This week Juan Luis Álvarez focuses on some outstanding serials that have as protagonists characters who life has not treated particularly well, in a society in which success is everything. They are “Severe losers”, which, in fiction, allows us to create unforgettable roles.
JAKARTA Movistar 1 season 6 episodes
A former Olympic badminton player who survives by teaching physical education classes, divorced and without illusions, believes he will discover in a school tournament the diamond that can turn his life around: Mar, a teenage player who could be the ticket that will lead him to fulfill his dream of competing in Jakarta, the city where former players like him are respected as stars.
The best: The unwavering interpretations of Javier Cámara and Carla Quílez
Worst: In a season of great series here, it would be unforgivable for it to go unnoticed.
SUPERSTAR Netflix 1 Season 6 Episodes
The artistic beginnings of the singer Yurena, who became known as Tamara; a phenomenon that became a true popular icon of the early 2000s, after the release of the song ‘No cambié’ and its subsequent album ‘Superestar’.
The best: The actors who give life to those beings who cause so much pain, especially the protagonist.
Worst: That some of them have not yet realized that they were elevated to be jesters. They embroidered it.
CITY OF SHADOWS 1 Netflix seasons 6 episodes
A macabre crime has occurred in La Pedrera – Casa Milà: a burned body has appeared on the façade of Gaudí’s emblematic building. Inspector Milo Malart (Isak Férriz), until now suspended for indiscipline in the Mossos, returns to activity in Barcelona to, with the help of sub-inspector Rebeca Garrido (Verónica Echegui), try to find the perpetrator of the crime.
The best: The splendid farewell work by Verónica Echegui, very well accompanied by Isak Férriz. And Gaudí, forever.
Worst: Is the matter a little too gore?
