After I had watched the movie "Bros" and being quite underwhelmed by it, I watched this spanish tv-series and was distincly overwhelmed. These two titles are aiming for the same result, more or less, but "Bros" misses because of the superficiality and the stereotypical characters, while "Smiley" succeeds because it presents human beings instead of "plastics" and manages to tug at the heartstrings in a really good way. When watching, you want these people to feel good and be happy, even though they sometimes act stupid and say inappropriate things...just like any normal human being does. We like them, warts and all!
"Smiley" tries to do rom-com for the LGBTQ-community, but not exclusively because it's a "hetero-friendly" tv-series as well, dealing with difficulties within hetero-relationships as well.
Also, I really liked the.way they used split-screen technique. It's something that used in the wrong way could just irritate, but here it intrigues. And all in all, it's a very well produced and presented series.
The cast is very good also, from the main characters (especially Carlos Cuevas and Miki Esparbé) down to the minor ones, for instance the nanny who has a tiny, but anyway she contributes greatly to happy the ending for one of the couples.
"Smiley" tries to do rom-com for the LGBTQ-community, but not exclusively because it's a "hetero-friendly" tv-series as well, dealing with difficulties within hetero-relationships as well.
Also, I really liked the.way they used split-screen technique. It's something that used in the wrong way could just irritate, but here it intrigues. And all in all, it's a very well produced and presented series.
The cast is very good also, from the main characters (especially Carlos Cuevas and Miki Esparbé) down to the minor ones, for instance the nanny who has a tiny, but anyway she contributes greatly to happy the ending for one of the couples.