IFamily

iFamily was a Spanish family comedy that ran for eight episodes on TVE in 2017, and starred Raúl Fernández, Antonio Garrido, Antonio Resines, Bárbara Goenaga and Fernando Cayo. Due to poor critical reception and dismal viewership figures, it was not renewed for a second season.

Why It’s Not a Family

 * 1) Convoluted and nonsensical premise: Kike, a man who just returned to Spain after fleeing Bangkok, where he got into trouble due to mounting gambling debt, suddenly finds himself appointed legal tutor of his four nephews because his widower brother Luis is in a coma as a result of an accident, and the kids would rather have an uncle they barely know as their tutor than be sent away to separate boarding schools. Except Luis is not in a coma: he's a corrupt executive charged with tax fraud who is faking a coma to avoid serving 12 years in prison (a plan that still leaves him confined in a room, so there's not really much of a benefit to it).
 * 2) It falls into Spanish television's old trap of trying to appeal to every possible demographic, and as a result it fails to set a consistent tone. More to the point, there are too many moments where the writers apparently forgot that this show was also meant to be watched by kids.
 * 3) * The show starts in an way that's oddly dark for a family sitcom: the first two sequences of the first episode involve Kike escaping from a shootout in Bangkok, and an unconscious Luis being rushed to the hospital after an accident.
 * 4) * Luis blatantly threatening to murder Kike after he blackmails him over his false coma also feels out of line for a show supposed to appeal to kids.
 * 5) * And there's also a sequence where Isa attempts to wake Luis from his coma with a strip tease. Granted, the only piece of clothing that she does take off is her jacket, but she flashes her bra for her supposedly comatose husband.
 * 6) * And Kike, having learned nothing from his experiences in Bangkok, gambling and playing poker in the back of Curro's bar.
 * 7) The theme song is annoying and repetitive in its second half.
 * 8) Antonio Resines is once again typecast as a grumpy bartender.
 * 9) Unfunny jokes across the board, including a cringeworthy segment of Kike disguising as a woman.
 * 10) Off-color joke in the first episode when Kike notices that everyone remembers the debts he had left behind when he left Spain for Bangkok, wondering aloud if "nobody suffers from Alzheimer's in here".
 * 11) The romance arc between Kike and Lola is extremely predictable.
 * 12) The title is pointless, since the main family does not rely that much on technology, and while topics like online bullying are addressed, they feel clumsily shoehorned in.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) The four child actors actually show promise with a solid work in this show, even if the material they're given is mostly bad.

Reception
iFamily holds a rating of 4.8/10 in IMDb. It was met with a negative reception from critics on Spanish media, who pointed out that the show's creators had been behind some successful shows of the 1990s and 2000s and seemed content to just stick to the worn-out formula of their old hits. Due to poor viewership figures, the last three episodes aired on late-night timeslots (the sixth at 11:15 PM and the seventh and eighth at 12:30 AM).