The Crackpot

Joel Joan is a real-life actor, well known to Catalan audiences, who plays himself in this series. He is incongruous, inconsistent, intransigent, indecent, impossible, and insatiable. At the age of 42 he has already burned himself out, together with everyone around him. No one wants to work with him. Nonetheless, he decides to do whatever it takes to land an important part in a big film: Moragues, the Great General, one fictitious story within another. The series is a sharp-edged parody of the public’s take on the world of film and television, focusing on the actors’ public image and the world in which they are immersed. The comic element is achieved by playing off stereotypical character types, wrapped in clever, fastpaced and witty dialogue.