"And this is news?" is the question we often see in the comments on news stories about tabloids and pop culture. And, obviously, these aren't news stories that make the front pages of newspapers, but they are issues we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at the bar. And this is what we do in this podcast: we go to a local to review some news from the social chronicle that serves not only to keep up with the most important gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship, and breakups.

It is difficult to remember a Spanish series with such a powerful and comical beginning. The King of Spain, just before the start of the Copa del Rey final, waits in front of the mirror in the toilets of the Metropolitan Stadium. Locked in one of the toilets is his daughter, Princess Pilar, who refuses to appear in the box. She does not want to be whistled by the fans of the rival teams. The King reassures her by promising that the television will lower the sound in the stadium and turn up the volume of the Spanish anthem and reminds her that everything could be worse. And the princess, amazed, asks him: "I think two fucking Catalan teams?"The rivals turn out to be Barça and Girona. Later, a close-up on television will allow us to read the lips of the princess as she endures the downpour. And all this before the opening credits.

At the beginning of the first episode of The short life, set in Spain in 1724, we see humble farmers giving one of their sows to envoys of Philip V. The son asks the father why he gave them the animal. The man replies that "thanks to the king, we have all this." The catacratic wreck of the house that collapses behind him ironically reinforces this statement. The short life is a Movistar+ production that aims to approach a period of history with a supposedly irreverent perspective. We enter the Spanish court of the 18th century, at an unusual time: when, ten years after the end of the War of Succession, Philip V (Javier Gutiérrez) abdicates in favor of his son Luis (Carlos Scholz), who is only sixteen years old. However, the young Bourbon ends up dying unexpectedly seven months after ascending the throne. Hence the title of a series that refers to both Monty Python and the Marie Antoinette