I would think twice about criticizing the innocence and optimism of a series like
From Another Place
(
AMC's
Dispatches from Elsewhere
) simply because it is fluffy and cozy.
The overdose of cynicism and sarcasm with which we now tend (tend) to approach almost everything has been revealed as a source of permanent dissatisfaction.
While
looking at everything with a lens of skepticism and suspicion protects us from good-natured attacks
on our intelligence like
Los Espabilado
, it can also
prevent us
from enjoying series like Jason Segel's,
a multi-colored adventure about love, friendship and good intentions.
From another place it is, like the forgotten (not for me)
Six Degrees
or
Gravity
,
a story of characters that should not intersect but do intersect.
And they get better.
Lonely people connecting with other lonely people.
Because sometimes fate is kind and the series also serve to remind us of this.
In
From another place
that destination is also a game that four strangers will play.
Why?
Because everything else that life offers them is sad, routine or gray.
Jason Segel plays one of those people.
But the one who became super popular as one of the protagonists of
How I Met Your Mother
is also a creator in From Another Place.
His series is humble at heart but ambitious in form, with its dreamlike atmospheres and scenography halfway between Wes Anderson's retro-vintage-cuteness and the cooler Tim Burton's mauve nightmare.
Seeing
from another place
is an enjoyment.
The presence of Sally Field in this series reminds us of (the existence of)
Maniac
.
Netflix's fiction was weighed down by its blatant ambition to be all-important, groundbreaking and revolutionary.
The play was regular and
Maniac
was soon deflated.
From another place
, on the other hand, it never finished swelling,
which gives rise to a beautiful metaphor (a series that does not want to get in the way) but also produces some pain.
Because it is a good series.
And pretty.
Corny?
Could be.
But analyze your gaze first before saying something like that.
You are still happening.
The same we are happening.
We are still making the world worse, criticism after criticism, sarcasm after sarcasm, ridicule after ridicule.
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