Desperate, I ask my friend Natalia Marcos, who is as professional as she is a good person, what series I can watch without falling asleep or cutting my veins. Something primal, visible and audible. And since she doesn’t have identical tastes, she’s so honest that she assures me that I could really like The Manager, a Disney+ series created by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, two Argentinian gentlemen who own The Illustrious Citizen and Official Competition , two guys, was signed by films claiming to have blades in their brains, convinced that humans are complex and can gracefully fling themselves into perfidy when survival calls for it. They invent tasty dialogues and situations, they have a grateful bad host, they are special.
And I smile and laugh a lot on his show. The thing about the name The Manager is amorphous and cautious to me. It focuses on a bouncer, a term that may seem derogatory, although one could also call him a janitor without insulting those mentioned. And they tell me that there have been statements by the union in Argentina against the image they are giving of them in this series. Sorry I’m really enjoying it. The protagonist is the bouncer in a luxury development in Buenos Aires. He knows all about the tenants, but they’re trying to get him out. Mission impossible for his Machiavellian intelligence.
I smile and laugh at these taxidermists of masters and slaves who pretend to preserve their forms, where the slaves are far smarter than the owners. I can add this series to the enjoyment I have had from the excellent books The White Lotus and The Romanoffs. My intelligence feels respected by them.
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