Occasionally there comes along a cultural artifact so peculiar that adequate vocabulary does not yet exist to describe it. That was certainly the case with HBO's "Los Espookys," a program whose narratives so effectively eschewed Hollywood convention that even its authors had a tough time coming up with an elevator pitch.
On an interview on "The Tonight Show" in September, co-creator Ana Fabrega glossed it as "a show about a group of friends who have a business where they stage different types of stunts to people who need it." Fellow co-creator, comedian Julio Torres, explained on NPR that the friends live in "a made-up Latin American country" and "create false, supernatural and horror experiences." When faced with the inevitable what-is-it-about question on "Late Night With Seth Myers," comedian Fred Armisen, who first laid the groundwork with HBO for the series, stumbled a bit, then said it was about friends who "get hired to fool people and scare people."
This is all a bit like saying Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is a play about governance. Not technically incorrect, but hardly the full picture.
