If something is clear in the stormy sea of television series, it is that Daniel Écija has a special feel for what is called popular culture. His credits include series such as “Los Serrano”, “Águila Roja” and “Aida”, which have a long history in this medium. Now his latest creation, Debts, is broadcast on La Sexta, with two great actresses as protagonists and strong rivals in fiction: Carmen Maura (Pepa Carranza) and Mona Martínez (Consuelo de la Vega), who, by the way, eat everything that moves on screen, although De la Vega spends the 13 episodes of the first season in a wheelchair.
Of course, it is a truism to discover Carmen Maura, if anything, it should be noted that in debt she reminds us of the glory of “What have I done to deserve this?”, which is still paradoxical since it is a granddaughter of the actress is Count of Fuente Nueva de Arenzana, grandniece of Antonio Maura and related to Jorge Semprún, who finds her best performances as a proletarian housewife. What can be said about Mona Martínez is that she has been working on the sets and stages of half of Spain for more than 20 years and that in the series she is Maura's equal, which is no small feat.
The plot is based on Pepa Carranza's considerable guilt from an unhappy marriage to a Venezuelan Tarambana, who takes advantage of the paralyzed widow to finally put an end to her rival: “Let's sew with the nuns,” says De la Vega, “Yours Damn mother will sew with the nuns,” Carranza replies. And here we are.
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