10 episodes. 10 years. 10 moments. Unavoidable to think about 'Boyhood (Moments of a Lifetime)' and the trilogy “Before…” by Richard Linklater, at least as a concept. From film to television, anchoring the series to an exact point each year: New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. A symbolic moment, also as a concept. It is both an end and a beginning. The same as every episode of 'The new years': Ten mini films, independent and autonomous but complementary, which one after another draw a complicit and generational portrait of a couple in their thirties. From 2015 to 2024. The concept is as clear as the intentions are. The 'Secrets of a marriage' by Ingmar Bergman converted into the “secrets of a couple” over 10 years, being as important what is told as, above all, what is not, between one episode and another (and year). Not about, obviously, relationships, but also about relationships with family, friends or work; with life itself. Ten (intense and resounding) pieces of the life of someone who would say (and sell) the Lenny Nero of 'Strange days'. From 2015 to 2024. Although served in two installments, from 2015 to 2019, and from 2020 to 2024. The first part, its first five episodes and years, focus on how the protagonists meet, fall in love and start a relationship; the second, the other five episodes and years, in how they face the passage of time, the vicissitudes of the passing of years, projects, losses, maturity… that is, the passage of time and life . And how we evolve, whether we want it or not, as people. Step by step, moment by moment, year by year. 10 episodes. 10 years. 10 moments. Many good things can be said about 'The new years'; To begin with, like life itself, it is worth discovering for yourself. Each and every one of its episodes, ten mini films based on both dialogue and action, on the obvious and the hidden that show the life journey of a couple, the one formed by Iria del Río and Francesco Carril, in a way everyday, close and credible. A resounding dissection of love (and modern life) over the years that establishes itself as a totem of the subject. On their own merits. Those of a very solid production with a concept as clear as its ideas are (and how to get there): Shape a remarkable series in parts, outstanding in a whole that, like the trilogy “Before…” It becomes great in the contrast and complicity between its (ten) parts; in how they trace a vital path in an organic and natural way, with the same captivating and enchanting simplicity of 'When Harry Met Sally'; but, unlike this one, as if it were life itself and not a fiction.
