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La Máquina Runs on Its Final Sacrifice
For their first TV show, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna challenged themselves to write “an anti-fable where losing was winning your freedom.”
A decade of fine-tuning their script with a team of collaborators transformed it into La Máquina, Hulu’s first Spanish-language series, and an exploration of resisting America’s “culture of winning,” as García Bernal puts it. These subplots seemingly have a natural happy ending: If Esteban won his match or made peace with his father, or Andy and his wife got pregnant and found a way to escape Otras Personas, everything would be fine. But García Bernal and Luna — who broke out in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 queer classic Y Tu Mamá También, reunited in 2008’s Rudo Y Cursi and 2012’s Casa de Mi Padre, and formed two production companies together — weren’t interested in obvious conclusions.
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