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I have other things to think about, and Id rather put this energy into daydreaming about potentialScooby-Doospin-offs.
What does that mean, exactly?
In another, an insomniac woman needs to be convinced shes dreaming so maybe she will actually fall asleep.
Sometimes people need to be haunted and the spirits beyond cannot always deliver.
So Los Espookys do it for them.
Its Latinx and queer as hell, sure, but mostly uninterested in saying so.
Characters on a straight show dont need to do any explaining, right?
Whiteness never has to be explained.
Weve accepted it as the default.
Its just gonna happen.
Did I mention its not in English?
Thats not to say there isnt tension behind the breeziness.
It just happens to be, for these people, not a band or making movies.
Its this weird business about making horror for people.
I often consider the shows setting: A fictional Latin-American nation where the surreal sits comfortably alongside the mundane.
Maybe these things are true, maybe they arent but does it matter?
(We beat David Lynch to his own schtick by several decades.)
You want to know whats going on?Youdo the work.
Or better yet, just trust us.
People think people need answers, and they dont, Fabrega says.
You dont have to hold their hand throughout the episode.
you’re free to take them along with you.
It is not stressed often enough how much marginalized artists just want to goof off.
Its not a show thats trying to educate an audience about being any of those things.
And made a show that was very blissful and unpreoccupied with those sorts of things.
This is whatLos Espookysmeans to me.
The calls to make weird, kitschy horror for people who need it?
Those are much rarer.
