TV Review: Los Espookys – If Napoleon Dynamite Was In The Addams Family
Los Espookys Season 2 feels like Ghostbusters and Napoleon Dynamite had a perfect, Latino Child that they sent to graduate in the Upright Citizens Brigade located right in El Barrio Del Chavo with the Addams Family as neighbors. While Latino representation is still a struggle, Los Espookys proves it is not hard to see human beings as human… and really funny. What felt like a gem of a Season 1, this next installment feels like a perfected diamond.
There is an absolute deluded looniness and awkward silliness to Los Espookys that, at the very least, makes it unique in the comedy landscape. For me, what makes a comedy thrive is not only its wit but its memorability and distinctness. Absolutely no character here is forgettable or dislikable, which feels rare. In this current, media landscape, it can often feel like a platter of screwed up characters that charm there way out of accountability or, at the very least, use their brokenness to excuse why they break others, ( coughs Rue from Euphoria coughs). Yet, part of the charm of Los Espookys is that these are a group of very weird friends that have really sweet hearts.
Created by Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres, two phenomenal stand up comedians, Los Espookys picks up with their unique, spooky business thriving. Their clientele is growing with even weirder requests for them to: impersonate the dead at a cemetery that simply does not bury people in their right graves, create an archaeological site for two ancient, gay lovers that died with their discotheque gear on, and act like a demon, stuffed animal to convince students to respect their teacher, etc. These very strange scenarios only highlight the charming quirkiness of each of its leads that get equal note to shine.
Renaldo ( Bernardo Velasco) is the ¨leader of sorts¨ and keeps on having visions of a pageant queen with an anchor impaled within her. Tati (Ana Fabrega) is now a married woman, and the result are some laughable attempts to be matrimonial. Meanwhile, Andres (Julio Torres) feels lost with Tati now married to his ex, his parents banishing him from his wealth, and his visions with La Luna (Yalitza Aparicio) becoming even more surreal. Add on Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) being chased by reporters and felt sisterly duties to Tati, while Tico tries to be more fatherly to his long lost daughter. In a way, this season heightens the crews power to hoist the supernatural into Scooby-Doo like situations/ sets, but also further that good people have eerie problem, too.
Whether it is having your sewing skills rejected or hiding chocolate into carved carrots to appear healthy, life is filled with little issues and the many ways we tried to hide just how unusual we are as people: from intentions to interests. Los Espookys thrive because they are a bunch of weirdos that cannot hide their own attraction to the weird, but being different does not being bad. If anything, this show proves good people are rare.
