This Is Not Sweden

This is an excellent series, without a doubt the best Catalan show I've watched in recent years.

The plot is about a young couple with two kids who move to a neighbourhood in the hills behind Barcelona, to be closer to nature. They are a middle-class, a bit hipster couple with good jobs, who have exchanged roles after four years: he is a full time homemaker while she works full time as a seller of expensive, "fairtrade" rugs made in Morrocco. The series revolves around their experience trying to balance work with raising their children and the contradictions they live in.

It seemed to me a realistic portrait of how parenthood may be in our present time, with all the insecurities of our society (individualist well-being, globalisation, fakeness, the pervasive presence of screens and social networks, etc.) naturally reflected throughout the eight episodes.

The script never stops being good, until the end; it's often funny, even though it's generally a drama with some depth.

Happy to see Catalan culture is still alive and able to create fiction of quality and relevance.