Amazon imports Diego Luna's political discussion series 'Pan y Circo' ('Bread and Circus'). Read THR's review:
Here's a bleak litmus test for how desperate for company quarantine might have made you: Would you attend a "dinner party" in which the guests pontificate on ultra-serious but impossibly broad topics as they chow down on five-star meals that you yourself won't be able to try for at least the next year? On the plus side, none of the guests get embarrassingly drunk or hold forth on a subject they obviously know too little about.
The forced pause on dilettantish dinner parties seems to me one of the pandemic's few upsides, but Amazon apparently believes there are enough viewers hungry for them — and who are either fluent in Spanish or willing to read subtitles — to import Diego Luna's political discussion series.
Running between 35 to 40 minutes apiece, each episode invites six dinner mates to Luna's table, and may or may not represent opposing points of view. Hailing from all over Latin America but mostly from Mexico, guests range from fellow celebrities like Luna's longtime friend and collaborator Gael Garcia Bernal to activists, scholars, government officials, even a Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Columbia.
There is, of course, no justifiable "both sides" to the killing of women, and thankfully the series doesn't bother to offer disagreement for the sake of disagreement. More surprisingly, the same goes for the episode on abortion, whose most conservative panelist is a pro-choice priest.
The Drug War episode, for example, brings a great deal of complication, albeit haphazardly presented, to the legalization argument that's often trotted out as a silver bullet to cartel violence.
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