'Los Espookys,' HBO’s new Spanish-language series from co-creators Fred Armisen, Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega. is seriously quirky, often absurd and totally works. Read Alan Sepinwall's review
— are less confounding but still complex. The series, set mostly in an unnamed Latin American country, primarily unfolds in Spanish with English-language subtitles; as fair turnabout, scenes where characters speak English get Spanish subtitles. Where the use of a foreign language tends to connote something highbrow ,Documentary Now!
The scares that Renaldo and his friends provide are frequently so low-fi that it’s a wonder they convince anyone, yet the series will casually send the vapid American ambassador into a mirror dimension, or have Andrés haunted by a water demon promising to reveal the truth about his adoption into a family of wealthy chocolatiers.
Armisen has a recurring role as Renaldo’s Uncle Tico, who lives out his dream job as a valet parking attendant in Los Angeles. But the focus is on the three friends, plus Úrsula’s sister Tati , an enthusiastic flake who interprets the world differently from those around her.
The show’s tone and sense of reality are so elastic, it’s unsurprising that Tati is played by one of its co-creators. But no matter how dryly weird things get, there’s a sense of camaraderie and optimism among the title characters that’s infectious. The line between comedy and horror is often so blurry as to be non-existent, and the two subjects match up in a very appealing way throughout
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