk and sees a copy of Aleida's husband's drivers licence.

Rebecca sneaks into Aleida's husband's house and discovers a file with some photographs of herself along with some photos of places in the city. She goes to visit one and is assaulted by a big fat pimp who apparently is somehow feeling wronged. The next place she visits is a strip club where she encounters the third twin up on stage dancing with the pole.

Just to add a little drama, Rebecca is a recovering alcoholic who has been having an affair with her married boss. The last time he broke it off, she torched his car. That was enough to get her into Alcoholics Anonymous where she has been minding her P's & Q's for the last few months. But she and her boss, a dedicated family man, are still enthralled and she cannot repel his advances.

P.S. Next four episodes. This show has gone off the rails. The husband recruits Tamara to pose as his wife and has her publicly sign over her company to him. You'd think her death would automatically cause the company to be transferred to him, and if it didn't, that's what lawyers are for. Trying to stage this transfer with an imposter is something that would only happen in a telenovela. Oh wait, that's where we are.

In any case, suspicions are aroused. Rebecca is going crazy trying to figure out what happened. Her compulsion doesn't make much sense, but compulsions are sometimes like that. In any case she falls off the wagon and when she gets drunk, through some kind of psychic connection, Tamara also gets drunk. Fortuitously this happens when a couple of suspicious investors pay a visit to try and determine if Aleida is really who she says she is. 

Rebecca enlists Aleida's psychiatrist help in investigating her past. The shrink digs up the social worker who handled the adoption. She reveals that there was some kind of genetic experiment going on and the doctor who delivered the babies planned to kill the attending nurses and the mother before shipping the infants off to parts unknown. A nurse and the social worker escape with two of the kids, but the thugs catch and kill the mother, so the doctor only gets one infant.

But now the shrink sends her assistant to kill the social worker. WTF?

Meanwhile, Rebecca's boss's wife has kicked him out of the house and he has moved in with Rebecca. She isn't happy about this, but apparently her sexual desire is overpowering her common sense.

P. P. S. The last two episodes attempt to wrap us this mish-mash of nonsense, but it never does make much sense. Supposedly there was some kind of long term genetic experiment going on, but it was never clear as to just what they were after. Throw in a bunch of half-assed violence and you have to wonder if this is a documentary about a bunch of incompetent fools. I mean, nobody would write such a non-sensical story, would they?