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Supergarcía does not address the latest media controversy of José María García: the categorical cancellation in 2021 of Reyes de la noche, the magnificent series by Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor, is not part of the Movistar + documentary series. Since García's involvement in the closing of that fiction freely and cheerfully inspired by his story is not official, Supergarcía, produced by the same platform as Reyes, decides not to address it. That's my soft theory. I have a harder one.

That Paco el Cóndor and Jota Montes (some superlatives Javier Gutiérrez and Miki Esparbé) were transcripts of José María García and José Ramón de la Morena was so shameless that it does not even quote. The plot of Kings of the night was based on real events on the one hand and, on the other, in which many of its viewers entered their fun game from the first moment.

That also happens with Supergarcía. The three episodes of the documentary series by Charlie Arnaiz and Alberto Ortega, responsible for the great Anatomy of a Dandy and Raphaelism, tell the character well. They do it, yes, with their participation, something that smells like guardianship. The guy, yes, of fool does not have a hair: in Supergarcía his greatness is nuanced and his miseries, although not explored in depth, do appear. Not all, of course. His supposedly pathetic anger at Kings of the Night is not even mentioned. Paradoxically, for those of us who remember that well (especially because it happened just two years ago), its omission in Supergarcía makes sense. Not talking about it, Garcia keeps the urban legend.

"When I tell lies, I turn them into truth," Lola Flores said. José María García, whose folkloric dimension is similar, had a similar superpower: for his millions of followers his word was gospel, his bravado Iberian courage and his orders, quality content. You don't have to be interested in sports information (I'm not interested in it at all) to admire the figure of that little man who oscillated between the necessary journalism and pure football gossip. Between the two extremes lies one of Spain's most swampy terrains: the omnipresence of football in the highest economic and political spheres. And vice versa. In that quagmire José María García moved like a fish in the (stagnant) water.

Supergarcía does deal with this issue, relying on testimonies that lived the time next to Butanito. To no one's surprise, most of these testimonies are summarized in "in favor of García, but...", well aware that the most famous, powerful, controversial and highest-paid sports journalist in the history of Spain will not be buried until he dies.

Supergarcía is a mixture of good documentary and twilight self-hype. Whether you handle the character depends on whether you perceive one more than the other. Either way, absolute personajazo. Supergarcía is elevated, creeping, coherent, kamikaze, pop and trash at the same time. Your series(s). also.

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