Laura and Alberto Caballero They’ve shown that they know how to bring out the funny side of any topic, from toxic masculinity (‘Alpha males’), empty Spain (‘El pueblo’) to fights in neighborhood communities (‘Nobody lives here,’) ‘The person who comes’). Now they are doing the same with another sensitive issue in their new country: death. sherry ‘Dead, SL’It will arrive on Thursday, April 4 at the following time: Movistar Plus+and act (together) as creators Daniel Deorador, Julian Sastre, Nando Abad And Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor) and his sister as director.
Interspersed with his characteristic humor, here with a twist comedy blackthe fiction is obvious a funeral home It takes a new direction when its director dies. Because as the hero says, for a company like yours, “everyone is a potential customer,” even your own boss.
About Damaso (Carlos Areces)He has been the right-hand man of the deceased until now, and with this death, he thinks that it is time to take the reins of the company. But Nieves (Ascen LopezA seventy-year-old widow decides to take the lead with the help of her useless and enthusiastic son-in-law (Diego Martin), the ace in the hole found by the daughters of the new owner, who wanted to close the funeral home and build a gym.
‘The Office’ rather than ‘Six Feet Under’
Although the first reference that comes to mind when funeral home TV series are mentioned is ‘Six meters under’Sees more similarities with Areces ‘Office’. “Because we focus on the work environment rather than the family, and although we don’t break the fourth wall because of the camera movements,” he says.
Areces makes it very clear that “there is no topic that cannot be addressed through humor.” That’s why he loves collaborating with the Caballero brothers, with whom he previously worked on ‘La que se cerca’, ‘El pueblo’ and ‘Machos alfa’: “They’re not afraid enter the gardens and I love their characters There is no distinction between good and badbut there are different layers of reading that most of us can identify with.”
For example, although he has motivations, he does not shine for his virtues. “Dámaso is willing to put aside his moral conflicts in order to succeed in the company. He is willing to lie, cheat, and mistreat to achieve his goal, but he has been in the business for 30 years and wants some kind of reward,” he notes.
Inside eight half-hour episodes From ‘Muertos SL’ we will see him plotting and manipulating his colleagues (Salva Reina, Adriana Torrebejano, Gerard B. Fillmore, Aitziber Garmendia, Roque Ruiz, Manolo Cal) The company faces competition from new management (Amaia Salamanca) and a #Metoo lawsuit that will threaten the legacy of the funeral home’s founder. Because death is also a big deal.