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Critic Reviews
May 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
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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Jun 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Arcs snake in and around a variety of tangentially or unrelated short stories — “sketches” would not do them justice — which might work their way into other stories down the line. Some are horror stories, some have a tinge of film noir. Some are framed as television shows. Some are oddly moving. Several will meet at the end, quite beautifully.
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Jun 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Fantasmas is a good example of a show where viewers just need to buckle in and enjoy the visual and auditory ride, instead of trying to figure out exactly what is going on. The less you try to compare it to any other show you’ve seen, the more you’ll enjoy this journey through Julio Torres’ head.
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Jun 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Jun 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
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.
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The TelegraphAug 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
In each episode we’re also taken inside the TV shows that Julio is watching, and these bits play out as little sketches, usually with capitalism and the workplace as a theme.
Occasionally, these are funny. .... More often, though, the sketches aren’t funny even though they should be.
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