Is anybody here a big fan of "Cuentame" ?

[many a good man]

A couple of months ago we added Television Espanola to our cable lineup so we could get a couple of broadcast channels from Spain.
Cuentame Como Paso? is a drama/soap opera/comedy series that has been running in Spain for ten years now. It is our favorite show on TV (especially for my better half, who grew up in Spain for almost the entire period of the show).

It shows the life of a Spanish family in Madrid starting in 1968 and leading up to and including the period that witnessed the end of fascism and the transition to democratic socialist state Spain is now. To me, it is like the story of the origins of the PSOE, the Socialist Party of Spain. Everything in it displays the daily struggles of an average family that finds fascism so confining and unrealistic and inhuman.

Great scripts, great dialog, great acting. Is anyone as big a fan of Cuentame as we are? Has anyone heard of it?

[many a good man]

1. PAY-say-oh-ay

That PSOE, which translates to Spanish Socialist Workers Party. They have been pretty much the dominant party in Spain since the beginning of the democracy in Spain after Franco's death in 1976. The king of Spain, Juan Carlos, shocked all the fascists after Franco's death by calling for national plebiscite on democracy. Democracy won, of course, and Spain has been ruled much more often by the Socialists than by the conservative (fascist) Partido Popular, ever since. Wouldn't that be wonderful to live in such a place? Universal free health care, free university education, generous unemployment benefits. It's a place that values people over profits. They got they way because they saw close up the problems of fascism. I love Spain and the people who live there! And what a vibrant Arts scene, too!

[many a good man]

2. Now, who in the world rec'd this thread w/o comment?

I'd really like to hear a response. Has anybody ever watched this show? Isn't it great?

[Enrique]

3. it's not like a telenovela is it?

or is it more like a BBC style series?

My mom used to watch the telenovelas, it cracked us kids up. They made American soap operas look like Shakespeare. :-)