The end of a series has never generated a television earthquake in Spain like that of the series Los Serrano. Fiction, which finally lowered the blind on July 17, 2008, said goodbye to the small screen, leaving an entire country with a span of noses.
First of all, let’s remember what happened. The main character of LucÃa, played by Belén Rueda, had passed away in season six, however, the series continued for two more seasons. When Telecinco decided to cancel it, an end had to be sought quickly and without planning.
At the moment of the sudden end, the characters of Teté and Guille were together, while Currito was going to enter a reformatory after being the perpetrator of an outrage. For his part, Diego Serrano, played by Antonio Resines, seemed to have had enough of the goals that life has been giving him for more than eight seasons. So he decided to say that everything had been a dream of the protagonist and that nothing he experienced was reality.
How could it be otherwise, this way of ending the series felt very bad among the viewers, who went into a rage against Telecinco’s fiction because they felt, in some way, cheated.
In fact, Antonio Resines himself has charged against the end of the series on several occasions. “It seemed crazy to all of us but, above all, it was a shame because the children had grown up,” he said a few months ago in an interview in Uppers.
Los Serrano closed like this, 147 chapters later, one of the most followed stories in the history of Spanish television. Because, beyond this unfortunate ending, this family comedy won the hearts of millions of viewers.
Two decades after that end, it seems that there is an answer that can justify that controversial decision of the writers. And it is that, after many years and many plot twists, it had to be closed somehow, something that is not always easy.
“We agreed with Mediaset, with Telecinco, that they were going to be the last episodes of the series. We began to think about how to end the series,” explained Daniel Écija, showrunner of the famous series, in the special that the chain has dedicated to The Serranos.
What Écija did is draw on personal experiences: “We wonder what would happen if it had all been a dream, which was what happened to me when my father died, that you say ‘surely it’s a bad dream.” So, of all the options they had on the table, they decided to bet on this ending.
“That is the stupidity that explains why a decision was made that should have been considered. Because there was a problem, and that is that the children had grown a lot,” Écija pointed out in the special. This fallout “has gone down in history” and “is one of the most debatable endings to a series in years.”
In this way, Écija’s opinion is not too far from what fans of the series believe. However, the television critic Alberto Rey does not agree too much with this opinion: “It is one of the most criticized and parodied endings in history. If we keep laughing, it means they did their job very well.”
