El Eclipse

**El Eclipse** (**The Eclipse** in English) is the sixth episode for Season 2, and the twelfth overall of the HBO series *Los Espookys*. It premiered on October 21, 2022. It also serves as the second season finale.

## Premise

*Without valet work, a struggling Tico (Fred Armisen) still manages to impart advice to Andrés (Julio Torres). After receiving a symbolic apology from Andrés, Los Espookys stage an eclipse during Mayor Teresa's (Carmen Gloria Bresky) last speech before the election. Later, Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) comes closer to figuring out the truth about Karina’s (Martine Gutierrez) onstage death.*

## Plot summary

Sonia wakes up and the first thing she does is rip Tico’s remaining self-esteem apart by showing him the dress he made for Beatriz having been rejected by her.

Moving from a shattered Tico to the presidential election, the situation seems dire for Teresa as a new poll shows De La Guardia enjoying a 92-point lead over Teresa’s 8. Úrsula watches the poll when Renaldo comes in and tells her why he’s been having visions of Karina all this time. It’s because she was having an affair with De La Guardia and he wanted to silence her from making it public, consequently killing her.
Renaldo surmises this must be why she can’t pass over and haunts him with the visions. Úrsula presses on that they must do something to defeat the guy.

Teresa has other plans though, and pays less heed to Renaldo’s plan involving a wolf, although she does like it. Teresa tells them instead, to fake an eclipse, to distract the audience while she adjusts her skimpy top that would otherwise be falling down for the entirety of the speech to reveal a Tweety Bird tattoo on her breast.

The crew gets on working and the speech day arrives. Teresa does her job as well, while Los Espookys successfully fake the eclipse. Their job is also helped this time, by Andrés who has returned from his introspective vacation. Andrés had gone to a lighthouse thinking back on all the people that have called him out for freeloading and doing nothing on his own.

Tico also arrives near the lighthouse, sulking and grieving over his life of recurring failures. He climbs atop the lighthouse and helps Andrés realize his mistake. The realization dawns on Andrés, albeit only in a trademark insufficient quantity. Anyway, off he goes to the team and he’s changed man now.

To get the real eclipse, he even goes to the real deal and apologizes for standing her up last time and not following his promise. To apologise, he gives away his earring too, an act that the Los Espookys group commends him for.

However, he later gets his earring back anyway.

Meanwhile, Teresa’s plan actually works and she wins the election. The Los Espookys crew celebrates as Andrés heads out to reflect. Renaldo meets Karina once again, except it’s the real, physical deal. Karina is not dead, she was just drugged and kidnapped by De La Guardia to silence her.

However, instead of running away from him now that he doesn’t have the same power, she wants to remain with him. She’s a victim of a toxic relationship she can’t get out of and ignores her friends, therapist, and family. She bids Renaldo farewell after telling him that he’s good at doing what other people want. This strikes his psyche visibly and later he goes to stand up for himself against Sonia and gets his bed back from her, and she even compliments him for doing that.

Meanwhile, Tico is inspired by one of Tati’s books and goes back to doing what he’s best at; Valet Parking.

Andrés has become an owner of a grand mansion thanks to some legal paperwork and inheriting the business he was always inevitably going to inherit.

In the end, Tati goes to a room and asks for some privacy. Inside the room, she closes all the blinds and goes to open her mystical purse but the credits roll just as the contents therein are about to be revealed.

### 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:

* Carmen Gloria Bresky as Mayor Teresa Lobos
* Martine Gutierrez as Karina
* Yalitza Aparicio as Luna
* River L. Ramirez as Sonia
* Spike Einbinder as Sombra del Agua
* Greta Titelman as Ambassador Melanie Gibbons
* Eudora Peterson as Krissy
* Sam Taggart as JJ

### Co-Starring:

* Annie Murath as Mrs. Valdez
* Alejandro Goic as Mr. Valdez
* Natalia Reddersen as Valentina
* Cristián García-Huidobro as Accountant Gustavo
* Cristian Gajardo as Cousin
* Hellen Cáceres as Restaurant Manager
* Diego Gougain as TV Reporter
* Ramón Farías as Spectator #1
* Victor Hugo Ogaz as Spectator #2
* Daniel De La Vega as Spectator #3
* Agustín Silva as Spectator #4
* Claudia Hidalgo as Spectator #5
* Jimena Rivano as Mother Eclipse
* Mauricio Pitta as Father Eclipse
* Bruno Gonzalez as Boy Eclipse
* Seide Tosta as Saturn

## External links

* *El Eclipse* on the Internet Movie Database
* Los Espookys on Wikipedia
* Watch Los Espookys on HBO Max

## References

1. ↑ Season 2 Episode Synopses - Warner Media Pressroom