girl meets boy This is perhaps the premise that scares most those who are faced with telling an audiovisual story, even though it clearly does not belong to this group. carlos montero. The spirit behind the debauchery of physics or chemistry and the domain likes Elite sign now Netflix’s big bet for this Valentine’s Day… And the result is as unexpected as it is addictive.
First, let’s put ourselves in a situation: Madrid, 2021. A girl is working on the scenario of what is her story with the love of her life? with whom he left and returned several times. She, in voiceover, already warns that this will be one of those stories that, although knowing its end, you will want to see it in the same way. Is not wrong.
Her name is Irene and she has just arrived in Madrid from Castellón to study Audiovisual Communication at Complutense; His name is Julio and he survives his law degree at the same university by living with a father who loves excess. Irene and Julio’s romance is the driving force behind a series that is about youth, first times, dreams and, of course, love.
Anyone would say that the ingredients that make possible All the times we fell in love they feed back into the cliche itself, however, giving them equal value in every position of the equation makes them an attractive product in every way. Perhaps a plot with as many open stories as years pass between scene and scene is to blame – there are time jumps from 2004 to today -, but the truth is that it works.
beyond romance
The title of the series will perhaps invite the most romantic to see it, and they will not be disappointed at all; even if all those who flee the love stories so much exploited in the youth genre will not do it either. Yes, the common thread of TLVQNE this is how two people exploit their toxic relationship until they consume their desire and their time; but that’s not the only thing that matters.
Dreams carry a lot of weight in the plot, especially given the characters’ relationship to the world of cinema. And it is that Irene is not only in love with Julio, she is also in love with her profession; and in fact, what really drives his character is to impose himself in an industry as attractive as it is complicated. As it goes with the waiter, sometimes it’s even secondary.
A frame from the series. / netflix
The fact that the protagonists are Audiovisual Communication students sometimes makes them fall into niche humor—anyone who has an intense CAV student nearby will understand—but that can be extrapolated to the youthful spirit they want. set up plan by plan. Because all fall in love, suffer and learn from disappointment to disappointment; but none of them put the love of work first. Here’s one of your big reality checks: Do you want to work or have a partner? That.
Beyond what your characters are looking for, It should also be noted how well the plot is set up. Even if it was inevitable not to lie Operation Triumph In a series set in the 2000s, the underworld that forms with references to moviegoers themselves – not just cinema as such – ends up being very rewarding for the universe that forms the series.
real youth
Comparisons are odious, but in a 2023 where Elite It continues to be the most commented on Netflix Spain —for better or for worse, although it seems to be something that fiction itself seeks throughout its seasons—, It’s impossible to miss that this series is signed by the thinking mind behind the Las Encinas boys.
The authorship of this project may attract many of those viewers who make blind sex and elite dream lives their guilty pleasurebut here you will not find it. TLVQNE I could romanticize whatever those in the brown uniform romanticize, but they don’t seem to have any intention of getting closer.
Review between class and class. / netflix
The protagonists are also 18-year-olds, yes, but a far cry from the idyllic world in which mum and dad pay for everything and do their homework from an infinity pool. There it remains only to speculate: His intention may be to change idealization for personification, something they achieve strangely well given how far they are able to deviate from reality to show the lives of millionaires who do not reach the age of majority.
Eventually, TLVQNE is a bet that embraces the romantic comedy to be totally different from it, with such an optimal result that it manages to dazzle Fans there hateful of the kind. To get some buts, maybe a miniseries structure would have worked better, if only to satisfy all those impatient people who don’t want to wait a year to find out how the story unfolds.
All the times we fell in love premieres February 14 on Netflix.