• Arturo Valls "Even the most stupid and useless is directing a company, a party or a country"

Arturo Valls knows that he is not Javier Cámara or Emilio Gutiérrez Caba or anyone who can appear in

Riot Control

.

He is another kind of actor, another kind of star, another concept, something else.

Valls is a

total comic

showman

and if he stars in a series, that series has to have that very clearly.

Two years and one day

, his project for Atresplayer TV, is that series.

A few weeks ago I ran into Valls on the street.

He was accompanied by someone I know.

I greeted that someone, but that someone was clueless and the one who returned my greeting was Arturo, who I've only been introduced to once and on the side.

Because Arturo Valls is

that hyperpopular character used to everyone knowing who he is and a large part of that world greeting him

.

And he returns the greeting.

The characters of

Dos años y un día

also know who Carlos Ferrer is.

Sentenced to prison for religious offenses, Ferrer (Valls) goes from being the most famous presenter in Spain to just another inmate in

a peculiar prison with an even more peculiar director

(Adriana Torrebejano).

There Ferrer will have to survive as best he can.

serial killer

Series.

'Only murders in the building', my gang

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'Only murders in the building', my gang

Series.

'Westworld', the most beautiful mess in the world

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'Westworld', the most beautiful mess in the world

Without negotiating or hiding at any time its references to Oz and Orange is the New Black, Dos años y un día is a hilarious comedy, the perfect series for Arturo Valls.

The writers and creators of it (Sergio Sarria, Luismi Pérez, Raúl Navarro and Miguel Esteban) have put at the service of their star all the findings of their previous series.

There are in Two years and a day things from The People's Queen, from The End of the Comedy, from Chapter 0 or from El Vecino.

That

hyper-Spanish costumbrismo

mixed with the universe of American

Saturday Night

Live and its derivatives.

In his new series, Arturo Valls reveals himself to be a tremendously generous... and intelligent star.

The showman knows well that it is impossible to compete in comic delirium with Javier Botet (that impossible genius) or in presence with Moreno Borja.

They are also recluses in pink jumpsuits and, like in Oz and Orange is the New Black, they make a magnificent cast-stage with the ability to constantly absorb new names.

The big problem with Dos años y un día is the same as El Vecino had at the time: many of its potential viewers will not distinguish a priori what this series has that the thousand similar proposals that are produced in Spain do not have.

At the same time, aren't those thousand similar proposals the ones with the most chances of success?

Like the series by Quim Gutiérrez and Clara Lago for Netflix, Dos años y un día has its own personality.

It is gross when it has to be gross and subtle when it has to be subtle.

As the canons of television comedy dictate, its chapters are short, its premise is very clear and its characters are everything.

And its protagonist knows that if he doesn't work, nothing will.

But Arturo Valls works.

May he never get out of jail.

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