# Malviviendo (2008)

> A group of cannabis-smoking friends in a fictional Seville neighborhood stumble through their aimless lives in a low-budget, self-parodying online comedy.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/36266

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 30
- Episode runtime: 30 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: David Sainz
- Network: YouTube
- Cast: David Sainz, David Valderrama, Tomás Moreno, Carlos Medrano, Javi Lería, Daniel Mantero, Amanda Mora, Manuel Noguera del Ojo
- TMDB rating: 8.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2097031/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: irreverent, breezy, sardonic, scruffy, absurd

## What critics say

Viewers received the online series warmly, with positive public reviews that built its following after the first episodes launched.

## Synopsis

Malviviendo (2008-2014) is a Spanish online comedy series created by David Sainz and produced by Diffferent Entertainment, released in short episodes across three seasons. David Sainz also plays Negro, the scheming center of a group of friends including El Zurdo (David Valderrama), El Kaki (Tomás Moreno) and El Postilla (Carlos Medrano), who drift through their everyday lives in the fictional Los Banderilleros neighborhood of Seville. Their days are built around cannabis, petty schemes and personal troubles that never quite resolve, and each episode tends to hinge on a small, absurd predicament. Police inspector Gonzalo Robledo (Daniel Mantero) occasionally circles the group, adding a dash of procedural pressure. The series leans heavily on parody, with episodes that send up Dexter, Lost, The Sopranos, Prison Break and other shows, and it borrows the energy of cult cine quinqui films about marginal youth. Shot with a mostly amateur cast working without pay, it has a scrappy, homemade texture and a loose, irreverent mood that rewards viewers who enjoy rough-edged neighborhood humor. Fans of Workaholics, Broad City and Community will find kinship in its scruffy friendships and self-aware satire. Its tone is breezy and sardonic, with a streak of melancholy beneath the jokes about stalled lives in working-class Andalusia.

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