The worst series of the week: Limbo and a wasted star

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There is a moment in

in which Clara Lago artfully

.

There you see that Lago, whose stardom nobody disputes, tries to get everything she can out of her character.

The actress tries hard, but the series does not give of itself.

Limbo looks like a

of a character from

, a very long "what will happen to..." that lasts 10 episodes in which the Spanish

with the script by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, creators of the cute

.

The movie with Penélope, Banderas and Oscar Martínez would probably have made for a more interesting series.

Unless your thing is

,

is not for you, because it drowns in its pretensions just like its protagonist in a traumatic past and a banal present.

In

Clara Lago is So (of Sofía), a rich Argentine heiress who returns to her country after the death of her father.

There she is reunited with her brothers (Mike Amigorena and Esteban Pérez), but also with a country that she left many years ago, a family business that does not interest her and, obviously, a past that she runs away from... because if not there is no series.

I'm afraid there wouldn't be one either without

and without

, fictions that have undoubtedly come to light more than once in the Limbo script room.

The first because of her ambition to quickly reach her target audience (So is still an aspirational character) and

.

It doesn't even come close to the subtlety of Jesse Armstrong's series portraying

, but it also doesn't have enough power to offer as well-made wealth porn as, for example,

.

It is in series like this that the abysmal difference in budgets managed in the US and in the rest of the world is most noticeable.

Not even in the UK or France, where the availability of opulent locations and

is evident, do they manage to transmit what lesser American series do.

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La So de

seems to have come out of one of those productions, so we easily empathize with her reluctance to spend in Cohn and Duprat's Buenos Aires

.

Clara Lago, like Marta Nieto, Bárbara Lennie, Melina Matthews or Susi Sánchez, is the kind of actress who makes cheap dresses look expensive.

Because she is a star.

Limbo

does very well with its magnetism, but those responsible should have better calculated the effect generated by an actress with a very expensive look in

as

.

So 's

, which narrates much of

, complains about her brothers calling her "So so".

That is to say:

, neither one nor the other, neither gladdens nor hinders, neither ask for it nor return it.

Clara Lago can be bland at times, but she has never been

.

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