Alberto and Laura Caballero are experts in sharpening characters by radicals, pathetic border and provoke laughter for the disgrace they inflicted on the people. They did it in titles like ‘La que se avecina’ (just remember guys like Antonio Recio), ‘Aquí no hay quien viva’ and ‘El pueblo’ and now Repeat the formula in their first series ‘Machos alta’ for NetflixAn entertaining comedy that shows your 4 forty-year-old friend completely losing his balance with masculinity crises.
all of them losing their thrones and privileges as alpha males they are used to. Years ago they would have been complete leaders in charge of their relationships, jobs and lives… but in an age of equality they had to live under new rules that they didn’t understand (or didn’t want to understand). because they were doing just as good a job anyway). But the problem is that society has changed and they have been forced into it. adapt to new times. “Those are situations that might not have sounded bad 15 years ago, but that’s not the case now,” says Raúl Tejón, who plays one of the protagonists to whom his girlfriend (Kira Miró) makes an unexpected proposal.
The other three friends are played by Fernando Gil as a television director with labor problems; Gorka Otxoa as a divorced father with a young daughter (Paula Gallego) and Fele Martínez (as his wife Raquel Guerrero correctly describes in the series), who plays a local police officer married with an “artichoke libido”. . “These are four very different types that allow conflicts to be very diverse.‘, as Martínez evaluates himself, Gil says, is to see how his character ‘turns a winner into a loser overnight and reinvents himself in someone who is used to winning all the time. He sums up the actor as he talks about how he served to “face a Miura like him in the void.”
personal experiences
The Caballero brothers are taking advantage of this. humor to tackle a subject as intricate as sexism and toxic masculinitywhich is in our daily conversation. In fact, its creators admit that it is the series where they bring together the most personal experiences. But they do it out of humor, which gives them more leeway. “Comedy takes off your armor with a laugh. It’s a good time to take a deep load and open you melons. This series is more about discussion than lecture,” says Fernando Gil.
His partner, María Hervás, sees him the same way. “You should laugh at all this because otherwise it will result in rejection.. If you want to separate the typical alpha males from aggression, they turn the band off. But if you make a joke, maybe one day they watch the fifth episode and they say: Come on, what he does is what I do often! That would be a success,” says the actress.
10 episodes of 30 minutes
Repeating with Caballeros after ‘El pueblo’, Hervás emphasizes that the show does not only criticize the established roles of toxic masculinity. “Also sometimes the things we women, educated in the same patriarchy, get.” But the success of the series is that even if the characters are wrong, “blood is not made with them“As Raúl Tejón points out. “As pathetic as they are, they show us so human, we can empathize with them and even be ashamed of others,” he adds.
The fact that María Hervás is one of the main characters isn’t the only nod to the series creators’ previous games, as there are “cameo” of actors in related roles like Nathalie Seseña, Luis Merlo, and Santi Millán. “La que se avecina” and “El pueblo”. But there are similarities because even the episodes have little to do with duration: Each of the 10 episodes of ‘Alpha Males’ is only 30 minutes long.