As soon as HBO Max premiered
The Trials
, my Twitter
timeline
was filled with mentions and comments about the series.
The first and most enthusiastic commentators were Spanish scriptwriters.
Both fiction and non-fiction.
Although sometimes, as in the case of The Trials, things get mixed up
.
I understand the fascination of TV professionals with this project.
Over his words she always planned the same question, a mixture of envy and surprise:
Ah, but this... can this be done?
It must be possible, because it has been done.
Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder has done it.
The Martian and extremely intelligent (and tremendously complicated to carry out) idea of his has become a reality.
Fielder's proposal, a former collaborator of Demetri Martin or Sacha Baron Cohen, is simple:
why not rehearse life?
That's
The Trials
.
In each of its episodes, a real person prepares for a real life event by previously inhabiting a controlled fiction that can be repeated and reset as needed until ready to face the real situation.
Fielder and his series will build sets, hire actors and prefabricate the reality of the protagonist of each episode
, creating in the process a reflection on chance and human nature.
Watching the first episode is much easier to understand.
Few things are better told than the mechanics of
The Trials
in the introduction of its first episode.
"Ah, but this... this can be done?"
it is something that many writers said at the time before
the first works of Charlie Kaufman
.
With his first screenplay,
Being John Malkovich
, Kaufman opened doors that others have gone through, widened, or even repainted in other colors
.
The wonderful
Everything at the same time everywhere
would not have been possible without Kaufman's film
.
There is also a lot of Kaufman in
The Essays
, but it would be unfair to take away Nathan Fielder's merit for having carried out such a project.
It could be done and it was done.
Now maybe others can too.
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