Before answering the question in the title, it would be necessary to specify what “before” is.
For many of us, before it was
the unitary
(previously this was what the series that aired on open television were called)
Los Machos
, which was among the most watched programs between 1994 and 1995.
Created by Jorge Maestro, Sergio Vainman and Gastón Pessacq, it showed four friends who got together to have dinner and
talk about their problems with women
in Arturo's (Rodolfo Ranni) kitchen.
There was a divorced man (Ranni), a married man (Gustavo Garzón), a recalcitrant misogynist (Darío Grandinetti) and one who had recently been abandoned by his wife (Daniel Fanego).
In
78!
chapters
, the quartet touched on the hot topics of that time: AIDS, homosexuality, infidelity, premature ejaculation.
Fears and insecurities
of men, between sarcasm and humor.
But before before, from 1965 to 1971, the
Four Men for Eva
(by the legendary Nené Cascallar), Eduardo Rudy, Rodolfo Bebán, Jorge Barreiro and José María Langlais, were a small phenomenon.
A widower, a separated man (
there was no divorce
), a married man and a confirmed bachelor also met for dinner and talked about women once a week.
Surely his talks would provoke a certain tenderness today.
The Alpha Males are four friends who get together to play paddle tennis.
Photo: Manuel Fiestas/Netflix
The same success, in this global case, is enjoyed today by
Alfa Machos
, the Spanish series that is seen on Netflix and updates male problems.
The most important, how to move
from toxic masculinity to healthy masculinity.
Once again there are four friends who get together (to have a drink or play paddle tennis) to talk about their wives.
Now they are a married man with children (Luis-Fele Martínez), a recently separated one (Santi-Gorka Otxoa), an old-fashioned one (Raúl-Raúl Tejón) and one who lives with his girlfriend (Pedro-Fernando Gil).
They are all taken aback by the female advance and that is why they sign up for a
deconstruction course for machirulos
.
Always in a somewhat sarcastic comedy tone, Pedro cannot believe that they have fired him from his job to replace him with a woman, Raúl
does not accept the open partner
that his girlfriend proposes to him, Luis struggles with the sexual demands of the mother of his children and Santi does not know how to stand up to the new rules of seduction.
Thus, swingers clubs, polyamory,
sex toys
, friendship between straight men and homo men, dating applications and the need for explicit consent before going to bed appear.
We see Pedro in the situation of being harassed by his new boss (does he report her or does he "get her regular sex", as Raúl advises him?), Santi recording
a video with his girl's yes
before having sex ( to avoid any type of subsequent complaint);
Luis looking for alternatives (all failed) to satisfy his wife;
and Raúl valuing the sensitivity of his gay friends to the point of arousing the jealousy of the group he belongs to.
The Alpha Males attend a course to deconstruct themselves.
Photo: Manuel Fiestas/Netflix
Now, as before, these men
desperately want to understand women
and most of the time they achieve it, abandoning their old convictions, most of the time without recognizing it.