Vinson Cunningham reviews the new HBO show featuring the “S.N.L.” writer, whose guest stars include Bowen Yang, Emma Stone, Rosie Perez, Natasha Lyonne, and Tilda Swinton.
This fleeting bit makes for a zany opening, one that prepares you for the bizarre precision of Torres’s vision. He likes surreal situations and befuddling outcomes. Nothing in the work he makes—including the show “Los Espookys,” which he co-created and starred in, and his film from last year, “Problemista”—is ever quite straightforward.
But in order to get one—or, really, to do anything in this society—Julio needs something called “proof of existence,” an official form of identification that he’s hesitant to get. Almost everybody has it, but Julio has a mostly inarticulate aversion to the idea of giving his “existence” over to the bureaucracy of a phantasmic government whose ill intent he can’t see but always feels. He dreams anxiously, about swiftly shrinking rooms. The only way to get an exception from the I.D.
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