Alberto Rey

Updated Monday, March 25, 2024-07:49

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Nothing better than a heavy voiceover

to

screw up a series.

See you in another life

has a voice-

over

. And it is invasive, overexplanatory and, at times, almost ridiculous. How can it be that the narrator of the series speaks with such calmness and, above all, with such precision? However, in the new series by Jorge and Alberto Sánchez Cabezudo, creators of

Crematorio

and

La zona

, the artifice works. The Disney+ series adapts

Manuel Jabois

' book

See You in This Life or the Next

and, consciously and respectfully, maintains its premises.

The main narrator of

See You in Another Life

is Gabriel Montoya Vidal,

Baby

, a boy who, at the age of 16, became the first person convicted of the jihadist attacks of March 11, 2004 in Madrid. But this lost child (and later an adult as hell) is not the true protagonist of the series.

See you in another life

tries to explain one of the most impossible characters in recent Spanish history. One who would have thought it would end there:

Emilio Trashorras, an indescribable being whose magnetism lies precisely in its improbability

. How did such an unstable guy manage to become a fundamental part of one of the most savage terrorist operations in history?

See you in another life

, in his own refutation of Hannah Arendt's banality of evil, he paints

Trashorras as the ultimate kamikaze

, as a deranged man who does not fear any type of consequence of his risky actions. A crazy demon.

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Trashorras was very lucky. And that, in a kind of bloodthirsty cosmic bargain, made the rest of Humanity have less. The story of 11-M is that of

the fatality of many

... and the fluke of one.

Enough time has passed to address Emilio Trashorras in those terms.

See you in another life

, without ever losing contact with reality, sometimes he allows himself the luxury of showing

how comical his most fascinating character is

. The Trashorras of Jabois and the Sánchez Cabezudo brothers is complex within its dangerous simplicity.

Pol López

(

Suro

,

This is not Sweden

), the actor chosen to play him, does an incredible job. It hasn't had to be easy for him to accept it or carry it to completion. Because Emilio Trashorras is not one of those attractive villains that allow actors to play and be crazy. He is one of the most terrible agents of chaos in contemporary Spain. He is an icon, a myth, a mistake, an enigma and a shame. In the hands of Jabois, López and the Sánchez Cabezudo, it is also a find.

See You in Another Life

is not a comfortable series.

It is difficult to face a fiction that, although it does not forget who did what, dares to show how a teenager can end up this bad, even worse. Not even her mother (a brilliant Tamara Casellas) could prevent

Baby

from condemning herself. Unfortunately, we all know her ending and why she had it. Now we also know a little more about the monster that made it possible.

And it's very scary.