‘Little Faith’, Movistar’s drama about the funny side of a couple in crisis

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Pepón Montero and Juan Maidagan By making the Spanish version, they have already proven that they are experts in removing the humorous vein from the most common situations of everyday life. ‘Camera cafe’. The couple is now smiling again with their new job. ‘little faith’The comedy, which will premiere on Movistar Plus on Tuesday, July 4th, features a couple in crisis whose (apparently only) bland life has the funniest moments.

“A couple with few ambitions, few passions, ‘little faith’ in life” as described by their creators (also responsible for: ‘Just before Christ’ and ‘Those in the tunnel’), for whom “any life is an adventure”. “The anguish that Indiana Jones feels surrounded by the Nazis is the same agony she might feel when she finishes her work in someone else’s home, in the bathroom, and realizes that the cistern isn’t working. What happens is that it’s unexplained. The Indiana Jones thing has more appeal,” they point out, and so they told them in this series. they praise the value of minimal stories that provide a lot of gameplay.

The couple’s woman is Berta, who teaches at a kindergarten she gave life to. hope pedreno. “People ignore her and don’t value her. Nobody likes her. She does her best to help others, to do her best,” explains the actress. He is José Ramón, a security guard played by ‘chanante’, another black belt in humor. Raul Cimas (“La hora chanante”, “Late motivation”).

One episode for each month of the year

Both give life to a couple who aren’t experiencing the best moment of their relationship as we’ve seen for years. 12 episodes of 15 minutes creators of the series one for each month of the year. But that doesn’t mean his life is full of the funniest scenes, just like the comic sequence with a painting of Franco as the protagonist.

“The comedy by Montero and Maidagán runs a very fine line and they make you laugh,” says Pedreño, who repeats with the duo after the successful ‘Camera café’ in which he played Pure Cañizares. “I think they’re characters who take life very personally, and you don’t find people like that today. When you see the show, you miss the person,” says Pedreño.

Enrique Martínez and Raúl Cimas in ‘Little faith’.

In fact, the routine doesn’t suit them, thanks to the weird secondary that surrounds them. Berta has parents (Maria Jesus Hoyos, Juan Lombardero), who ignores her and always takes her other daughter into account before her. And above (Julia de Castro) is a real disaster. José Ramón’s mother (Marta Fernandez-Muro) is also very special, someone with a history as a ‘hippie’ and continues to be a free spirit to this day.

As if they were not content with their families, they also have to deal with a neighbor who has little luck with women (chani martin), a friend who does not shut up even under water (Pilar Gomez) to Thailand and some extraordinary colleagues (Enrique Martinez). The hero usually says about them, “You finally got the point.”

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