It was recommended in great praise. They had told me that the Argentine series Nada (Disney+) was tender, intelligent, funny and biting. You came out of it a better person, as they say. So mine is hopeless. After five episodes, I’m not feeling better at all and I hold a lot of resentment towards those who encouraged me to watch the series.
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The matter is quickly brought to the point: Manuel Tamayo Prats, a food critic and new dandy, the maid who has been with him all his life, dies and he has to learn to live in a Buenos Aires that is a metaphor for everything great , Hard is cities. and fascinating. Apparently Tamayo Prats is a tireless joker, but what he says is nothing more than commonplace. The character is a caricature of a misanthropic critic, apparently written by someone who has never met one. He is said to be a cross between Fernando Arrabal and Carlos Boyero from the documentary The Critic.
The Old Argentine Critic is supposed to be bittersweet, lonely, helpless and funny, but he almost never shows any evidence of this. The rest of the cast, who always seem clueless and waiting for the prompter to whisper, doesn’t help. Because I was bored, I thought of “El disenchantment” by Jaime Chávarri, and I had fun imagining how long Tamayo Prats would survive in the Astorga de los Panero house. They would tear it apart with aphorisms.
It can’t be a coincidence that the series is offered on Disney+, because it seems like the Disney version of a real misanthrope. Perhaps he likes it because it sugar-coats a personality made of bile that is inedible to the general public. Like bitter orange jam.
The story is told by Robert de Niro from New York (?). They make the poor guy say a lot of banalities, but since he says them in English and in the voice of Robert De Niro, they seem profound. And that’s it.
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