Based on Isabel Allende’s acclaimed 1982 novel and adapted for television by Francisca Alegría, Fernanda Urrejola and Andrés Wood, Prime Video ’s “ The House of the Spirits ” is a spectacular and heart-wrenching saga that chronicles three generations of women in the Trueba family. Beyond blood, these women are tied together by destiny and the decisions of the violent and tyrannical men surrounding them. Gorgeously filmed, the series is about family, passion, revenge and political unrest. The first Spanish-language adaptation of Allende’s novel is sensational, and long overdue. ​ Set in a deeply conservative South American country, which is not named, but is based on Chile, “The House of the Spirits” begins in the 1970s amid a violent, terrifying military coup. Alba ( Rochi Hernández ) arrives bloody and beaten at the gates of her towering family home in the nation’s capital. Weeping and overcome with grief, Alba is guided by the spirit of her late grandmother, Clara ( Dolores Fonzi ), to an old trunk.…