Relationships are not easy, because they always have their challenges. Not even the first days, where nerves, fears and hopes are mixed. Ask them the letters of ‘He’s from Barcelona’a list that offers meetings between strangers who have connected through dating applications. TV3 and its platform, 3 cats, premieres on Wednesday, October 16 (10:05 pm) and the second season about fiction (the successor to the broadcast ten years ago but now with the name of the Catalan capital in the title), which will also arrive on Amazon Prime Video on Monday 21st.
As in the previous sections, two letters make up each of them six partsand the characters vary from chapter to chapter. Actually, in fact, it remains the same,” of a romantic drama and ‘feel good’“, as explained by its creator, Pau Freixas. “We have no intention of creating new ones. The difference is subtle because we want people who enjoyed the previous titles to do now with the new ones,” he emphasizes.
But, according to Freixas, in this second season there is a “risky bet”: “Now the show Eric Navarro and has moved slightly acidic vision. For example, we have theme song it’s something where everything happens over the phone on the AVE team,” he says.
Meet at the funeral home
They also want to create new settings and settings where dates are held (they have since funeral home to bar stand-up), and show unusual situations, which make some people stop open-mouthed when they see their partner or look at their goals.
Óscar Casas and Lola Rodríguez, in ‘Citas Barcelona’ // Amazon MGM Studios
There is even”“words of encouragement” in the context, “so that everyone can be as they want,” forward David Selvasleading two chapters along with Paco Caballero, Nely Reguera, Gemma Ferraté and Eric Navarro himself, who also works as a photographer Dani González, Clara Esparrach and Iván Mercadé. “Here we don’t have explosions or things like that, but at the center of the story are the characters,” adds Selvas.
If in the previous season they also found the original actors of the new plots (Eva Santolaria, Nausicaa Bonín and Laia Costa), in this one they saved two secondary characters of last year, who have now turned into actors of the two stories. :which of A type of Clotewho has a boyfriend That monthand where Betsy Tournezwho lives with Yolanda Ramos.
Natalia Tena, in ‘Citas Barcelona’ / / Photo of Andrea
The rest of the starting lineup: Anna Castillo, Ricardo Gomez (recorded in Catalan)Natalia Tena, Leonor Watling, Adrián Lastra, Verónica Echegui, Asier Etxeandia, Óscar Casas, Fran Perea, Lola Rodríguez, Elisabet Casanovas, Bruna Cusí, Margarida Corceiro, Asia Ortega, Tomy Aguilera, Jorge Suquet, Jiman Nienez Solé, Emma Arquillué and Arnau Puig.
Argument over photography
this season, three episodes were recorded in Catalan and three in Spanish. Indeed, last year, TV3’s filming caused a lot of criticism. “It’s absurd, because naming an actor whose voice you already know is difficult and, in addition, you had the opportunity to watch it in the original version,” says Freixas, a possibility that TV3 also offers.
The producer of the series defends the decision to record in both languages: “We are bringing money from Prime Video to invest in the Catalan industry, we are bringing actors to work in Barcelona, in Catalonia, so we have a clear conscience”, he establishes to argue.
