Wrong Side of the Tracks

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This is a great show. Remember Clint 'Get-Off-My-Lawn' Eastwood in Gran Torino? Well, Wrong Side of the Tracks is the Spanish version expanded to an eight part series.

We have Jose Coronado playing Tiros, a hard-as-nails grandfather to Irene, his teenage, adopted, Vietnamese granddaughter. The entire family is dysfunctional. Tiros is a big fat jerk. He has driven all his family away. His daughter isn't much better, so Irene is a bit of a mess. So doing what stupid teenagers have done since time immemorial, she makes it worse.

Tiros runs a hardware store in a section of town that is slowly sliding into a slum. According to Tiros it is all because of the Spics, Spanish speaking immigrants from South America. Who knew Spaniards could be racists against people who are so similar to themselves? Reminds me of the Emo Philips story about the heretic scum.

We've got Amanda, a good, pretty cop and Ezequiel, a flamboyant bad cop, Sondra, the local drug kingpin, a bunch of high school kids, and Tiros and his old war buddies. The show bounces around from the cops to the kids to family arguments to sleazy thugs and the mood changes with each bounce, from serious to terrifying to cringe-inducing to very, very funny. It's a great show.

Netflix, in Spanish with English subtitles.