They are two ways of understanding entertainment on the sofa in the living room.
On the one hand, the vindication of fantasy, the story of an extraordinary situation: a widower with an unbearable teenage daughter meets a sentimental widow counselor a la
Miss Lonelyhearths
, who hides a terrible personality.
We are talking about the Australian
Wolf Like Me
(Amazon Prime Video).
On the other, a Swedish comedy that wants to show a realistic mosaic of mature women and their relationship with sex.
Four “middle class” ladies, as Luis Medina, the aristocrat of
“pa la saca”
would say , narrate what, decontextualized, Cioran defined as love: “The union of two babas”.
We refer to
Lust
(HBO Max).
Fiction and reality, a non-existent duality in this case, since the two series are the fruit of the imagination of their scriptwriters, even though in the Australian the fantastic is part of the plot while in the Swedish it is intended to reflect the importance of relationships in couples with a tone closer to the documentary.
Two very entertaining series in which it can be seen that the differences between lycanthropy and slimes are less than one might think: after all, there is always a dominator and a dominated one, either because of the voracity of the fangs or by the vagina considered a weapon loaded with present.
Review, if anything, that in the highly civilized Sweden remorse for infidelity, jealousy and the desire for redemption are as morally present and rooted as in the most underdeveloped country.
And that in Australia, the landscapes of the Stuart Highway, in what the locals call the
outback
, give credibility to any extraordinary situation.
And that's where we are.
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