Los Espookys: Season 1

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Los Espookys: Season 1

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: June 14, 2019

Summary: The Spanish-language comedy from Fred Armisen is set in Mexico City where Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) and his friends Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti), her sister Tati (Ana Fabrega) and Andres (Julio Torres) create a business from their passion for horror and gore.

Creator: Fred Armisen and Julio Torres and Julio Torres

Genre(s): Comedy, Horror

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E7. Los Espiritus en el Cementerio
Air Date: September 16, 2022
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S1:E6. El sueño falso (The Fake Dream)
Air Date: July 19, 2019
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S1:E5. El laboratorio alienigena (The Alien Lab)
Air Date: July 12, 2019

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The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Nov 1, 2021

To say Los Espookys is easy to watch might sound like damning it with faint praise, but it takes serious skill to conjure up a world this strange, and make it look so easy. Read full review

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Collider Haleigh Foutch

Jun 14, 2019

a wonderfully weird and inventive show that inspires exactly that kind of thought at least once an episode, embracing bizarre characters, off-kilter humor, and a heady dose of magical realism where the impossible can, and often does, happen. It’s also hilarious. Read full review

Kristen Baldwin

Jul 3, 2019

The jokes are fast-paced and tinged with absurdity; at its best, Los Espookys can feel like a half-hour telenovela assembled in the 30 Rock writers’ room. ... For all of its fantastical foolishness, Los Espookys is, at its heart, a comedy about friendship, following your passions, and fighting the urge to fit in. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Jun 14, 2019

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 Los Espookys. Read full review

Emily Nussbaum

Jul 1, 2019

Torres and Ciangherotti are magnetic, and Velasco is a treat as the bubbly Renaldo. But it’s Fabrega, as Tati, who feels like the true original. Her performance evokes weirdos like Reverend Jim, on “Taxi.” Read full review

Kristi Turnquist

Jun 18, 2019

With its light touch and affection for its characters’ foibles, “Los Espookys” is refreshing, different, and best, of all, funny. Read full review

Verne Gay

Jun 13, 2019

As what you'd expect from the mind of Fred Armisen — quirky, strange, at times off-putting, at other times, engaging, and full of puckish charm. Read full review

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metabad

Jul 6, 2019

It's a typical Fred Armisen show with the humor you might have gotten to know from his other shows.
There's a fair amount of funny and quirky stuff in there (the wooden fan that has no power and one of the female leads has a job spinning it manually :-))) )
It's about a group of friendsIt's a typical Fred Armisen show with the humor you might have gotten to know from his other shows.
There's a fair amount of funny and quirky stuff in there (the wooden fan that has no power and one of the female leads has a job spinning it manually :-))) )

It's about a group of friends who start to make a living out of spook gigs.
And, by the way, the show is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Armisen plays a minor role and it's fun to watch him speak Spanish (he can do it, his mother is from Venezuela).

The characters a likable and enthusiastic, just like the entire show, but you regularly wonder how they pull of their gigs.
Given the money and technical equipment they have (or more like the lack thereof), I can't see how they're supposed to be able to do all this.

To be fair, there are more things, more plotlines involving other characters going on in each episode than just the spook gigs and they have a quirky charm.
However, I didn't find them neither compelling nor funny enough.
They always hint at something funnier, but it simply doesn't happen.
Fans of Fred Armisen will probably like this show no matter what.

I must admit that I overdose on Fred Armisen's humor fairly quickly, so you have to take my review with a grain of salt.

All in all the show has it charms, but in all that it offers, it isn't quite enough to feel it worth my time.
I'm not sure whether I'll continue to watch it.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

84

Series Overview
Season 2

91
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 16, 2022
Season 1

83
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 14, 2019
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  S1:E7. Los Espiritus en el Cementerio
  Air Date: September 16, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E6. El sueño falso (The Fake Dream)
  Air Date: July 19, 2019
- tbd
  S1:E5. El laboratorio alienigena (The Alien Lab)
  Air Date: July 12, 2019
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  S1:E4. El espejo maldito (The Cursed Mirror)
  Air Date: July 5, 2019
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  S1:E3. El monstruo marino (The Sea Monster)
  Air Date: June 28, 2019
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  S1:E2. El espanto de la herencia (The Inheritance Scare)
  Air Date: June 21, 2019