‘Robbery is like a football match’: blockbuster binge-watch Money Heist bows out

Creator Alex Pina and others on the appeal of the Spanish series, which comes to an end on Friday

Four years of schemes, schematics, bullets, blasts, anti-capitalist allegory, remarkable contingency planning and wildly ill-advised workplace romances will come to an end on Friday with the release of the final five episodes of Netflix's blockbuster Spanish series La Casa de Papel.

The drama, known to English-speaking viewers rather more prosaically as Money Heist, follows the adventures of an inevitably motley crew of robbers who dress in red overalls and Salvador Dali masks to plunder the Royal Mint and then the Bank of Spain.