YMMV / Boundless (2022)

• Audience-Alienating Premise: In a repeat from Amazon's previous Spanish historical series El Cid (2020), due to a combination of rumored historical licenses and misguided political promotion, many potential viewers were turned away from the product.
• Bile Fascination: A lot of early viewers were history buffs wanting to check out for themselves how much and in how many ways had the series butchered real history.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Elcano de izquierdas"^note "Left-wing Elcano". A quote from an interview in newspaper El Mundo with actor Álvaro Morte (Elcano), who claimed to be deliberately giving a "left-wing leaning, non-totalitarian" portrayal of Elcano so the character would not be politicized. This provoked a huge negative reaction, with people noting the glaring contradiction and voicing mistrust for the whole product's quality. Historical fiction writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte, as usual on those topics, would also snark at it.
  • There was some inter-review derision at the fact that, due to a mix of technical sound failure and actors who mumble and murmur all the time, it's genuinely difficult to understand the dialogues even for Spanish viewers.
• Money-Making Shot: Although viewers often criticized the series' visuals and sound, namely the deficient sound management and the director's penchant to shoot scenes at night, the battle against the Portuguese in the Canarian islands was considered a high point, making an excellent usage of the dark and the fog for an atmospheric, Nothing Is Scarier effect.
• Spiritual Adaptation: It's absolutely out of the question that the writers of this film weren't familiar with the 2019 CGI movie Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World, given that this series happens to reproduce step by step all of its original plot points and artistic licenses, down to Elcano being a talented pilot running away from justice.
• So Okay, It's Average: Critics generally did acknowledge the series was entertaining and had some decent moments, but they were outweighed by those noting it was still nothing to write home about in any field, with its grades in Spanish reviewing site Filmaffinity sitting at 4,6/10. There was also a certain sentiment that it was a huge lost chance, especially for the 500th anniversary of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan.
• Tainted by the Preview: As said above, the series repeated the history of El Cid (2020), attracting a very detrimental controversy through unfortunate political statements.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: A recurrent complaint in less than friendly reviews was how the series, stylistically and in its portrayal of the Spaniards, felt more like a shaggy pirate film a la Pirates of the Caribbean rather than one about a royal exploration expedition.

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