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From here I send
all my love and all my support
to those responsible for the translation and dubbing into Spanish of
Girls5eva
.
Meredith Scardino's series has the first untranslatable joke in its title.
Produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, this comedy has a lot from the previous ones of this tandem.
There's a lot of
Rockefeller Plaza
and
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
in it :
silly humor, surrealism, crazy pop references
and, ahem, hard-to-translate puns.
Released in Spain with a lot of delay (Netflix already brings it to us with two seasons) Girls5eva is hilarious.
The adventures of a
girl band
that decides to return to music almost 30 years after their first and only success are a rapid succession of crazy situations.
Although, as was the case especially in
Rockefeller Plaza
, the original version is infinitely better than dubbed.
This always happens, I know, but how do I translate expressions like "
my fiancée Feyonce
" or the lyrics of
The Rural Juror
into Spanish , the
indescribable (and unpronounceable, that's the funny thing) song with which
Rockefeller Plaza
ends
.
In Girls5eva there is also a lot of music, because the series is about that.
Hence, in its cast we find fantastic voices like those of Sara Bareilles or Renée Elise Goldsberry, star of the musical
Hamilton
who we could see in
The Good Wife
.
The other
girls
are two
top comedic actresses
: Busy Philipps and Paula Pell.
I'm missing one, I know, but I don't want to make
spoilers
.
Navigating their lives between their 40s and 50s (or is it their 60s?) as best they
can, Girls5eva
decide to give it one more try.
This time they will do it their way.
Empowered, as some would say now
.
That same concept-word is also the target of the series, which leaves no puppet with a head.
Without insisting at any time on being a comedy with "serious" subtexts,
Girls5eva
does a magnificent job portraying the contradictions and bullshit of being a woman and/or an artist and/or not so young anymore
.
Taking advantage of the fact that, like any female pop combo, the one in the series relies on stereotypes, Meredith Scardino plays with them: the smart one, the silly one, the self-conscious, the diva... She also does it in her own way, knowing the joke that the Spectator expects at each moment and giving it... or not.
At this point, it is not easy to make a light comedy with an easy premise fresh, original and relevant.
Girls5eva
does this by daring to make sensitive references like 9/11 or sexual harassment.
And all of that
without directly mentioning the Spice Girls
.
But in the fast-paced world of Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Meredith Scardino, that's about as far as it goes.
They know that we know and they play it to the end.
Girls5eva
asks us to get on her roller coaster of wit and bullshit.
She also appreciates that we know English.
I send from here all my thanks to my multiple teachers of that language.
Now I can enjoy
Girls5eva
100%, so all that studying and all that spending was worth it.
It was worth
the pity
.
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