Don Ávila (2013)

Original title

Sr. Ávila

Genre

action & adventure, crime, drama

Country

Mexico

Length

4 seasons, 43 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A funeral home worker is a devoted family man and a ruthless contract killer. He decides to take over a hitman organization which forces his two lives to collide.

tensedarksuspensefulgrimgrittymethodicalunsettlingcold-blooded

What happens

Sr. Ávila (English: Don Ávila) is a Mexican television series created by Marcelo Slavitch and Walter Slavitch, and aired by HBO Latinoamérica. Roberto Ávila is a middle-class funeral parlor employee, doting husband and father. He is also a cunning hit man. When he decides to head an organization of contract killers, the thin veil between his ordinary and hidden lives wears quickly. In this seedy underworld of hired crime, every entanglement falls into the hands of Sr. Avila—who must decide who stays and who goes. The series has executive production by Luis F. Peraza, Roberto Rios, Paul Drago and Gabriela Remirez of HBO Latin America Originals, and Fernando Rovzar, Billy Rovzar and Alexis Fridman of Lemon Films. Sr. Ávila is directed by Fernando Rovzar along with Alejandro Lozano, and the script was written by Walter and Marcelo Slavich, who also were the authors of Epitafios, another original production HBO Latin America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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