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With the Fácil

episodes

already available on Movistar Plus+,

Anna R. Costa

, its creator, can breathe easy: now anyone can approach her series and judge it with knowledge of the facts.

Consider, then, if Cristina Morales, author of

Easy Reading

, the novel (novel?) from which R. Costa starts, is right when she attacks the adaptation.

Or

if the comments of those who have seen in Natalia de Molina's interpretation a grotesque exercise

and in De Molina's own choice to play a neurodivergent woman a misunderstood act of inclusiveness are fair.

Now take a look at Marga's journey, her character, and think about whether it was feasible to give it to someone who was in reality what Marga is in fiction

.

And see how the

Easy

bet is anything but easy.

And to what extent his commitment to inclusivity, that word that we are already wearing out, is genuine and courageous.

The introspective scream that Cristina Morales launches in her overwhelming book,

Anna R. Costa has had to turn into characters, plot and dramatic conflict

.

A complex task that can only be carried out through an obsession with the idea, which the screenwriter acknowledges.

However, it is the extremely sharp scriptwriter's tools that the co-creator of

Arde Madrid

has that make the result what it is.

Easy

does not renounce the visceral aggressiveness of Morales's book, channeling it towards a clean and powerful capitular narration.

Cristina turned the lives of four girls with functional diversity into a wild and free text.

Anna has taken that text and given it new wings.

And narrative pulse.

And humour.

A model adaptation is that, exactly that.

Understand a book that is very book and turn it into a series that is very series.

It is the work of a specialized technician and artist to the limit.

We can say something similar about the interpretations that uphold

Fácil

.

Not only De Molina is stellar, but also Anna Castillo and, above all, Anna Marchessi and Coria Castillo.

And Bruna Cusi.

And Cesca Pinon.

And Albert Pla!

The apartment in Barceloneta where Marga, Nati, Patri and Ángeles live oozes so much life that it eliminates the temptation to reproach Anna R. Costa and her producers for not having opted for a documentary format to tell their story.

As if documentaries weren't also scripted fiction.

And as if

Fácil

was blacked out when it came to addressing tremendously uncomfortable topics: Marga's overflowing sexuality, Nati's past, Patri's future or the role of Ángeles in that family that is neither natural nor chosen.

But it is, and that is very clear to

Easy

.

"I feel more identified with them than with many series about normal women," said the friend with whom I watched the series.

I don't know if "normal" was the exact word she used, but you get my drift.

In

Fácil

they also say "normal" and "retarded" and "coño"

.

Not to do so would be cowardly and Anna R. Costa is not.

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