Smiley, the worst series of the week: gay banality

's journey

began in a small theater in Barcelona in 2012. Ten years later, the story of two boys

is a series.

Along the way, innocence is not the only thing he has lost.

Among the spectators who enjoyed it at the time in the Flyhard room

.

Today that android is one of the artificial intelligences with which we play to see if they can write, draw or lead the rebellion of the machines.

An AI that received the following command: “turn this into a series”.

The result premiered a few days ago on Netflix.

No, the above is not true.

Sign

the author of the play,

, who with the excuse that it was about time to have commercial romantic comedies starring two gay men, gets on the bandwagon that worked so badly for the

recent

The promotional insistence on the novelty of the project made

forget that as a romantic comedy it was passable and, above all, sellable.

hasn't been too heavy on promoting herself, but she did believe that her quirk might hide her shortcomings.

Some derive from the

, others from the confidence in a guaranteed captive audience and the odd one from ignoring that at this point in the film we have already seen many better series.

's protagonists

are a mix of

.

Bruno (Miki Esparbé) is serious, calm and boring;

Àlex (Carlos Cuevas) is frivolous, nocturnal and hedonistic.

Their relationship, conveniently forced through the rules of romantic comedy, is a neither with you nor without you passed through the filter of what some homosexual urbanites believe to

incapable of looking outside their claustrophobic bubble.

But everything is to be more commercial, of course.

Anything to

.

This desire to be accessible also explains why Albert Triola and Ramón Pujol, the protagonists of the theatrical Smiley, are not in the series (Triola) or are relegated to a wasted secondary character (Pujol).

Netflix's Bruno and Àlex are Miki Esparbé on automatic pilot and Carlos Cuevas, again in a character designed to warm up that theoretical homosexual urbanite to whom the series is directed and whose story is undoubtedly more interesting than that of Bruno and Àlex.

To fill time and hide his

,

includes other characters and plots.

Nothing original or noteworthy, but that has never been the problem of any romantic comedy.

That Netflix's new gay comedy is goofy and shallow isn't a bad thing.

That it be

in it, yes.

Smiley

would have been a milestone if he explored his ideas with a minimum of

.

Or if his humor was less sloppy.

Or if a computer program had told him: "Don't try too hard with these guys, you won't have the strength to set up Skynet later."

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