When I found out about the existence of the program on Netflix, I immediately imagined the meme of Pilar Rubio with a complaint in her hand in front of a police station. Let me explain. On October 3, Netflix published the first installment of a new format: an interview show, in which Brad Falchuk—who many will have more in mind for being the one who acts as producer and screenwriter alongside Ryan Murphy in a large number of their series—has a chat with someone famous under the commitment that it will not be broadcast until after the death of the interviewee. In that first program, interviewed: .
The format is an adaptation of another Danish, The Last Wordwhich launched on Denmark’s TV2 channel in 2020 and is listed as created by Michael Bertelsen. But those who are of a certain age and have a certain interest in television will remember that Canal+ already did it in Spain 22 years before. in charge of conducting the interviews, and by Isabel Vegarajauregui, it has been one of the most unique formats that Spanish television has given. Aranguren said that they recorded 64 interviews, registered before a notary, which have been broadcast over the last 28 years. The first to die was Antonio Saura. The last one was Julio Anguita (2020). Between one and the other, like Marcelino Camacho, Corín Tellado, Sara Montiel, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jorge Semprún and Chavela Vargas, there is nothing. A national treasure in the form of an archive that, incomprehensibly, Movistar Plus+ does not have at the service of its subscribers – only the interview of – is uploaded to its platform. An even bigger enigma if we do the math, given that there are still conversations to be broadcast.
I checked it a few days ago, after the second installment of , who died 10 months after making his ALS diagnosis public, was published on Netflix. An emotional and at times overwhelming interview – Dane’s paralysis was already more than advanced – conducted with skill by Falchuk, who has an essential quality for an interviewer, that of knowing how to listen. I saw her and thought: all this is very good, but where has it been? Epilogue? Why doesn’t Movistar Plus+—sorry—resuscitate it?
