December 2001: the most boring way to present Argentine history

December 2021significant date in the political and economic history of our country, is also the title of a series, kind of docu fictionbased on the book of Michael Bonasso The Palace and the Street.

Although they want to sell it to you as a political thriller, it is far from being that, both the script of mario segade like the timid direction of Benjamin Avila (Gilda’s): they limit themselves to presenting facts that cover the period of time of the title, which occurred in the Casa Rosada, in the Quinta Presidencial de Olivos and in some other points related to power, both of the Alliance and of Peronism.

From De la Rúa to Duhalde, it is present the entire political arc of that time with impressive characterizations, perhaps the highlight of this proposal for star + what’s wrong with it six episodes.

Chiche Duhalde: “The actress who plays me in December 2001 is uglier than me, I’m prettier”

To also present stories of ordinary people use a a member of the government team, which fulfills the functions of a pivot in the negotiations and also serves to incorporate the presence of the long-suffering citizens who went hungry, did not know what to do with their savings and turned out to be the hostages of history. he is the great Diego Cremonesiable to bring warmth just by looking.

To reach the culmination already known, with very little extra information that sheds some light, you have to be encouraged to follow a slow plot which are supplemented by real images of the time, which are immediately determined in fiction, and nothing more.

In this context, the Best moments They occur when the president already resigned, in the period in which there were four successors in a short time, show the trips that were made among themselves to stay in power.

There will also be the explosions of Chrystian Colombo in the skin of the always excellent luis luke, and the debacle of a doctor from the Argerich hospital, played by Cecilia Rossetto, when it prevents you from touching the money in your bank account.

If the intention of the series was to show that Argentines do not learn more, it was not necessary. Here it seems that they would have gotten involved with the protagonist of the plot and hMake De la Rúa’s phrase “They say they are boring” your own… This series specifically is.

They don’t even save her Jean Pierre Noher impressive as the president of that time, ludovico di santo very well as Antonio De la Rúa (surprisingly Aíto does not appear), Luis Machín fantastic as Domingo Cavallo and a great selection that includes Cesar Troncoso (Eduardo Duhalde), fernan miras (Carlos “Chacho” Alvarez), jorge suarez (very lovable as Adolfo Rodríguez Saa), Manuel Callau (unrecognizable in his excellent characterization of Raúl Alfonsín), manuel vincent (an impeccable Ramón Puerta), Alejandra Flechner (Divine Hilda “Chiche” Duhalde) and vando villamihim (as Carlos Ruckauf). As I already said, his interpretations are the best of a floating proposal.

And far from ending this fashion for biopics that national production in particular is having, now the same team advertised (at the end of this series as if it were a Marvel movie) that they are going to recreate Galtieri in the Falklands War. Pass, don’t count on me to see it.