A few hours after Succession was crowned at the Emmys with its final season after also doing so at the Golden Globes and at the Critics Choice, fans of business and family dramas will be able to enjoy Greyhounds, the new series starting tomorrow, Thursday. original from Movistar Plus. The fiction focuses on the conflicts and intrigues of the Somarriba family, owner of Grupo Galgo, a food giant that begins to crumble when it reaches its third generation. Adriana Ozores and the Argentine Óscar Martínez give life to the main couple while Patricia López Arnaiz, Marcel Borrás, María Pedraza and Jorge Usón play their children.
The directors of Galgos, Félix Viscarret and Nely Reguera, do not completely avoid the comparison with Succession but they do insist on marking differences. “The nature from which Galgos arises is from another point of reference: that of a very Iberian type of family business, one of those families that we see in the ¡Hola! and that they promoted their businesses in the late sixties and early seventies but that is currently a business model that does not work,” Viscarret advances. "In all this time, the form of production, consumption, society, laws and even those families have changed internally, which have suffered a mutation whereby this third generation no longer has anything to do with that of the grandfather," Add.
The decision of the matriarch of the clan (played by Ozores) to stop being on a discreet level and take an unexpected step forward to try to save the family business will be the starting point of a battle full of egos, vanities, ambitions, corruptions and, of course, the coming to light of more than one secret.
Viscarret points out as a novel and ironic element of Galgos “that we are portraying a type of family that has achieved a level of wealth and status thanks to selling a product (industrial pastries) that they, today, would never consume.” Furthermore, he points out as another differentiating point regarding Succession, “the way of relating and how the ties are managed between the members of a “Mediterranean, Iberian or Latin family”, which is very different from an Anglo-Saxon family. “What do you do when the boss who tells you off is also your mother?” If you tell your parents that you are not going to go to Christmas dinner, how are they going to take it if they are also your bosses? ”She says.
For her part, Nelly Reguera emphasizes that Galgos is a series of characters that are “very complex and not at all obvious.” Regarding the title of the fiction, he explains that it is because the greyhound is a dog that remembers the members of the protagonist family: “It is an elegant animal but also a racing dog that has to go after prey and is capable of not only to run more than anyone else, but to end up exhausted.”
Both directors were attracted to the scripts because of “the subtle irony latent in them” and which, they say, they defended until the end. “The scripts had achieved that complex balance between accompanying characters, empathizing with them and understanding where their passions and miseries come from, but at the same time marking a certain distance to be able to smile with the pathos of some moments and the ridiculousness of others” .
