Our lives are the rivers that flow into the sea, that’s the biopic. This could be the motto of Miguel Bosé, Nacho Vidal and Bárbara Rey, to name the last three names who have just made their lives in television fiction in Spain. Bosé (SkyShowtime) and Nacho (Atresplayer Premium) have just been released, and Cristo y Rey (Atresplayer Premium) has just finished airing.
Of course, the phenomenon of the television biography is not new, nor has it been edited in Spain, there we have the entire collection of biographical television films and mini-series produced at the beginning of the last decade, a tide that has ebbed, among other things, due to legal problems (see the Trial won by Isabel Pantoja against Mediaset for Mi gitana). At the same time, she is supported by an international rally. We can read Bosé in the wake of Luis Miguel (Netflix) and Nacho in that of Pam and Tommy (Disney+), although there’s no direct cause-and-effect relationship between ours and others.
The waters of the film and television biographies are stormy and have everything, like a pharmacy. We enjoyed three superb seasons of American Crime Story, which took the traditionally underrated genre to another level because it not only narrated its protagonists, but also the environment that created them. It must be celebrated that certain characters have understood that showing their shadows is not only more profitable, but also leads to better stories. At the same time, and to play a Carrie Bradshaw, I can’t help but wonder why it’s easier to show Bárbara Rey in bed with King Juan Carlos, as it happens in Christ and King, than to produce a fiction that resembles it Equivalent to Saving the King (HBO Max). I answer myself. How much remains to be said. You just have to let us.
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