The great success of ‘Entrevías’ in Telecinco achieved enormous international echo thanks to the arrival of the series on Netflix. However, the platform only launched the first season at the time, while the Mediaset chain premiered the second consecutively.
Luckily, the wait to see the second on Netflix came to an end this past March 1 and the series starring Jose Coronado it’s raging again. As expected, ‘Entrevías’ maintains everything that worked in the first, but among its additions, one stands out with its own light, to the point that we could classify it as the secret weapon of the series so that this second season is better than its predecessor.
I’ve tried to avoid specific spoilers but you may not want to read any further if you haven’t seen the second season.
From ‘La que se avecina’ to ‘Entrevías’
Some of you may have already guessed that I mean Jordi Sanchezan actor that many inevitably associate with ‘La que se avecina’, the successful comedy in which he gives life to Antonio Recio from the first episode of the series. This means that seeing him in a dramatic role is going to be quite a surprise for some viewers, since it is true that we could also see him in ‘La caza. Monteperdido ‘, but also that practically all of her career in film or television in recent years has been in humorous roles.
In ‘Entrevías’ he gives life to Guillermo Salgado, a businessman with few scruples who collides head-on with Tirso on more than one occasion. In addition, his professional relationship with one of the daughters of the character played by Coronado will complicate everything more, although what is really important is that in this way ‘Entrevías’ offers a different opponent for its protagonist than what we had seen in the first season.
The first thing that becomes clear with Sánchez in ‘Entrevías’ is its versatility, since from the first moment he manages to impose with his presence and that each time he feels like a greater threat. And besides, he does it without resorting to the purely physical or the idea that he could take you out of the way at any time in a shootout, something much more complicated than it might seem.
In Salgado everything is more sibylline, showing in passing his capacity for handling -it doesn’t take us long to discover what his true intentions are for the neighborhood-, something with which Sánchez plays perfectly to add an additional factor to ‘Entrevías’ that suits the series wonderfully.
All this leads to the initial surprise soon being in the background to enjoy the great interpretation that Sánchez offers in a character who in his own way is the other side of the same coin of Antonio Recio. The difference is that in ‘La que se avecina’ it serves to laugh at him for all the misfortunes that she causes and suffers, while here that most despicable facet is channeled in another way. And the actor has had a great time, since he himself pointed out before the premiere that “I liked it a lot“, something that is noticeable in all his appearances.
Obviously, only with Sánchez is not enough, but for me it has been the differential factor for me to end up opting for the second season. And that the resolution of everything that it raises does not end up driving me crazy, but hey, we already know that the series is not going to stop there.
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