[1][2] Characters display an unmistakable progressive worldview,[3] with the stories tending to bring to light the inner contradictions of the generation who had grown in opposition to the Francoist regime, even if the explicitly political elements generally feature as a backdrop.
[4] The sketch of the typical protagonist of the early comedia madrileña is that of a forty-year-old urban male with an [implicit] university education, trapped in an existential crisis.
[7] Seminal works of the comedia madrileña are considered to be either Fernando Colomo's Tigres de papel [ca] (1977)[8] or What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
[11] Other examples include Trueba's Sal gorda [es], Miguel Ángel Díez's De fresa, limón y menta and José Luis Cuerda's Pares y nones.
[1] The template was somewhat updated to a new social context in the 1990s with films such as Emilio Martínez Lázaro's The Worst Years of Our Lives (1994) and Álvaro Fernández Armero's Todo es mentira (1994).