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Alberto and Laura Caballero know that

, their series, is a feat.

Filling his very long footage with rhythm and humor is a constant feat.

That's why I wasn't so sure that working in a traditional short-episode

format would work out well for them.

What if they had formatted their heads for the lengthy episodes their network required?

I forgot that, like any self-respecting screenwriter, the Knights watch

,

,

,

,

or

.

They know how to do twenty-something minute-per-episode comedies because they've seen a lot.

The episodes of

, his new sitcom on

, are short.

And good.

What I never doubted is that when Alberto and Laura could work with uncomfortable subtexts they would know how to do it.

The multiple layers of humor and meta-humor in

attest to that.

It amuses me a lot (and also scares me a bit) that this fiction about lost machirulos is read literally by some viewers.

Let it be our

, our

.

They have been avoiding anyone who cites Tyler Durden or Jordan Belfort for many years without knowing that he is facing two satires.

And before two assholes.

Let's see who now starts to vindicate the

Pedro (

), the recognizable brat Raúl (

) or that Santi (

) who deep down knows that we know he was in

.

) will find less literal support

, since his story does not have an atom of aspirational and much of the creation of López Vázquez.

Between the four of them, they compose

, involving viewers in jokes made up of several layers.

Scratching the dandruff from its surface we find ourselves

.

Perhaps then there will be something sweet, but a comedy (and the Knights know this well) does not have to have that last happy aftertaste.

There was hardly any candy in

and there is hardly any in

, the other great Spanish television comedy of 2022, starring, oh coincidence, another unbearable forty-year-old.

Alpha males

have few pretensions in their first layer and are eager to bite in the second.

When we see Blanca (

) playing to provoke the most reactionary viewer, we discover, once again, that a good comedy has to go to bloodshed.

Or when

and

turn their characters into a mixture of what we expect from them as actresses and from

as a series...

And they turn it around.

Alberto and Laura Caballero offer

and has also seen many stories about the fight of the sexes.

It seems easy but it is as difficult as filling

episodes of more than an hour with jokes,

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