In December, La Última was released, a youth romantic drama where Aitana tried to succeed in the world of pop music in Madrid with the support of Miguel Bernardeau. Now those who are trying to sing or compose are Asia Ortega, María Pedraza and Bernardo Flores, who perform in the urban scene of Malaga waiting to be discovered in Urban. Life is ours released on Amazon. And, after making a harmless comparison between both series, a conclusion can be reached: when writing a youth and musical series, the plot cannot contain even a hint of originality.
Urban's story begins with Yanet and Lola. The first landed in Madrid seven years ago with the promise of being an artist and she is tired of working as a waitress in an unforgiving city. The second has a very hard shell and, for unknown reasons, she wants distance from her family. Thus, despite not knowing each other for more than one night, they decide to move together to Malaga, Yanet's hometown, to start from scratch. But, of course, they soon find the world of music from which they were fleeing and in which Patrick reigns in the trendy establishment when he holds the microphone.
Urban. Life is ours moves through familiar terrain. There have to be rebellious girls willing to fight at any time and forcefully, lest it be clear to us that they are strong women. There is the one from humble origins and the one who is accused of being posh every three scenes. You have the local promise of music writing lyrics while working as a fruit seller. There are flat tires at the least opportune moment, reunions with exes on the first night of arriving, places that lend them money to sleep in and even a traveling urban music contest that (what a coincidence!) will soon be held in Malaga. .
Urban is not a series that makes fools of itself. The direction knows how to give credibility to the scenes in the nightclub and the dialogues exhibit enough youthful nihilism and naturally. Asia Ortega consolidates herself as an actress with plenty of attitude after Les de l'hoquei or especially Hasta el cielo: La serie: her Yanet works from the beginning because of her talent and also because the character's loser status gives her something to than to cling to the dramatic. María Pedraza cannot say the same, with a character that is based on her ability to show her index finger in the first episodes.
But, when you try to write a series very now, the first thing you should find is freshness in the way the story is told or original elements in the plots. Not even a cockfight can give Urban personality. Life is ours, which is a commonplace that, more than traditional, is conventional.
Maybe it shouldn't be surprising. This production can be broadcast on Amazon Prime Video but it is from Mediaset and the television company lost its way a long time ago at the fiction level. Their series right now stand out for being entertainment without ambition and/or series with which they don't know what to do.
