Spain, 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A video store owner falls into a coma, leaving his very modest, conservative wife in charge of their outdated offering, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, and unable to compete with a giant, modern, Blockbuster-style video store directly across the street.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.” 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 in public. 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.
Daniela Blume, with her 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 amd pops” out of business, and Spain was still struggling with the aftermath of decades of repression. 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.