If your ideal Netflix binge involves scandal, suspiciously attractive rich people, and episodes short enough to squeeze in during a coffee break, Between Father and Son may be your next guilty pleasure.

The new Mexican thriller, which premiered on Netflix on May 13, takes the familiar ingredients of a glossy erotic mystery — forbidden attraction, a wealthy family with too many secrets, a vanished first wife, and enough loaded eye contact to fuel an entire telenovela — and packages them into 20 bite-sized episodes, each running about 10 minutes.

In other words, you can finish the whole season in about the time it takes to watch a feature film. But thanks to its cliffhanger-heavy structure, the series is clearly designed to turn “one more episode” into an automatic response rather than a conscious choice.

Created by Pablo Illanes, Between Father and Son (originally titled Entre Padre e Hijo) follows Bárbara, a successful attorney who accompanies her fiancé Álvaro to his sprawling family estate. Once there, she meets his son Íker and quickly realizes something about this family is deeply unsettling. As long-buried secrets begin to emerge — including the unresolved disappearance of Álvaro’s first wife, Fernanda — Bárbara is pulled into a tangled web of deception, obsession, and increasingly complicated emotions.

And yes, the title is every bit as provocative as it sounds.

Led by Pamela Almanza, Erick Elías, and Graco Sendel, the series fully embraces its over-the-top sensibilities. Expect candlelit bedrooms, ominous corridors, and dramatic pauses so intense that nearly every glance feels charged with either lust, suspicion, or both.

That said, viewers anticipating nonstop erotic spectacle may want to recalibrate their expectations.

While the series certainly delivers flashes of sensuality and plenty of simmering tension, much of the story is devoted to unraveling what really happened to Fernanda and figuring out which members of this wealthy clan are telling the truth. Think less 365 Days and more “What, exactly, is going on in this very attractive and deeply cursed mansion?”

The micro-series format is both the show’s hook and its secret weapon. Each episode is built around a revelation, confrontation, or particularly charged stare, making the series remarkably easy to devour even when the plot drifts into delightfully soapy territory. The storytelling may not leave much room for nuance, but it moves with the kind of relentless momentum that makes stopping feel almost impossible.

And that’s likely by design.

With Between Father and Son, Netflix appears to be leaning into the ultra-short serialized format popularized by mobile drama apps and social media cliffhangers. The result is a thriller built for viewers who like their mysteries sleek, seductive, and packed with enough twists to keep them clicking “Next Episode” until suddenly it’s lunchtime.

If you’re looking for a meticulously crafted mystery with airtight logic, this may not become your newest obsession. But if you’re in the mood for a fast, frothy thriller that delivers scandal, suspense, and just enough steam to keep things interesting, Between Father and Son is an undeniably bingeable distraction.