Monegal’s review: When TVE travels with us and we have fun

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Julia Otero invited, without any explicit reference to the television currently being made, without any comparison to the current TVE’s drift. Javier Gurruchaga In ‘Días de tele’ he shot footage of ‘Journey with Us’ in 1988, and the comparison between TVE 30 years ago and TVE today is unstoppable, colossal and terrifying.

The file is as devastating as it is spectacular when used wisely and correctly. Now, in 2023, watching those “sketches” of “Journey With Us” has become a “shot” for the audience. A memory we sleep with for the old is a surprisingly clear discovery for the young. that moment Santiago Carrillo That little Felipe González with a wig and guruchagadisguised Victoria Prego, Seeing her so small, she said to him: “President, it’s obvious that power is very corrosive!“. The following series by Els Joglars BoadellaOne pujol Pockets are full of bills with the blessing of La Moreneta montserratina, who the Virgin speaks and turns out to be the voice of the brave ‘Mother’, Scarlet O’Hara’s maid in Gone with the Wind. ..

Ah! It was wonderful to see everything now turned upside down in the current TVE. they asked guruchaga How could such a groundbreaking, iconoclastic, disrespectful television be produced? answered: “For the chance to have a general manager named Pilar Miró at TVE”. Indeed, the name pillar miro There’s a lot of flying in this first season of Days of TV. This director was crushed for his efforts to make TVE open and free television. But he did while on duty. remembered guruchaga There is a compromise: “He just said don’t mess with the King or the Armed Forces”. Everything else is the open bar. And above all, with that layer of histrionic buffoon that Gurruchaga knows how to cleverly interpret to fluidize the stage daring he’s achieved.

“A good television director protects the below and resists the pressures of the above”, said Julia Otero with admiration I look. These ‘TV Days’, which showed us what TVE dared to do in the ’80s, must have offended the rulers today. The contrast is scary. And sad.

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