Ena triumphed. The series, created by Javier Olivares. And Ena herself, the queen, triumphed Victoria Eugenie. Because the fiction, based on the book by Pilar Eyreplaced a person’s story above the epics of history, at the center of the social map. Epics that often engulf women. Even more so if they have left the space that society offered them: “Women must show that they are worth more than just giving birth.“, said Ena, played by Kimberly Tell.
The great-grandmother of the current King Felipe VI was until now a great unknown, because she occupied that equidistant point between distance and proximity compared to our times. Which prevents us from accessing our memories and, at the same time, our schools. Ideal for those nostalgic for times gone by who would not mythologize them so much if they had lived them.
“Sometimes, in a woman, the survival instinct is stronger than the maternal instinct. But Society is not ready to accept this. Life is a lot of misfortunes, the lack of those we loved the most and, from time to time, a joy“, reflects Victoria Eugenia in this last episode, told through the reconstruction of an interview with Augusto Assia, pseudonym of Felipe Fernández Armesto. He is the chameleon correspondent of La Vanguardia in London who, moreover, should have a spin-off own.
The role of Assía serves to organize the ideas with all the personality of the fictions made in Olivares. Don’t confuse excitement with nerdiness. Don’t confuse sentiment with condescension. He does not confuse empathy and sanctification.
With his literalities and his winkswith its documentation and its irony, with its photographic direction by Juan Carlos Franco, with its air of Bronquio (sung by Kimberley) which underlines that this is a series for today, Ena turns Eyre’s book into a beautiful but intelligent television catharsis, which is not the same as snob. Even if some people believe it. Here however, The plots play with the passion of the audience’s curiosity. A curiosity that grows by daring the mischievousness of the spy films and superhero comics of our childhood. Even by arousing our concerns with the help of the half-smile which surprises, at the very moment when the spied on dares to betray the spy in his ear. Very Olivares.
Ena It could have been a romantic series of kings raised and exiled, but it succeeded in painting a portrait of the Spain that gave birth to us. empathy which allows us to understand what we do not understand. This time, through the eyes of a queen who, a century ago, was able to read the drama hidden by citizens who valued the “discretion” imposed on women as a virtue: ““One of the biggest problems in the world is that women don’t get a lot of attention. ». Victoria Eugenia was dissatisfied with the aesthetic and reproductive function for which she had married in a carriage and was trying to find meaning in the power of her crown by developing her own voice. Even if they didn’t listen to him much. So she, Ena, she managed to be modern by defending the tradition she inherited and believed in. Antagonistic sounding words are necessary to survive.
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