History Series / EstoyVivo

* YearInsideHourOutside: in The Walkway, time goes by slower than in Earth. Vargas has trouble adapting due to him spending barely some hours on the Walkway and going back home five years later.

* EaglelandOsmosis: Bizarrely for a Spanish TV series, this seems to be all over the story, as it employs multiple narrative clichés of ''American'' media and sometimes makes the setting resemble United States in ways it should absolutely not. For instance, Bea starts the series in a heavily trite trio of unpopular classmates (a black boy, a {{Nerd}} girl genius and a punk outcast, all of which are typical of American highschool fiction but not of Spanish media), Laura uses Anglo-Saxon family naming conventions that are mostly alien to Spanish culture (most notably, calling every female member of her family "a Vargas", despite in Spain the maiden name is retained after marriage and gets added to the husband's surname for their children, meaning ''none'' of the three women are Vargas in a strict sense), and the Madrid slums are portrayed as a hilarious mix of Detroit and Mexico DF (with nasty bikers, narcos, black gangbangers and an amount of guns almost impossible to find in Spain).

* EaglelandOsmosis: Bizarrely for a Spanish TV series, this seems to be all over the story, as it employs multiple narrative clichés of ''American'' media and sometimes makes the setting resemble United States in ways it should absolutely not. For instance, Bea starts the series in a heavily trite trio of unpopular classmates (a black boy, a HollywoodNerd girl genius and a punk outcast, all of which are typical of American highschool fiction but not of Spanish media), Laura uses Anglo-Saxon family naming conventions that are mostly alien to Spanish culture (most notably, calling every female member of her family "a Vargas", despite in Spain the maiden name is retained after marriage and gets added to the husband's surname for their children, meaning ''none'' of the three women are Vargas in a strict sense), and the Madrid slums are portrayed as a hilarious mix of Detroit and Mexico DF (with nasty bikers, narcos, black gangbangers and an amount of guns almost impossible to find in Spain).

'''''Estoy Vivo''''' (''I'm alive''), is a 2017 Spanish television series by Televisión Española.

Andrés Vargas is a Spanish policeman investigating the case of a dangerous serial killer, ''El carnicero'' (The Butcher). On a chase in which he is left alone by his partner, Vargas drowns. He then awakes in a place called The Walkway, where he is told that his death was not meant to happen. Vargas wants to come back to his family, but he can only do it in a new body. Fortunately, a policeman called Manuel Márquez dies on his way to the police station for his first day of work, and so Vargas is free to enter his body. He finds out that five years have passed, and makes his goal to win his family back.

In his new life, Vargas will have the help of his ''Enlace'' (Liaison), an ally sent by the Walkway to check how he's adapting to Earth and help him out. Vargas will also have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the (literal) demons haunting him.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The three original Liaisons comment that Elena Gamboa was friends with Fernando Simón, the memetically incompetent real life figurehead of the Spanish [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] management center, which obviously draws groans from all the other characters. This gag makes little sense in-universe, however, because Season 4 seems to take place in an AlternateHistory where the pandemic never happened (there are no masks, no security measures and no mention about the virus, for instance, and it is still implied to be set in current time). Given that Simón gained his awful status with the pandemic and was virtually unknown to the average Spaniard before, the characters here shouldn't have even known who is the guy the Liaisons are talking about.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In Season 4, a couple of environmental agents impose a fine on Márquez and company for accidentally killing an animal of an endangered speces with their car, even although Márquez shows them his police badge. This situation already strikes as odd, as it's unknown how the agents discovered it was their car which killed the animal, but even putting that aside, it doesn't really apply to real life. In Spain, the National Police outrank that kind of agents, and given that Márquez identified himself as a cop and implied he was in midst of an operation, they would have been forced to comply and redirect the matter to higher instance.

** Alejo Sauras's character being introduced as a superhuman martial artist before being turned into a wildly inconsistent fighter echoes Javier Gutiérrez's previous series, ''Series/AguilaRoja'', where his character started being a CombatParkour expert who gradually devolved into an unathletic loser.

** The series started as WholePlotReference to ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', with a supernatural detective being brought from death... and equipped with a blue energy gun of all things.

* BaldOfAwesome: Both Vargas and Márquez had them back when they were alive and in their bodies.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The three original Liaisons comment that Elena Gamboa was friends with Fernando Simón, the unfortunately memetic real life figurehead of the Spanish [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] management center, which obviously draws groans from all the other characters. This gag makes little sense in-universe, however, because Season 4 seems to take place in an AlternateHistory where the pandemic never happened (there are no masks, no security measures and no mention about the virus, for instance, and it is still implied to be set in current time). Given that Simón gained his awful status with the pandemic and was virtually unknown to the average Spaniard before, the characters here shouldn't have even known who is the guy the Liaisons are talking about.

** Also in Season 3, Iago has a to fight against waves of other identical Liaisons in their suits, and it turns out the villain is one of them gone rogue, just as in ''Film/MatrixReloaded''.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The three original Liaisons comment that Elena Gamboa was friends with Fernando Simón, the unfortunately memetic real life figurehead of the Spanish [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] management center, which obviously draws groans from all the other characters. This gag makes little sense in-universe, however, because Season 4 seems to take place in an AlternateHistory where the pandemic never happened. Given that Simón gained his awful status with the pandemic and was virtually unknown to the average Spaniard before, the characters here shouldn't even know who is the guy the Liaisons are talking about.

* EaglelandOsmosis: Bizarrely for a Spanish TV series, this seems to be all over the story, as it employs multiple narrative clichés of ''American'' media and sometimes makes the setting resemble United States in ways it should absolutely not. For instance, Bea starts the series in a heavily trite trio of unpopular classmates (a black boy, a HollywoodNerd girl genius and a punk outcast, all of which are typical of American highschool fiction but not of Spanish media), Laura uses Anglo-Saxon collective naming conventions that are mostly alien to Spanish culture (most notably, calling every female member of her family "a Vargas", despite in Spain the maiden name is retained after marriage and gets added to the husband's surname for their children, meaning ''none'' of the three women are Vargas in a strict sense), and the Madrid slums are portrayed as a hilarious mix of Detroit and Mexico DF (with nasty bikers, narcos, black gangbangers and an amount of guns almost impossible to find in Spain).

* NoSocialSkills: The Liaison starts gleefully ignorant of human conventions, and his attempts to learn them are a subplot of Season 1, often with humorous results.

** The last episode involves a plot to use a supernatural stone during a red eclipse to open a portal to the demon world while demons are congregated and trying to kill the main characters. A reference to ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''?

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The three original Liaisons comment that Elena Gamboa was friends with Fernando Simón, the unfortunately memetic real life figurehead of the Spanish COVID-19 management center, which obviously draws groans from all the other characters. This gag makes little sense, however, because Season 4 seems to take place in an AlternateHistory where the pandemic never happened; given that Simón was virtually unknown to the average Spaniard before the pandemic, the characters here shouldn't even know who is the guy the Liaisons are talking about.

** Iago being introduced as a superhuman martial artist before being turned into a wildly inconsistent fighter echoes Javier Gutiérrez's previous series, ''Series/AguilaRoja'', where his character started being a CombatParkour expert who gradually devolved into an unathletic loser.

* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: Márquez is in love with Laura, who is still mourning her late husband Vargas... Who ''is'' Márquez.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In his first appearance, the Liaison ponders how humans only get in trouble with their insistence to love each other. He later goes to experiment it with Susana. This is not very established, though, as other episodes show him having an old flame in the Walkway.

The series is now RTVE's main sci-fi product after the closure of ''Series/AguilaRoja''.

* BaldOfAwesome: Both Vargas and Márquez had them.

** The series cannot seemingly decide whether there are human relationships among the Walkway agents or not. One of the Liaison's establishing moments in the very first episode is pondering about romantic love as if it was something alien to him and his race, and this is how he reacts to his own attraction to Susana... but many episodes later he is shown to have a past but still flirty relationship with a female Walkway coworker, who clearly likes him back enough to make a concession for him in their laws. And yet, when Carlota reveals to be another coworker, she is just as unexperienced in human relationships as Iago was before the second revelation.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Iago.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In his first appearance, the Liaison ponders how humans only get in trouble with their insistence to love each other. He later goes to experiment it with Susana.

* ManInWhite: All of the Walkway staff wear white clothing, giving an angelic yet unmistakably death-related image.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** One of the Liaison's establishing moments in the very first episode is pondering about romantic love as if it was something alien to him and his race. Indeed, this is how he reacts to his own attraction to Susana. However, many episodes later he is shown to have a past but still flirty relationship with a female Walkway coworker, who clearly likes him back enough to make a concession for him in their laws; this shows there ''is'' something like personal attraction in the Walkway as well.
** In his earlier appearances, Iago was a superhuman martial artist, taking out several gun-toting mooks without breaking a sweat. However, this was forgotten mid-Season 1, when he started being captured and taken out by bad guys without putting a fight. A similar case at the beginning of Season 1 indicates the viewers are pretty much meant to forget he used to be a badass. (Ironically, this echoes Javier Gutiérrez's previous series, ''Series/AguilaRoja'', where his character started being a CombatParkour expert who gradually devolved into an unathletic loser.)

** When the Liaison first meets Susana, Márquez introduces him as Joaquín, which the latter absentmindedly completes as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Sabina Joaquín Sabina]] after spotting a poster of the mentioned singer. She then jokingly tells him to call her Music/{{Shakira}}.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Liaison, initially due to not being acclimated to Earthly conventions and later for being a quite wacky guy overall.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One of the Liaison's establishing moments in the very first episode is pondering about romantic love as if it was something alien to him and his race. Indeed, this is how he reacts to his own attraction to Susana. However, many episodes later he is shown to have a past but still flirty relationship with a female Walkway coworker, who clearly likes him back enough to make a concession for him in their laws; this shows there ''is'' something like personal attraction in the Walkway as well.

* NoSocialSkills: The Liaison starts gleefully ignorant of human conventions, and his attempts to learn them are a subplot of the series, often with humorous results.

* SharpDressedMan: Many of the main cast, given their jobs as police detectives, but especially the Liaison, who is always in a shining white suit.

** When he first meets Susana, the Liaison introduces himself as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Sabina Joaquín Sabina]]. She then jokingly tells him to call her Music/{{Shakira}}.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In his first appearance, the Liaison ponders how humans only get in trouble with their insistence to love each other.

* BerserkButton: The Vargas family is quite temperamental.

* ChildProdigy: Bea is a very gifted, intelligent child.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One of the Liaison's establishing moments in the very first episode is pondering about romantic love as if it was something alien to him and his race. However, many episodes later he is shown to have a flirty relationship with a female Walkway coworker, who clearly likes him back enough to make a concession for him in their laws.

* NoSocialSkills: The Liaison starts gleefully ignorant of human conventions, and his learning of them is a subplot of the series, often with humorous results.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Liaison and the rest of the Walkway staff, both in function (they guide souls to afterlife) and esthetic (they are all beautiful humans dressed in white).

* InnocentFanserviceGuy: Earlier in the series, the Liaison strolled through his and Márquez's house nude or in underwear, stating humans are too bothered by their bodies.

* ShoutOut: When he first meets Susana, the Liaison introduces himself as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Sabina Joaquín Sabina]]. She then jokingly tells him to call her Music/{{Shakira}}.

* ShoutOut: When he first meets Susana, the Liaison introduces himself as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Sabina Joaquín Sabina]]. She jokingly replies "You can call me Music/{{Shakira}} if you want".

* ShoutOut: When he first meets Susana, the Liaison introduces himself as Joaquín Sabina. She jokingly replies "You can call me Music/{{Shakira}} if you want".

In his new life, Vargas will have the help of his ''Enlace'' (Liaison), an ally sent by the Walkway to check how he's adapting to Earth and help him out. Vargas will also have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the demons haunting him.

* InnocentFanserviceGuy: Earlier in the series, the Liaison strolled through his and Márquez's house nude or in his underwear, stating humans are too much preoccupied with their bodies.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Carranza, in order to show his otherworldly nature.

Andrés Vargas is a Spanish policeman investigating the case of a dangerous serial killer, ''El carnicero'' (the Butcher). On a chase in which he is left alone by his partner, Vargas drowns.
He awakes in a place called The Walkway, where he is told that his death was not meant to happen. Vargas wants to come back to his family, but he can only do it in a new body.
Fortunately, a policeman called Manuel Márquez dies on his way to the police station for his first day of work, and so Vargas is free to enter his body. He finds out that five years have passed, and makes his goal to win his family back.

In his new life, Vargas will have the help of his ''Enlace'' (Link), an ally sent by the Walkway to check how he's adapting to Earth and help him out. Vargas will also have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the demons haunting him.

* HotBlooded: Vargas/Márquez is prone to violence.

In his new life, Vargas will have the help of his ''Enlace'' (Link), an ally sent by the Walkway to check how he's adapting to Earth and help him adapt. Vargas will also have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the demons haunting him.

** Andrés doesn`t like hypocrites. Or people who sleep with her daughter.

In his new life, Vargas will have the help of his ''Enlace''(Link), an ally sent by the Walkway to check how he's adapting to Earth and help him adapt. Vargas will also have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the demons haunting him.

In his new life, Vargas will have the help of his Enlace ''("Link")'', an ally sent by the Walkway to check how he's adapting to Earth and help him adapt. Vargas will also have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the demons haunting him.

Gabriel Vargas is a Spanish policeman investigating the case of a dangerous serial killer, ''El carnicero'' (the Butcher). On a chase in which he is left alone by his partner, Vargas drowns.
He awakes in a place called The Walkway, where he is told that his death was not meant to happen. Vargas wants to come back to his family, but he can only do it in a new body. Fortunately, a policeman called Manuel Márquez dies on his way to the police station for his first day of work, and so Vargas is free to enter his bo. He finds out that five years have passed, and makes his goal to win his family back.
In his new life, Vargas will have to work hand by hand with his oldest daughter, who has entered the police corps and is his new partner, and survive the demons haunting him.

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