Las Ruinas

**Las Ruinas** (**The Ruins** in English) is the third episode for Season 2, and the ninth overall of the HBO series *Los Espookys*. It premiered on September 30, 2022.

## Premise

*Delighted with the success of her town’s attractions, [[Mayor Teresa Lobos (Carmen Gloria Bresky) runs for president, and gets unexpected guidance from Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti). When Los Espookys must help a professor prove his bogus theory about ancient queer people, Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) looks to Tico (Fred Armisen) for assistance. After Úrsula (Ciangherotti) kicks Andrés (Julio Torres) out to make room for a freshly divorced Tati (Ana Fabrega), he finds a new home with a rich handsome widower.*

## Plot summary

Mayor Teresa Lobos announces her presidential run on a TV show.

Tati clashes with Juan Carlos during the divorce proceedings and ends up a victor by taking a box of cookies and a yo-yo. Úrsula’s desperation for defeating De La Guarda grows more and she goes to Mayor Teresa to tell her she needs a strategy to win the election.

Andrés finds a new gig that he leaves in a second when a rich widower asks him to, taking the easy route and the easy life.

Meanwhile, Tico is anxious about not being useful at all and not having anything to do. Renaldo asks him to join Los Espookys, Tico does and is super enthused about it.

The case of the week involves an archaeological professor asking for the crew’s help in planting fake evidence at an excavation site. He had proposed to his students, a baseless theory about there being a historical and anthropological reason behind queer people wearing dangly earrings on one side. When contested and asked to provide evidence, professor Robert Roberts enlisted the help of Los Espookys. The crew demands three skeletons and gets on working.

At the archaeological site, the operation is busted when Tico sabotages it with his overt and loud excitement. That and the fact that these skeletal remains had ears and visibly, extremely modern and well-preserved ornaments. Tico is upset with his own incompetence when Renaldo asks for his help regarding the visions of Nuestra Belleza Latina. Tico suggests he visit Karina’s grave, dig her remains out, and relieve his head of the visions.

Meanwhile, Úrsula decides to help Mayor Lobos herself in winning the election, on one condition; that she must get rid of the misogynist signs containing objectifying female silhouettes.

## Cast and characters

### Starring:

* Bernardo Velasco as Renaldo
* Cassandra Ciangherotti as Úrsula
* Ana Fabrega as Tati
* Julio Torres as Andrés
* José Pablo Minor as Juan Carlos
* Fred Armisen as Uncle Tico

### Guest-Starring:

* Giannina Fruttero as Beatriz
* Spike Einbinder as Sombra del Agua
* River L. Ramirez as Sonia
* Greta Titelman as Ambassador Melanie Gibbons
* Carmen Gloria Bresky as Mayor Teresa Lobos
* Martine Gutierrez as Karina Salgado
* Eudora Peterson as Krissy
* Sam Taggart as JJ
* Luis Fernando Hoyos as The Widower

### Co-Starring:

* Amparo Noguera as Isabel from *Mi Puta Suegra*
* Gabriel Urzúa as Fernando from *Mi Puta Suegra*
* Claudia Valentini as Staircase Shopper #1
* Fernando Valenzuela as Staircase Shopper #2
* Jenny Puebla as Archaeologist #1
* Renato Illanes as Buyer #1
* Ana María Pérez as Buyer #2
* Jose Augusto Fuentes as Animal Wrangler
* Nicolas Becar as Fiancé
* Antü Castro as Alberto
* Agustina Garcia as Manuela
* Ikechukwu Ufomadu as Professor Robert Roberts
* Santiago Urbina as Kid Andrés
* Arturo Ruiz-Tagle as Presenter #1
* Maria Grasso as Fiancée
* Roberto Vander as Lawyer

## External links

* *Las Ruinas* on the Internet Movie Database
* Los Espookys on Wikipedia
* Watch Los Espookys on HBO Max

## References

1. ↑ Season 2 Episode Synopses - Warner Media Pressroom