Referring to the man in the gray suit has traditionally been associated with mediocre, somewhat dull people, dedicated to boring office work. The character he plays Carmen Machi (The messiah) in the series Sky blue He could fit into this team of gray suits, not because of his sex but because of his profession. Possibly one of the most hated and feared: Treasury inspector. Al Capone fell due to a tax issue, we must remember. Gray people doing bureaucratic and boring tasks, but from which a certain bloodthirsty tone emerges when they find bait, that is, some potential fraudster to pursue and launch the entire State machinery to settle accounts with the treasury. Diego San Josescreenwriter and television creator, in whose filmography we find titles such as Vote Juan, Eight Basque surnames and Pagafantas is responsible for this series that looks like a thriller, but hides a comedy like the top of a pine tree. Machi seemed to have left those behind. comic roles with which he rose to stardom and increasingly made more serious ones, but here he achieves the perfect fusion of both.
Machi embodies the gray civil servant in the twilight of her career, who is facing his last big case and with the clock counting down towards his retirement: proving tax fraud to the Spanish Treasury of a great latin american pop starwho lives like a king in Spain, but does not pay a single euro in taxes. All viewers know the name of the diva of the song, it is she who gives its name to the series: Celeste (Andrea Bayardo). But few remember that of the inspector who pursues her, Sara Santano. And Carmen Machi and her superb performance are one of the best incentives to enjoy this six-episode series. After the final season of Rapa, Want, The new yearsthe second season of Fine Arts and this one we are talking about, Movistar is closing a great year, putting together one great premiere of its own production after another and with nothing to envy of the titles from competing platforms. Although Movistar has had a level for many years now.
In Kings of the Night, another Movistar series sadly canceled after a single season, all the protagonists were fictional characters, but comparisons of these with their real equivalents were inevitable. Something similar happens with Celeste. It has nothing to do with Shakira but we all think about her, in the same way that in the other series we remembered Jose Maria Garcia already José Ramón de la Morena when seeing Javier Gutierrez and Miki Esparbe like those sports radio announcers facing each other on their respective stations. The Colombian star was reported by the Spanish Tax Agency for not paying taxes in our country, even though it was her habitual residence during those years of romance with Pique. In reality, the treasury claimed the singer 14.5 million; In its fictional counterpart, the twenty million. The series’ slogan does not hide its source of inspiration: “Some do not bill“, remembering the lyrics of that song that the Colombian diva “dedicated” to her ex-partner after the breakup. In her television counterpart, Celeste is not Colombian, but Mexican and she does not wear blonde hair, but rather dark hair, but it is impossible not to think of Shakira .
Sara Santano’s character starts the series preparing for her imminent retirement. As a tax inspector, she has the respect and admiration of her colleagues; she became number two in her class. His great work is a treatise on the reform of Tax Law during the Transitiona work that must be exciting for all those gentlemen in gray suits. But he has had a thorn in his side for a few years. His biggest professional failure was that of a footballer who managed to be acquitted of the accusations of the Tax Agency. His lawyer was precisely the one who ended up as number one in the promotion de Sara, one of those expensive lawyers who left the Public Administration to go to the dark side with the lucrative business of defending bad guys and who is now precisely Celeste’s defender as well. After all, he has a unique perspective to detect the flaws and weak points of a system of which he has been a part. We said that Sara receives one last case, that of Celeste. An inspection that, if it goes well, could put the finishing touch to his career.
The series plays with contrast between austere and gray world of tax inspectors and the glamorous atmosphere that surrounds the diva of the song. As the episodes progress, we see that Sara is not exactly moved by a defense of the public. Deep down there is some resentment, personal resentment and envy because in several scenes we discover her comparing herself to the one has ended up becoming his nemesis. In the last episode we have a final confrontation scene between the official and the singer. With this we enter spoiler territory. Throughout the series, Sara boasted about how she could rebuild a person’s life through their bills. A relentless attack dog in search of the fraudster. In this final climax, he discovers that the person he had become obsessed with does not exist. In reality, Celeste is a product manufactured by a whole legion of managers, who are the ones who profit from a job in which the star puts her face. In reality Celeste is a person who got into the world to fulfill her dream of singing and has become an expensive toy of the music industry, which will replace it with another as soon as they go down the likes, the followers and I don’t bill so much anymore. A closed ending that makes it difficult for us to see new installments in the future. Although, who knows? If we have had singers and footballers, will we see some youtuber with tax domicile in Andorra under the magnifying glass of the Treasury?
