The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, now has his first representative in local fiction. A man who hates the State, who disrespects labor laws, who is misogynistic, who praises meritocracy based on cheating and has a true gift that allows him to subjugate and dominate everyone. He also knows how to act cunningly, but has explosive attacks in which he insults and swears. Curiously, he has an inexplicable charm. He is a repugnant but attractive personality.
Furthermore, he is deliriously childish. He believes he is conquering the world and keeps, in his bedroom, a reproduction of the neighborhood where he works, Belgrano (an upper-middle class neighborhood), in which he plants flags on the buildings he wants to control. This is the territory that needs to be dominated in a kind of game of the ancient board game War.
This is Eliseo Basurto (played by Guillermo Francella) in the series “El Encargado”, which in Brazil was called “Meu Querido Zelador” and is shown on Disney+. The third season has already ended in Argentina.
In the first two seasons, Eliseo deals with simpler issues that can cost him dearly in his lifestyle. For example, the residents of the building want to destroy the house he lives in on the top floor to build a swimming pool.
Eliseo plays with the residents as if they were chess pieces, discovering their secrets, blackmailing them and, secretly, pitting them against each other until he gets the votes to block the project.
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In the second season, he engages in a battle full of traps until he emerges victorious and takes the apartment from an old lady with no heirs, becoming the new owner and also the caretaker, becoming the most powerful person in the building.
In the third season, we find him in a different position, even geographically. He is in a luxurious hotel in São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro, with other caretakers from all over the world in an attempt to find solutions to the new demands of the market.
While his friends are having fun in the pool, Eliseo is bored. And the waters are stirring up his ideas. When he returns to Buenos Aires, he says he will never leave his neighborhood again and that he will conquer it completely.
Eliseo sets up a company to outsource janitors. No one pays taxes, health insurance, or insurance for work accidents.
Soluciones Integradas Basurto has become a sort of powerful Uber for caretakers, but it also neglects the elderly who used to ask their trusted caretakers to take their dogs for a walk in the early hours of the morning, or those who thought they would have their windows cleaned in the morning after a weekend trip. Everything is charged in Eliseo’s world, but the unions are not the ones who benefit.
Those who don’t like spoilers should avoid the last paragraph, but I warn you that it won’t be that revealing, since the conclusion is obvious. Eliseo’s experiment, which seems to be a resounding success right from the start, will be quickly identified by those who most hate supporters of Javier Milei and Jair Bolsonaro, the authorities and the “political caste”, the state bureaucracy and the inefficiency of the public machine.
The series will have an explosive encounter, as could be felt in some neighborhoods of Buenos Aires on the night of the last episode, when there were small protests in one of the final moments.
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