When The other side It wants to be scary, it is; When she wants to make us laugh, she succeeds. Sometimes that happens in the same scene, with the same dialogue and within the same shot. Where is the trick? how do you achieve it? Very easy: having an absolute genius at the helm. Berto Romero is a wonderful television creator. It was in look what you have done and it is in The other side.
Making humor with parapsychological journalism is not difficult at all. Only mixing those two terms already leads to laughter. The other side He uses that little joke that comes out only to build a much more complex building. Nacho Nieto’s (Romero) life crisis has to do with the beyond, but above all with the hereafter. After being practically expelled from the system, Nacho finds a last chance togive meaning to your life. You will have to face living enemies and dead villainswith real ghosts and imaginary specters, with an old boss who appears to him (an unusual and superlative Andreu Buenafuente) and with a nemesis in the form of Nacho Vigalondo and the background of that star of parapsychological journalism [pausa para reírnos todos] that we all know.
The other side It is a prodigy of writing, directing and acting. In Berto Romero’s second fiction project for Movistar+, “the humor is serious and the drama has a comedy rhythm.” This is how Javier Olivares, creator of The ministry of timethe particular way of mixing genres that the series has.The other side es Veronica(that block of flats), it is Communityes The seed of the deviles Scoopes The sixth Sense forks Women at the edge of a nervous attack. It’s terror, it’s comedy and it’s customs.
Like in look what you have doneBerto Romero also takes charge of the cast of The other side. But in this case there are no games between reality and fiction (look what you have done is an autobiographical comedy) and Romero he exposes himself a lot as an actor. Test passed. One more.
The other side He begins by setting himself a challenge that is as unnecessary as it is challenging: make a suicide attempt fun without downplaying its importance to what it really means to want to take your own life. He also gets it. Shortly after, Buenafuente enters the scene, with all the risk that this entails. Again, Berto gets his way and the duo works perfectly. It is not the perfection that we already know from their joint interventions on TV and podcasts. It’s a different one. It’s new. It’s another side.