One thing youâre never gonna do is break up Gael GarcĂa Bernal and Diego Luna. The friends and collaborators first appeared onscreen together in 2001âs queer classic Y Tu MamĂĄ TambiĂŠn, went on to create two production companies together, and teamed up to play stepbrothers with dreams of soccer stardom in 2008âs Rudo y Cursi. After more than a decade apart, theyâre back at each otherâs side in another sports-related project they produced: Huluâs limited series La MĂĄquina.
Led by showrunner and writer Marco Ramirez (whose writing credits include Sons of Anarchy and The Defenders, and who co-created The Twilight Zone reboot with Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg), La MĂĄquina follows aging boxer Esteban âLa MĂĄquinaâ Osuna (Bernal), who after a major loss considers whether heâs done in the ring. But his flashy manager and Botox-addicted best friend, Andy Lujan (Luna, in some unsettling prosthetics), isnât ready to hang it up and instead encourages Osuna to launch a comeback; all of that seems like pretty standard triumphant sports-drama stuff. La MĂĄquina takes a turn, though, when a mysterious figure insists to Lujan that Osuna throw his next fight, or else â an ominous threat that impacts Lujan, Osuna, and Osunaâs ex-wife, a journalist played by Eiza GonzĂĄlez.
âIf weâre doomed, weâre doomed togetherâ will probably launch a thousand more ships for Bernal and Luna. All six episodes of La MĂĄquina, Huluâs first Spanish-language original, premiere on the streamer October 9.