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As Netflix’s thriller series Fake Profile unfolds, it seems like creator Pablo Illanes and his team of writers are drawing inspiration from a hat filled with random plot ideas, crafting the latest season with unpredictable twists and turns. The third season, aptly named “Killer Honeymoon,” appears to focus more on dramatic interludes between steamy scenes rather than a cohesive storyline.
FAKE PROFILE SEASON 3: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Scene: The curtain rises with Camila Román, played by Carolina Miranda, dancing energetically at her club. Suddenly, the night takes a dark turn as a gunshot echoes, and Camila falls.
Storyline Overview: Flashback to a month earlier, Camila and her partner, Miguel Estévez (portrayed by Rodolfo Salas), are enjoying a romantic getaway at a luxurious resort. As they share a passionate moment on their balcony, they catch sight of a young couple next door, and a mutual acknowledgment passes between the two pairs.
During dinner, the young couple, Juanita (played by Asia Ortega) and Rodrigo, announce their engagement and invite Camila and Miguel to join the celebration. The foursome quickly bonds, and the evening escalates to flirtatious exchanges in the hotel’s infinity pool, hinting at potential threesomes or partner swapping. However, the mood changes when Miguel notices a distinctive scar on Rodrigo’s back. This, coupled with Rodrigo’s use of the nickname “Micky,” triggers Miguel’s memory—they have a history together.
Meanwhile, Ángela Ferrer (Manuela González) is on the run, evading murder charges. With her girlfriend, Vannessa (Lidia San Jose), by her side, Ángela is determined to reassure her partner. She promises that they will reunite with their children and insists that nothing will come between them.
Miguel’s mood towards Camilia turns after that initial encounter with Juanita and Rodrigo, but he can’t tell her the real reason why he’s upset; instead, he frets that she decided to open up their relationship without discussing it first.
Indira (Alejandra Borrero), a police detective, is taken off the case against Ángela by her boss, but when someone who was involved with the murders she’s accused of wakes up from his coma, he insists on talking to Indira. That’s when he admits to something that completely changes the nature of the case. Meanwhile, back at the Riviera Esmerelda, a new au pair named Becky (Laura Osma) uses her skills to get Miguel’s teenage son to reveal where his mother, Ángela, is hiding out.
What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Created by Pablo Illanes, Fake Profile is a combination of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
Our Take: The third season of Fake Profile has a lot of characters, a lot of plot threads, a ton of unsolved killings, and definitely some predictable mysteries, like just how Miguel and Rodrigo know each other. We’re not even sure how the plots intersect anymore. They may not. We didn’t even mention a third major plot because we’re not even sure we remember who those characters were from the second season. A fourth plot involves a singer named Noa (Penelope Guerrero), who wows when she auditions at Camila’s club. How Noa knows Camila and how she’ll factor into the craziness is yet to be seen.
But, of course, there’s a whole lot of steaminess, and only in a show like Fake Profile could someone cover up seeing someone from his past that he wanted to keep in the past by saying that he didn’t appreciate the threesome or foursome or whatever it was that was developing in the pool.
Performance Worth Watching: We still somehow appreciate how Carolina Miranda, who plays Camila, manages to play all of this craziness straight without a hint of campiness.
Sex And Skin: Yes and yes. Lots of both.
Parting Shot: Indira gets a call and finds Ángela in a cage hanging over the floor of a warehouse.
Sleeper Star: Penelope Guerrero’s performance as Noa was fun to watch, and we hope that smoky singing voice we heard was hers and not the voice of someone dubbing it in.
Most Pilot-y Line: The entire show is silly as hell, so to pinpoint one moment seems like a futile exercise.
Our Call: SKIP IT. Fake Profile has finally collapsed under the weight of its own silliness, because the third season has so many incoherent plots, it was hard to even concentrate on who was doing what to whom.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.
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