‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Review: Netflix Brings Gabriel García Márquez’s Epic to Life as a Sweeping Series

The first season of the Spanish-language production impressively turns the book into a thoughtful and realistically magical tale

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Claudio Cataño in "One Hundred Years of Solitude." (Mauro González/Netflix)

Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — an elliptical epic of fate, family, politics and madness in Macondo, a fictional town that represents the wider, tragic history of Colombia and Latin America as a whole — has been made into a Netflix series.

That’s Netflix; the streaming service better known for “Squid Game,” “Tiger King” and the more overpriced works of Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes.

Bad idea, right? Well, to further quote that other prizeworthy wordsmith Olivia Rodrigo, “f—k it, it’s fine.”

More than fine, actually.

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