Muted (El silencio) is a crime-mystery-drama series created by Aitor Gabilondo, who also serves as the screenwriter and one of the directors, along with Gabe Ibáñez and Esteban Crespo. The cast includes Arón Piper, Manu Ríos, Almudena Amor, Aitor Luna, Ramiro Blas, Cristina Kovani, Aria Bedmar and Mikel Losada, alongside others. The Limited Series has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around
Muted Story: Who is Who and the “Facts” That We are Initially Given
El Silencio has several characters working in tandem. First off, we have Sergio, who went to jail for six years after murdering his parents. There is no footage of the crime, and Sergio has never spoken to the authorities to tell them his side of the story. However, the series plays the story as if Sergio is the unsung hero who was dealt an unfair hand, especially because he claims, in his pursuit to find his sister, Noa, that their parents abused them and used them as a science experiment.
Next, we have Ana, a psychologist with a keen interest in Sergio’s case. She has been given the task of keeping a rather invasive and voyeuristic eye on Sergio 24×7 to figure out whether he is a threat to society. However, throughout the series, it is clear that she has some vested interest that goes beyond science and cares about Sergio more than a lab rat.
Finally, we have Marta, a woman who kept in contact with Sergio in prison since she admired and liked him. Once outside of prison, Marta reaches out to Sergio, and they start an affair, although her boyfriend is clearly not happy about it. She helps him out in various ways, especially because he still has an ankle bracelet and can’t go without cops following his every move. However, her life turns upside down thanks to these two men.
Finally, we have Cabrera, a cop in charge of helping Ana but who is more interested in locking Sergio up and putting this whole experiment to a stop.
Muted Ending Explained (El Silencio Ending Explained)
The Balcony Killer
In the sixth episode, we finally learn the truth about the tragedy that sent Sergio to prison – he claimed that he and Noa were forcefully experimented on with a drug that left them deranged and hostile. That fateful night, he did attack his mother, but it was his father who accidentally pushed his mother over the balcony. After realising what he has done, his heartbroken father also jumped off the balcony, not wanting to live without his wife.
However, when Noa reaches Sergio, she reminds him of the truth – that Sergio was actually hostile and scared everyone around him. Their mother, although reserved, loved them both, and she tried to help balance him with the drugs. Unfortunately, that day he had a breakdown and, eventually, did push both his parents over the balcony. Noa saw the entire ordeal and was the sole witness to it.
Why was Cabrera arrested?
Cabrera and his superior were using unethical methods to get rid of the drugs that Sergio’s mother was giving him. In the end, Mikel acts as the leak and tells their superiors what was happening, complete with a vial of the drug as proof which results in Cabrera getting arrested.
Why was Ana interested in Sergio?
Ana has been seen as extremely drawn to Sergio throughout the series. Muted showcases her to be obsessed with him, and it is hinted that she and her husband adopted Noa to know more about her brother. She was also Sergio’s mother’s assistant, so that connection brought her closer to him, in her eyes.
Towards the end, Ana’s erratic behaviour made everyone on her team uncomfortable. She went as far as to masturbate at the sight of Sergio and Marta having sex, watching the episode in uncomfortable detail, pushing her character as the crazed stalker.
In the sixth episode, it is revealed that she relates to Sergio’s lies – that no one understood her since her youth, and she never found herself anywhere. She further states that she feels like an outsider in her marriage and never really found that connection. Considering Sergio’s stories, she has made herself believe that they share a common ground together and they can understand each other like no other. Although they get extremely close a few times in the episode, it is quite clear that there is a barrier between them that she is unable to open her eyes and see.
After all the cops and Noa leave, Sergio goes to the fated balcony and takes Ana with her. Those watching the scene unfold on the hidden camera are left shocked, thinking that both of them might jump. But, in the end, a grainy shot shows one person standing on the balcony and one plummeting down the building and then landing to onlookers’ screams. It is hinted that Sergio recreated his previous crime and pushed Ana over.
Why did Eneko harass Sergio and Marta?
He was just a trash person and couldn’t take the fact that he couldn’t control Marta anymore. He leaked their intimate video and framed it as Marta having sex with Sergio in order to ruin her reputation and image so that she would come back to him. However, in the eighth episode, we are shown that Marta leaves him for good and leaves him sobbing on the sidewalk.
Muted is streaming on Netflix.
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I Like The Series Muted
I was hoping a clear ending for this ommoooo! I can’t believe it just ended like that ???? realy broke my heart ????
It was surreal watching that ending honestly!
I think his story is how it went because the video on Noa’s phone shows the meds and his mother calling him a monster and other names. And that was evidence of verbal abuse at least, and then to find the creepy hidden room where both parents I would guess watched him and took photos and made notes.
I think the story Noa says is the exact way Ana walked the events of that night since she was the one playing the role of his mother. So Noa had to have been traumatized and told this version of how her parents died because the police stated it as fact since he never talked.
This is a very interesting take on it! Thank you for sharing 🙂
I liked the series muted , however I really hope it wasn’t Sergio who died at the end and it was Ana who jumped to her death.. think there’s more to be learned by him and hope there’s a season 2 and more to follow and I think Noa ain’t really to sure what happend that night only what she heard the cops say and that’s what she played in her head over n over to believe that was the truth.
Noa might definitely have been traumatised from what she saw and made something up in her head to justify her parents’ actions.
And I also think that Ana fell from the balcony, but I think Sergio was the only who pushed her over.
I hope he didn’t kill Ana because she didn’t do anything but help him get to his sister I don’t think he was a killer because everytime he was going to kill someone someone always was able to stop him so when he was going to kill his mother why didn’t Noa stop him because he didn’t kill them I think the story he told was the truth and at the end he had nothing to live for so he jumped but the I think the gir that screamed was Greta so I think Ana jumped but I really do know but I would love to know cause that was the worst ending unless there will be a 2nd season
I was reading the replies to see if it occurred to anyone else besides me that Noa murdered her parents. Sergio was covering for her. Noa wanted Ana back and said what she said to draw Ana away from Sergio.
Noa has no aggressive behaviors…. She didn’t kill anyone
We don’t really know Noa we didn’t see her much , maybe she’s not aggressive but Sergio is right and she was on experiments drugs when she did it and then Sergio pushed them to cover for her or something
In the first episode after the murder, Sergio is shown looking for Noa and Noa can been seen hiding in her room. So I don’t think Noa is telling the truth, and Sergio calms her down by saying it’s over.
ThoSe are my exact thoughts!
I thought that all through too and thought that was the reason Sergio didn’t speak about it or say he didn’t do it. But then why would Noa have murdered them as she wasn’t having violent outbursts, Sergio was. Then again, Sergio’s story about the mother medicating Noa is a bit suss, as she wasn’t having outbursts. And even if he didn’t kill any of the people that he got the blame for, he almost did and would have if he hadn’t been prevented by someone intervening.He showed no remorse when he pushed the father down the stairs and didn’t even check to see if he was ok. And he did show that he was capable of getting so carried away with rage he would kill in various scenes. At the end it’s a wonder he didn’t attack Ana earlier when he found she was doing the same spying on him just as his Mother did to him.
That would make a lot of sense. Her version did not add up to what we saw on tapes. The mom was very clearly abusive. We know the tapes were facts, the only time he looked bad was when they were playing her version.
I believe that Sergio did kill both of his parents in a derange manic episode, but he was 100% being experimented on by his mother. I think he was being used as a case study or sort of clinical trial as a “subject ” for the drug his mother had created. And I think the lab company didn’t want all this controversy and revelations because eventually they were going to take the dangerous drug to market. That’s why Cabrera was paid to kill Ana’s investigation (to uncover the real reason behind the murders) and get back Sergio to jail under the same previous understanding with nothing to do with the drugs.
I felt like, if he killed his parents, and was on/off medication, you could say he was unstable and that caused him to do it.
Assumably, he wasn’t on anything at the end. If he pushed Ana, it would prove he was a monster. This would support the story of the mom wanting to help him and medicating him.