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- 2024
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2024
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- HBO
Summary While searching for a gold oyster earring, Julio (Julio Torres) meets a variety of characters in an alternative New York City in this comedy series created and directed by Torres.
Created By: Julio Torres
- 2024
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2024
- TV-MA
- HBO
Fantasmas
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 7, 2024
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6.8
Summary While searching for a gold oyster earring, Julio (Julio Torres) meets a variety of characters in an alternative New York City in this comedy series created and directed by Torres.
Created By: Julio Torres
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
87
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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I loved it. It's a wild ride — absurd, disturbing, demented, hilarious, brilliant. .... Like the best TV, the product of a singular vision. If anyone complains there's nothing different out there, show them this. They can thank you later.
By the end of its run, Fantasmas establishes itself as a powerful rebuke to mid TV. This is long-form, sketch-like episodic television at its most inventive. With this wild ride of a show, Torres continues to prove he’s one of our most astute storytellers working today.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
6.8
65% Positive
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12% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
6.8
65% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
12% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
23% Negative
10 Ratings
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Torres has successfully forged a platform for his uncompromised, unfiltered voice. But between the lines, “Fantasmas” hints at how hard he’s had to fight to stay himself, even if his work suggests Torres couldn’t be anyone else if he tried.
If his other recent work has come with a noticeable melancholy amid the surrealism, Fantasmas offers pure, playful glee.
There are certain themes and stylistic motifs that Torres returns to again and again — Swinton plays a water spirit who lives in Julio’s commode(*), just as his Los Espookys character frequently sought answers from garishly-dressed spirits. But they work more often than not (the Santa trial is one of the few that lands almost entirely flat) because they’re so obviously specific to this creator-performer, and because they’re done with such imagination even when he’s returning to old ideas.
Your experience of “Fantasmas” may depend on your taste for Torres’s brand of offbeat riffs and fanciful imagery. But whether you find it tickling or twee, there is substance at its heart.
Sketch comedies by their nature tend towards inconsistency, and Fantasmas is no exception, but its strong style and vision provide a high baseline of entertainment even when the jokes are hit-or-miss and the connecting narrative doesn’t come together as satisfyingly as it could. It’s like nothing else currently on television, and it’s fun to live in Torres’ mind for these six half-hours.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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NOT FUNNY, WEIRD. WRONG FOR HBO TO SHOW THIS .
YUCK Do not waste your time, I would rather look at boiling water..
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Production Company:
- 3 Arts Entertainment
- Fruit Tree
- Irony Point
Initial Release Date: Jun 7, 2024
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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