Los Espookys on HBO.

 

 

Another entry in our They Get Us, They Totally Get Us! “series.”

“It’s unclear, at any given time, how ‘good’ these tricks are supposed to be — or, in a few cases, how the group even pulled them off. But the show isn’t really about the tricks; it’s about telling good jokes, and how these theatrical goofs give the wannabe magicians behind the curtain a sense of direction and meaning.

“‘Los Espookys’ is a horror show that bathes its characters in sunlight, a surreal comedy whose absurdism is outmatched only by the quietly earnest tenderness its writers clearly feel toward the characters they’ve created.”

Vanity Fair

 

Another in our series of They Get Us! posts:

 

 

“By its tenth episode, Lodge 49 becomes a series about our need to believe in that underlying infrastructure — to feel that, beneath the reality we know, the daily existence we all, in the words of one character “just keep grinding out,” there is mystery, fate, purpose, magic. In its oddly gentle, gently odd and entirely distinct way, Lodge 49 makes as good an argument for the existence of a kind of shabby everyday magic as you’ll find anywhere.” NPR Review

We’re just going to steal that and turn it into our Mission Statement.