In the Bob Pop series there are four Bobs.
Three plus the creator of Maricón Perdido, who tells himself. And of the three Bobs-no-Bobs, one is absolutely fictional: a literary alter ego. This might seem like a mess and yet it is
what anchors the viewer to the truth of a series that constantly jumps in narrative time
: the adolescent Bob (Gabriel Sánchez), the young man (Carlos González) and the current one, who is interpreted Likewise. More Daniel Bayona, who stars in a fiction within fiction. Different faces for the same character that help the viewer to position himself each time that
Lost Fagot
changes third.
Berto Romero and Enric Pardo, responsible for the wonderful
Look what you've done
, collaborate so that Bob Pop's script for TNT, the first he writes, works like clockwork without ever losing the essence of its creator, protagonist and soul.
Not only are the times of
Fagot lost
are elusive, so is its quantity:
the series does not reach three hours in total.
That is all the workspace Bob and Enric have to tell a whole life.
Or, more than a life, an idea: that of someone who does not finish finding his place
. But in the end, as we all know, he did find it. With Pedro Almodóvar acting as the demigod of Bob Pop's personal altar (and many others, myself included),
Maricón Perdido
builds one of the strangest, most endearing and perfect television moments in recent years. It is the closing of
a journey through the memory of a lucid and angry man, brave and calm.
, which in six half-hour episodes has known how to communicate things that would take months of footage for others:
helplessness, freedom, hope, despair, fear and joy.
Fagot
has missed a
lot of liberating reckoning with memory
. As Almodóvar says in his final episode, when you write a story it already has a life of its own. Even if that story was yours before it was written. Your life.
Lost fag
is the life of Bob Pop and as such is a delicate and uncomfortable artifact that, however, hardly weighs.
The TNT series is also a vindication of the existence remembered as the only real possession of each one: it is the memory of my mother and I tell it as I want (that Candela Peña almost by John Waters), it is the memory of my father and I cancel it as I want (Carlos Bardem never showing his face to the camera) ...
The narrative structure of
Maricón perdido
is scattered but solid.
His concept, however, is much more complex.
This is a series about being a fag but also about being fat, about being independent but also about needing others, about wanting to fit in and at the same time about rebelling against that drive.
We can only define the Bob Pop series, literally and figuratively, as the Bob Pop series.
I don't know if that is an author, what I do know is that telling a life is not easy and Bob has told it wonderfully.
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