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HBO’s ‘Fantasmas’ Is an Immersive Journey Into the Singular Mind of Creator Julio Torres: TV Review
The HBO sketch show is an immersive journey into the singular mind of creator Julio Torres.
Torres’ imagination yields glamorous, distinctly queer realities with the logic of a fairy tale, grounded by the bemused frustration of an author who had to traverse the American immigration system to bring his dreamy art to life. Anthropomorphizing is a favorite mode of his, hence Steve Buscemi playing an aging, punk personification of the letter “Q.” So is aesthetic excess with no practical purpose, giving us Aidy Bryant in a faux commercial for toilet dresses. With backers like HBO, A24 and Emma Stone — an executive producer on “Fantasmas” who also appears in the show’s “Real Housewives” parody “True Women of New York” — Torres has successfully forged a platform for his uncompromised, unfiltered voice.
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