Controversial series finale (3): ‘Los Serrano’, what if everything, everything, everything is a dream?

After all, it started with little Curro (Jorge Jury) Santa Justa’s favorite churrero was consumed with guilt for crushing Paquito and leaving him unconscious. Worse still, Curro and his colleague have escaped. “When you get old, you discover one day that nothing and no one can stop you from being alone in life.”reflects the child with a closed voice. But he is not completely alone, he has a foster father, Diego (Antonio Resins), who can blame himself for releasing his brother, Santiago, who was wrongfully arrested (Jesus Bonilla) and then Curro himself finally discovered the inevitable punishment.

And that, in the end, somehow ended. Pure restlessness, not exempt from the hallucinogenic air. Some ends happily tied: Raúl (alejo sauras) and Africa (Alexandra Jimenez) melted back into the embrace of love and the second baby of Lourditas (Goizalde Nuñez) with ham master Santiago. Also Tete (natalia sanchez) and Guille (Victor Elijah) He seemed to have a bright horizon in Barcelona, ​​but for Diego, this escape was not a victory but another example of how badly he had done everything as a patriarch.

weird family photo

With Curro arrested and Guille on the way to Las Ramblas, Diego hastily decided to take his own life by jumping off a bridge. I opened my eyes again, and in principle not in the afterlife, but here in an alternative where the woman who lost forty episodes ago (Lucía, played by Belén Rueda) would still be alive. The mysteries of the universe, or rather some fugitive writers, gave him the opportunity to do things better.. Again, the morning after the wedding day. The whole gang is at home. Happiness must be complete. But at least for the audience, This family photo is disturbing, because the youngest actors are characterized as children (braided schoolgirl Teté, Curro almost in a baby chair), and everything exudes a terrible artificiality..

In other words, what should have been imagined as a surprising, emotional, light-filled ending had more than one thing. The strange return of producer Hammer’s “Unknown dimension” or legendary “Mystery”. Even today, thinking about that ending gives you chills. Have Daniel EcijaÁlex Pina, co-creator of the series with another “hit producer”, Álex Pina, seems to remember this with some concern: “There was a moment when I could go back, if I could go back,” he recently said in “El País” about the personal motivation of that last comeback. “And I didn’t measure… Of course it made noise.”

Controversial precedents

The idea of ​​’everything was a dream’ is pervasive in narratives of all genres and formats. In the drama space, before ‘Los Serrano’, some had dared to end all seasons like this. When patrick duffy to give permission “Dallas”Bobby Ewing was hit by a car (almost as happened to churrero Paquito), but the drop in audience numbers forced the actor to recover and turn an entire season into a Pam dream (Main Victory). On the other hand, at the end of ‘Roseanne’, the ninth and final season of Connors enjoying the lottery prize turned out to be just the plot of a book written by the protagonist. Actually, Dan (John Goodman) died of a heart attack at the end of the eighth season..

What’s seen in ‘Los Serrano’ is even more daring: we’re not talking about an imaginary season, but a whole, whole, whole series that saves the first fifteen minutes of the wedding. His condition is perhaps only comparable to that of the ‘Hospital’, another sherry who made the sound. Finally, Tommy (Chad Allen), Dr. Westphall’s autistic son (Ed Flanders), as he went to wash his hands, he shook a snowball and dropped it on the TV. The camera zoomed in and we saw what was inside the ball: St. Petersburg, the hospital at the center of the action. A copy of Eligius. In other words, the whole series was lived in the mind of an autistic child. It is impossible not to talk about such endings..