This is a TV broadcast of a theatrical play by the Catalan company Krampack. Krampack is well known to all Catlan audiences thanks to their TV series "Plats bruts".

This play, however, is a rather different animal. Whereas "Plats bruts" used (mostly) white humor and surrealism to satirize young adults in Spain, "Excuses!" is a rather adult take on a similar situation. Two young couples meet several times over the years, and we see in perfect detail how they fail to achieve anything resembling happiness or fulfillment, the major causes being mismatched couples and lack of maturity (specially evident in the case of Joel Joan's character).

Is it good? Yes, of course. The members of the company are very skilled actors (a special mentions should go to Monica Glaentzel's performance as a young mother), and the text is both agile and precise in its satire.

But to be honest I didn't enjoy the play as much as I expected. Part of the blame should be put on myself, because I was expecting something similar to "Plats bruts", but I should also mention that the mixture of humor and extremely adult situations, such as spousal or child abuse, was rather difficult to stomach. It is something the authors intended, I'm sure, but it still makes for difficult watching in some key scenes.

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