The Barcelona of Other It’s not the city I live in. Is better. The Barcelona series Pau Freixasadaptation of the British Dates by Bryan Elsley, is as photogenic and sexy as her characters. In the third season of her, she available complete already in Prime Video and broadcast weekly on TV3, everyone is extremely attractive and not only because its cast is an all-star buffet, but also because the writing of its characters wants us to love them and it succeeds.
shot in catalan and spanish (which, to no one’s surprise, has created a controversy in Catalonia due to its artificial re-dubbing into Catalan on TV3), Barcelona Dating it is organized in the form of self-concluding chapters (or not) on, indeed, appointments. Since we are in 2023, these pre (or post) romantic encounters are mediated by Tinderthe app ubiquitous in this to find a plan. If the series has any collaboration agreement with that app It’s the least of it, because today people meet like that, date like that and fuck like that. Pose Barcelona Dating otherwise it would have been absurd because implausible. But let’s go back to the list of stars: Clara Lago, Carlos Cuevas, David Verdaguer, Carmen Machi, Laia Costa, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Manuela Vellés, Pablo Rivero…
As always happens (and, above all, in this type of series), some shine more than others. Carmen Machi does it a lot, Isabelle Huppert more than ever, Pep Ambròs, Carolina Yuste or Manuela Vellés, which makes the trope of the abandoned crazy woman acceptable. Also David Verdaguer and Laia Costa, in characters that in any other fiction could seem like parodies. It’s a shame, yes, that the season begins with some squeaky Clara Lago and Carlos Cuevas, with her in a tone of comedy that does not quite take off and he barely distinguishable from the characters in which he has specialized lately. His segment has a brilliant, classic rom-com premise, but the execution is spotty. Fortunately, after that frustrating start, Barcelona Dating it recovers.
The Freixas series leaves its main course for last. We already knew that Eva Santolaria, a veteran of the series, would meet Antonio Hortelano again in it, but that does not make the experience of seeing them become a couple who meet again after three decades less exciting. the mythical Valley and Quimi Companions star in the closing episode and do so with the complicity of viewers who, whether or not they are fans of Companions (I am not), they will enter their game of lost opportunities and distant youth.
It sounds cheesy. It is not. Just as attractive as the rest of the cast Barcelona DatingEva and Antonio initial the essence of the series, a fiction that more than ingenious plots (which there are also) what it has is an ability to describe with elegance and subtlety sensations and feelings that range from the sick sexual high to genuine infatuation. All this in a Barcelona that could not be more desirable. Saying “what a beautiful series” is not the way to end a text like this. Except today.