Atresplayer’s comedy synthesizes and brings out the best in the construction of the comic
Arturo Valls knows that it is not Javier Camara or Emilio Gutirrez Caba or anyone else who could come out in anti-disturbance. He is another type of actor, another type of star, another concept, another thing. Valleys is a showman cmico total and if he stars in a series, that series has to have that very clearly. two years and one dayhis project for Atresplayer TV, is that series.
A few weeks ago I ran into Valls on the street. He was accompanied by someone I know. I greeted that someone, but that someone was clueless and the one who returned my greeting was Arturo, who has only been introduced to me once and in a glancing way. Because Arturo Valls is that hyperpopular character used to everyone knowing who he is and a large part of that world greeting him. And he returns the greeting.
The characters of two years and one day They also know who Carlos Ferrer is. Sentenced to prison for religious offences, Ferrer (Valls) goes from being the most famous presenter in Spain to just another inmate in a peculiar prison with an even more peculiar director (Adriana Torrebejano). All Ferrer will have to survive as best he can.
Without negotiating or hiding its references to Oz and Orange is the New Black at any time, Two Years and a Day is a hilarious comedy, the perfect series for Arturo Valls. The writers and creators of him (Sergio Sarria, Luismi Prez, Ral Navarro and Miguel Esteban) have put at the service of their star all the findings of his previous series. There are in Two years and a day things from The People’s Queen, from The End of the Comedy, from Chapter 0 or from El Vecino. That hyper-spanish costumbrismo mixed with the universe Saturday Nigth Live American and its derivatives.
In his new series, Arturo Valls reveals himself to be a tremendously generous… and intelligent star. The showman knows well that it is impossible to compete in comic delirium with Javier Botet (that impossible genius) or in presence with Moreno Borja. They are also recluses in pink jumpsuits and, as in Oz and Orange is the New Black, they make a magnificent cast-stage with the ability to constantly absorb new names.
The big problem with Dos aos y un día is the same one that El Vecino had at the time: many of its potential viewers will not distinguish a priori what this series has that the thousand similar proposals that are produced in Spain do not have. At the same time, aren’t those thousand similar proposals the ones with the most chances of success?
Like the Quim Gutirrez and Clara Lago series for Netflix, Two Years and One Day has its own personality. It is gross when it has to be gross and subtle when it has to be subtle. As the canons of television comedy dictate, its chapters are short, its premise is crystal clear and its characters are everything. And his protagonist knows that if he doesn’t work, nothing will. But Arturo Valls works. May he never get out of jail.
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