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Carmen Sandiego ends up in a sticky situation of its own, not necessarily a show you can watch out of order, but one that doesn’t keep the main plot moving fluidly. It isn’t until the season’s final episode - “The French Connection Caper” - that the elements established in the first two episodes come to a head, and even then, if you’ve watched any spy shows recently, the season’s conclusion is fairly predictable.
#WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO SHOW SERIES#
The transition between the two halves of the series is just as jarring as the titles segueing from “Becoming Carmen Sandiego” to “The Sticky Rice Caper.” Each standalone story sees Carmen and her crew engaged in a range of adventures from the acquisition of Vermeer paintings to stopping a rocket scientist from subliminally launching a rocket. Desperate to find more about her own past and stop V.I.L.E., Carmen leaves the island which segues the show into a caper of the day series of episodes. She believes the group of shadowy figures deals in stolen “valuable imports lavish exports” but comes to discover they’re really part of the Villians’ International League of Evil - though it’s never definitively stated how Carmen is okay with thieving in one sense and not the other. The first two episodes, titled “Becoming Carmen Sandiego,” lay out the character’s newly minted backstory, detailing Carmen’s abandonment and adolescence on the Isle of V.I.L.E.
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Though Dora may have come after Carmen, they’re close cousins now and it’ll be hard for older fans to really crack into a series that seems aimed at younger viewers. She’s tasked with a series of missions that are usually underscored by one V.I.L.E. Their physical similarities notwithstanding, Carmen also has a series of traveling sidekicks in the Boston-inflected Zach and Ivy, as well as a young hacker friend named Player. When Carmen discovers V.I.L.E’s true intentions, she turns into a Robin Hood-esque figure who only steals from the nefarious organization.Īlmost immediately, it seems like Netflix is mirroring Nickelodeon’s development strategy, with Carmen acting as an older version of Dora the Explorer. The island she lives on is known as the Isle of V.I.L.E., a secret alcove for a group of super-thieves who steal the best of the best. Abandoned on a remote island, all the she knows is she was born in Argentina and was left with a pair of Russian nesting dolls. The target demographic is a taste unclear, but it’s assumed young kids will eat this up while older fans of the original series will be wondering, “Why in the world is Carmen lost in her own series?” Carmen Sandiego (voiced by Gina Rodriguez), is a teenage girl without a past. Netflix’s latest attempt to provide “edutainment” to children is a bit of a mixed bag that doesn’t quite know what it wants to do, and once it gets the exposition out of the way, it fails to figure out what makes Carmen such a compelling character.
Carmen Sandiego taught a legion of children about history, geography, math, and that stealing could be really cool if you wore a slick outfit.
“Where in the world is Carmen Sandiegoooo?” Whether you listened to the theme song from the 1994 original cartoon series or the incredibly boppy opening titles of Netflix’s new incarnation, it’s an earworm that will burrow its way as deep into your brain as the titular fedora-wearing character it’s referencing.
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