Fred Armisen's new HBO horror comedy has a title that's fun to say and a droll sense of humor likely to make it a cult favorite.
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Bernardo Velasco stars as Renaldo, a devotee of scary movies shaped by a lifetime of feeling like an outsider because his name is "Renaldo" and not "Reynaldo." Renald's best friends are Andres , the heir to a chocolate fortune haunted by his origins as an orphan, Ursula , a dentist defiantly unwilling to smile herself, and Ursula's sister Tati , a kooky free spirit working an endless series of odd jobs as she looks for her place in the world.
For each of the characters, the group is treated as the whimsical dream getting in the way of more traditional vocations or interests — be it Andres' involvement in the family's copyright-infringing candy empire, Renaldo's constant rebuffing of the attractive virgin next door who badly wants to have sex with him or the respectability of teeth for Ursula. As Armisen's Tico puts it, "All I ever wanted to do was park cars. Now I do it full-time.
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