Every now and then you have to go back to
Homeland
.
To its trapping plots, but also to
its exemplary portrait of mental disorders.
Carrie Mathison's bipolarity is very important in the Alex Gansa and Claire Danes series.
Homeland
also toured the illness of its protagonist over several seasons, subjecting it to extremes that, thank goodness, only usually occur in series.
But the substrate is recognizable and unfortunately close.
Homeland
did a lot of things wrong throughout its eight seasons.
Frivolizing with psychiatry is not one of them.
The Hustlers
only have one season and has already gotten into that garden
.
The one to think about mental disorders lightly.
The series by Albert Espinosa does it for Movistar + from a tortuous place because of the puerile:
what if freedom really were the cure for everything that happens in the heads of some teenagers interned in a center?
Nice idea if you stay in a nerd rubble or a mug with an optimistic message.
It would be more harmless there.
And it is not that in
Los Espabilados
that thesis is especially harmful, but raising it is in itself
an act of trivialization of something very serious.
Albert Espinosa, a peculiar author whose experience as a sick child supports everything he touches, insists in this series with his recurring ideas: childhood as a place of innocence and possibility, enlightenment through illness and the utopia of a better world, not contaminated by adults.
They are themes that have made him one of the best-selling authors.
Also in one of the most questioned.
Your safe conduct?
That he was there and has more right than anyone to use his experiences to create his own universe
.
I will not be the one who takes away that right (it would only be missing) but there is nothing wrong with pointing out that his gaze on childhood and early youth is neither so clean nor so innocuous.
His children escaped from perverse adult therapists are
a Manichean fable that is best left there.
I see
Los Espabilado
and, between attack and attack of other people's shame (why do those children talk like that? Why are all adults cartoons? Why does the series treat us as if we were short? Why?) It
comes to me the head the Gari de
Vida Perfecta
.
Written by Leticia Dolera and Manuel Burque and interpreted with sensitivity and forcefulness by Enric Auquer, Gari is
an innovative, sincere and courageous vision of a reality as little treated as the children's mental problems of
Los Espabilados
.
What in the latter is ignorance and trivialization, in
Perfect Life
is curiosity and humble exploration.
Well of course I would like what Albert Espinosa and his series propose to be true.
Or at least inspiring.
But is not.
On the contrary: it is quite dangerous.
I wish freedom would heal children's heads.
I wish Carrie Mathison's bipolarity was bullshit.
And I wish
Los Espabilado
was a cup.
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