Television narratives in a crisis context. COVID-19 in Spanish television fiction series

Abstract

This article analyzes the representation of the COVID-19 crisis made by the Spanish television fiction series which were relayed and produced during the crisis. This article study, from a cualitative methodology, the production context in the pandemic time and the textual analysis (Casetti and DiChio, 1999) of the five productions. It is concluded that this fiction is usefull as catharsis and makes memory with hardly social commitment.