Maricón Perdido (Spanish Series) [Queer You Are]

Maricón Perdido (Queer You Are) is an autobiographical comedy inspired by the life of Bob Pop (also known as Roberto Enríquez) a critic, writer and host recognized for his blog writing and appearances on late night TV in Spain. In all honesty, I have no idea who Bob Pop is or was before watching this show. But this show, told to us through there different timelines of Bob Pop's life shows us a coming of age story of a town boy in search of his own identity blending comedy and drama on his journey towards self-acceptance. The show is 6 episodes of 25-20 minutes each.

We meet Roberto Enríquez, a teenage dreamer in a small town who suffers constant episodes of harassment and who deals with a family situation of incomprehension in which his only support is his grandfather. We follow his journey as a teenager in school, his bullying, to his first few sexual encounters including rape in a park. Told to us through a non-linear fashion, we see his journey to present days as a successful writer and a pop icon figure, who constantly struggled with his body. We see multiple characters throughout the journey most importantly his castrating mother, loving grandfather, stifling father and ever faithful girlfriend Lola. Events are shown of his growth from an awkward teen, to a confident adult to a budding writer, who uses his real life story to write a book and share with a larger audience. We see a silver living when he finally meets the man of dreams who loves him for who is. 

The miniseries tells the story in a tone of dramatic comedy, showing the protagnost's fight against all kinds of discrimination. The autobiography is emotional and fun, and is fundamentally focused on his fight against homophobia and with gordophobia, since Bop's body did not enter into the conventional beauty canons of society, in fact, that detail is constantly underlined, coming to focus only on that, so he leaves his achievements as a person out of the conversation. Through non-linear narrative style, the series tries to show us parallels between events in different timelines. The two main actors playing the teenage and adult version are so good that they almost look alike in many scenes. I have to hand it to casting of these actors. A very interetsing approach was to never show us the father's face. Just as the parent invisibilizes the son, now the son prefers to blur him from the story. The series proposes several narratives about the fear, pain and loneliness that exist in life, especially when we are misunderstood beings. The show is brief, emotional and sensitive, despite showing raw events of a person, but, in the end, despite his many mistakes, his narrative freshness weighs more, and ends up offering something new. (6.5/10)