This is a new 2026 series from Amazon/MGM, It tales place in Spain in 1998.
A video store owner falls into a coma, leaving his very modest, conservative wife in charge of their outdated offering, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, and unable to compete with a giant, modern, Blockbuster-style video store directly across the street. She realizes that her only option is to specialize in selling adult films, because the competitor doesn’t have them, and in her words, “Spaniards are the biggest perverts in Europe.” It turns out that her real target market was Spanish women! Her decision causes an uproar in the neighborhood.
This new series is a raunchy Spanish sex comedy (Original title: Cochinas), now streaming on Prime. It’s filled with sex of all sorts (gay and straight), fake porn movies within the show, and broad comedy. When there’s no nudity in the main story, there’s random nudity, as porn film covers come to life, or the conservative housewife imagines herself and everyone else naked. Nudity is, in fact, the very point of the show!
As our underdogs battle with the smug owner of the competing store, the script follows the rules of 80s-90s “slobs vs snobs” shows. That’s a genre I happen to like and there hasn’t been a really good one since Dodgeball (R.I.P, the great Rip Torn) so I welcome this series. In short, this show has something to offend everyone, so I naturally found it very entertaining.
All I can say is Viva España!
There are many nude scenes, so I’ll need some time to cover the whole magilla. Today: episodes 1, 2 and 3.
Daniela Blume, a woman with enormous breasts, plays the women in the faux porno.
Episode 1
Daniela Blume enjoys the sword of Zorro in a faux porn film
Episode 2
Daniela Blume is a naughty nun in a faux porn film.
Esperanza De La Encarnación
Episode 3
Daniela Blume is a victim in a faux horror porn film.
Malena Alterio, the conservative housewife, and many others.
Videos from all three episodes
SIDEBAR: This story takes place in 1998, when Blockbusters were driving “mom ‘n’ pops” out of business, and Spain was still struggling with the aftermath of decades of repression, releasing a pent-up demand for adult entertainment. Today, the internet has driven almost every video store to ruin. The web includes almost every film ever made, porn or not, much of it free. We all know what happened to Blockbuster. It crushed, then was crushed in turn.
The daughter of a friend of ours lived this experience with video store ownership. In the 1990s she had an upscale, sensitively-curated and successful video rental store located in a smallish, tourist-destination town in Ontario. She originally had no interest in having a porn section, as she felt that it did not fit well with the vibe of her store. Eventually, however, she found that her rental business was being undercut by ‘big box’ rental stores like Blockbuster that were located in strip malls in the larger centres not far away. So she changed her approach and also offered a porn section. And she was successful with that for a while, since some people liked the greater selection: some people who liked regular films might occasionsally also rent a porn and vice versa, which was something that you could not do at Blockbuster.
Eventually, of course, her store, as well as all of the larger rental outlets, were put out of business by online streaming. That’s happened everywhere. I believe that there is only one video rental store left in the largish city where I live. Until very recently there were two, but a nice one very near to us, with an incredible selection of hard-to-find films, closed up last year.
Out of interest, I just did some quick research about Blockbuster. It was founded in 1985 as a single video rental store, but by its peak in 2004 it had 9,094 stores worldwide. It declined very quickly after that though. It declared bankruptcy in 2010, and by the following year it had only 1,700 stores left, which were bought out by a satellite TV provider. Almost all of the remaining stores closed very quickly after that, although a few stayed open under private franchise agreements. At this point there is one remaining store, in Bend (Oregon), which seems to operate as a Blockbuster memorabilia centre as much as anything else.
Blockbuster had a chance to buy out Netflix. They simply refused. If they did we probably would still see Blockbuster stores as they might have integrated streaming when it started becoming viable. Then again, Blockbuster might have dropped the ball with streaming too if they owned Netflix at that time.
Yes, the failure of Blockbuster to acquire Netflix was something that I was aware of previously and I have seen it portrayed as a key moment in Blockbuster’s decline. But the truth is more nuanced. When the Blockbuster declined Netflix – in 2000 – the latter company was still fairly early in its development, far from becoming the behemoth that it is now, or could have reasonably been anticipated to ever become. It largely was just an annoyance to Blockbuster at that point, not a big threat.
If Blockbuster had acquired Netflix then they would almost certainly have turned it into…absolutely nothing, just as they did in the case of various other alternative projects that they started or contemplated. Blockbuster’s problem was more fundamental. They were aware to threats to their business model as far back as the mid-1990s, and toyed with various responses, but just did not have the corporate imagination or flexibility to seriously pursue them. They did not seem to be able to realize that that their core business model was actually going to disappear. And it was going to disappear regardless of Netflix. 9
They also considered buying IMDb, The combination of those elements could have made them powerful enough to survive. (Or could have fucked Netflix up if they made the wrong choices.)
Some of the guys who ran Netflix from 1997 until its bankruptcy were friends of mine, all former 7-Eleven guys, including both presidents and the V.P. marketing, who called me for my alleged internet expertise in 1997. They did absolutely nothing I suggested. They tinkered around with trying to mimic Netflix rather than to acquire them, and they dawdled around until Amazon bought IMDb
(Full disclosure: John Antioco was an acquaintance rather than a friend. To be honest, I didn’t like him. But Steve Krumholz and Jim Keyes were friends. By the time Keyes got there, however, the horse had left the barn.)
That last clip with Malena Alterio is pretty awesome. There’s a later scene in the same setting where she walks up the stairs and we see her butt. In both scenes, there’s a dude eating a baguette, which I find hilarious for some reason.
Good stuff. I can jerk to this.
While it’s undoubtedly socially useful for you and like-minded souls to be aware of what goodies are in your basket of jerkability, I’ve never understood the practical utility of it.
Malena, playing the conservative wife, is rather fetching.