After three decades of trying, filmmaker Luis Estrada has adapted Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s Las muertas into a fearless Netflix series. The Three-Decade Wait Ends at Mexico’s Temple of CinemaFor Luis Estrada, director of La ley de Herodes and El infierno, the adaptation of Las muertas has been his white whale. I lacked nothing,” Estrada told EFE. “But it’s still very much with us.” In Las muertas, corruption is not a subplot; it is the atmosphere in which the crimes breathe. Politics in the Frame, Not Just the DialogueEstrada has always preferred satire by implication, and Las muertas continues that method.