HBO axes perfect scoring Rotten Tomatoes series after two seasons



The Independent’s Annabel Nugent arsenic soon arsenic called the absurdist drama ‘the pleasant show you’re present not looking’

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HBO has axed 1 successful each its archetypal bid aft champion seasons, notwithstanding it earning a coveted champion standing connected Rotten Tomatoes.

Starring Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Bernardo Velasco and Fred Armisen, Los Espookys follows a acceptable of friends successful Mexico City who alteration their emotion of fearfulness films into a commercialized endeavor via processing frightening conditions and convincing radical they’re actual.

Since its debut successful 2019 and its play merchandise successful September, the absurdist drama presently sits astatine a captious standing of a 100 per cent.

However, adjacent arsenic the broadly speaking Spanish-language amusement managed to triumph implicit critics’ hearts, it’s mostly flown underneath the public’s radar, which would perchance explicate the astonishing cancellation.

Confirming the quality successful a declaration shared with Variety, HBO wrote: “We are pleased we whitethorn privation to present the unsocial and hilarious 2nd play of ‘Los Espookys’ to viewers finally, greater than 3 years aft the bid astir useful, due to the fact that of pandemic delays.

Thanking Torres, Fabrego and Armisen “for this resourceful and delightfully bizarre satellite they created”, the streamer said: “We are not presently making plans connected a 3rd season, but we would invited the anticipation to enactment with this formed and squad successful the destiny.”

Now, though “the fantabulous amusement you’re not looking” (as defined with the assistance of The Independent’s Annabel Nugent) will present not maintain, she makes a compelling lawsuit for wherefore you request to nevertheless instrumentality a look astatine it out.

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“Every Los Espookys instalment clocks successful astatine 25 minutes. Each morsel is short, sweet, and leaves you looking more. These days, that’s a unsocial feeling,” Nugent writes.

“In a TV panorama progressively much defined via center-ground mulch, Los Espookys dares to beryllium peculiar – and is each of the higher for it.”

Los Espookys is disposable to travel connected HBO Max wrong the US and Sky Atlantic and NOW successful the UK.

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