Los Espookys has the funniest horror weirdos on TV

One of the tragedies of having so much damn TV out there is missing out on all the lovable weirdos hiding in the shows you aren’t watching. Consider, for example, Tati, from HBO’s Los Espookys. Tati is the only TV personality like her. Totally realized by comedian Los EspookysTati’s co-creator Ana Fabrega is best described as an improv comedian sketch. Self-described entrepreneur, Tati takes on strange jobs, such as running slideshows at business meetings. Except that the presenter clicks with a clicker. Her shocksSo she can change the slide? She is so sought-after in Hollywood by producers who want to write 10-page versions of classic novels? But it doesn’t take her back to where she was. Her asking price for her rights is $8. There’s simply no one like Tati on TV. She is Schrödinger’s dimwit, all things and nothing at once. In other words: She’s great television.

Los EspookysIt is filled with characters such as Tati. A surreal comedy about a group of friends who launch a business staging “hauntings” for people who need them, Los EspookysTrafficking in the absurd. In one episode, a lazy cemetery groundskeeper hires Los Espookys to pose as ghosts who tell grieving family members that their corpses aren’t buried in the wrong graves, they just wanted to swap spaces post-burial. Another episode sees a widow on the brink separating from her husband hiring them to make him miserable by holding a haunting, where every person he sees acts and looks like him.

Tati is one member of the Espookys gang. All of them are equally charming. There’s leader Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco), a sweet guy who loves horror and is perplexed at the thought of anything else. Andrés (Julio Torres) is the heir to a chocolate empire who falls out of favor with his family and has difficulty maintaining his lifestyle of glam disdain. And Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) is Tati’s older sister and maybe the only “normal” one in the crew.

In a fictional Latin American country where the bizarre and unusual are common, Los Espookys,Tati is the most odd character in an otherwise populated world. With a setting like this — which started as a way to make sense of the fact that the cast of the primarily Spanish-language comedy all hailed from different countries and spoke with different accents — Los EspookysThe universe is created by its characters. You are as strange as your location.

In its second season, which concludes Friday, Renaldo is haunted by the ghost of a dead beauty pageant queen, a water demon tries to get a job at the U.S. Embassy, Andrés begins dating a wealthy widower and conspires with the moon to get rid of his children, and Úrsula’s increasing frustration with everyone causes her to stumble into politics.

Mainly, though, Los EspookysThis is a funny celebration of being strange. Los Espookys is a gang of queer, confused, misguided, stubborn and nonsensical people. There’s no one like them, and every episode I get to hang out with them is some of the best TV I see that week.