‘Los Espookys’ is back! The series’ creators discuss the four-year journey to get HBO’s most unconventional comedy back on screen.
’ second season takes even bigger swings than the show’s debut outing, effortlessly mining humor in situations from presidential elections to office birthday culture and men who wear one dangly earring—in both Spanish and English. “We’re a very fun-first kind of show,” says Torres. Fabrega and Torres chatted withVanity Fair:When cases started popping up in the U.S., we were in Santiago, [Chile]. It took a little bit longer for cases to get down there.
How closely do you both work together and with your third cocreator, Fred Armisen, when coming up with theWhen we start writing, we'll spend a few weeks just throwing out a bunch of ideas of stuff that we think is funny without worrying about tying everything together yet. Once we have a big board to pull ideas from, then we'll start to piece things together and try to connect the dots. I do think that this season was a lot more character-driven rather than plot.
You’re able to blend absurd comic sequences with biting social commentary. How do you strike that balance?It's not really planned. We write the whole season, which is, I think, pretty unusual for a TV show. We don't really have a staffed writers' room. We'll conceive the season and then we will bring in some help to help structure it and have sound arcs and all those things. We're a very fun-first kind of show. Frankly, we reverse engineer a lot of it.