Two of the most interesting creators of recent years get together with two stars of national interpretation while they cling to the crisis of the 50’s. Perhaps the intention of the authors of ‘We are sorry for the inconvenience’ was to prepare for what is coming. Maybe it’s a statement of intent. What is clear is that the new Movistar+ series, with two stratospheric Antonio Resines and Miguel Rellán, is a vital triumph, optimistic and very funny.
More than friends
A friendship like that of Raphaels of the series could only be transferred to the screen with two friends as the characters in it. Resines and Rellán have been working together on different projects for more than 30 years, and that chemistry coming off the screen as if it were 3D emotion that catches you and gives you warmth, it would not be possible with other actors.
The protagonists of ‘We apologize for the inconveniences‘ let themselves be loved and hated naturally and easily in a surprisingly friendly new series coming from two creators like Álvaro Fernández-Armero and Juan Cavestany. ‘We are sorry for the inconvenience’ is pessimistic and vital, really pocha but always energetic. Yes, what had to be. It is a hug to the elderly, the one that for many of us is closer than the day of the premiere of ‘Matrix’. And scares. It can be quite scary.
That is the main theme of a series that relies on music to embrace our grandparents. To all of them. The most curmudgeonly and the most roll upextremes perfectly embodied in the interpretations of these two greats of our cinema, two of those guys who improve everything they touch. Resines, who has been more out than in because of the Covid, continues a notable streak after his role in ‘Orígenes secretos’, while Rellán is currently on the billboard with ‘Emperor Code’ and had already passed ‘Shame’ with Armero and Cavestany.
‘We are sorry for the inconvenience’ he speaks in a tone of more or less dramatic comedy about what it means to “grow old” today. Rafael Müller (Antonio Resines) is a prestigious orchestra director and the best friend of Rafael Jiménez (Miguel Rellán), an old national rock legend, leader of the group Care with the dog, who refuses to hang up his guitar, to leave his floor or lose the smile.
One, self-centered and temperamental, another great-grandfather (like Mick Jagger) Peter Pan who refuses to throw in the towel. Both are impeccably shielded by Fiorella Faltoyano, Melina Matthews and María Casal, among others, to offer a portrait of the eternal friendship between two friends so close they can hardly stand each other. About the fear of pain, loss and the enormous vertigo caused by seeing the end of the game there in the background.
But let no one be intimidated by the possible “pessimism” that the latter may imply. The six 25-minute episodes that make up this season of ‘Sorry for the inconvenience’ are to see with a smile on your lipsto savor the replicas and situations of two real and close characters, no matter how much the lives of both may be far from what we know.
Armero and Cavestany, who know about toxic relationships for a while (‘Everything is a lie’, ‘Bad quality people’, the same ‘Shame’), are now showing her softer sidemore respectful, to lovingly shake a couple of scoundrels who are already counting down the hours to hang up their robes and dedicate themselves to looking at the horizon with all integrity and dignity intact. Like the same series.