Algo que me gustó mucho fue la manera en la que Mark, nuestro protagonista, tenía la intención de ayudar a los monstruos aunque su organización carecía de fondos y era constantemente atacado por su superior jefe demoniaco. Ese espíritu siempre está presente en nosotros, ¿no es así?: Ayudar sin obtener nada a cambio. Mark no ganaba más que un salario limitado y, para mala suerte, debía confrontar un centenar de situaciones alocadas para mantener vivo su grupo de apoyo. Al final de cada episodio escuchábamos una de sus reflexiones; motivaciones que dejaban a un lado el humor y lo mostraban como una gran lección de vida. Ser bueno sin importar las consecuencias… ¿Ustedes qué creen?
Yo creo que sí, aunque no por eso hay que ser ingenuos. Dejémosle la ingenuidad a las series de Televisión ;-)

¡Vayan a ver Ungly Americans!

No es una amenaza, es una sugerencia, LOL. Ungly Americans es una serie de televisión para adultos con muchos matices satíricos e incluso filosóficos; una prueba al cerebro sobre las relaciones humanas y la política amarillista. Es una obra bastante inteligente, además, hay un mago que es la versión antagónica de Gandalf: corrupto y mal viviente. ¿A quién no le gustan los magos? A mi si, y más cuando dan mucha risa.

English

I have dreamed of going to New York ever since I saw those musicals on Broadway about possible dreams and people who become millionaires baking cakes. American dream? Perhaps nothing is impossible, not even for a kid living in a country where even dreams are consumed by economic inflation, but that is another matter. Leaving aside my desire to go to the city that never sleeps (if it is not Las Vegas) I must admit that I would not be surprised to find strange things in New York, such as werewolves with high standards of education or zombies that instead of eating brains eat girls, and not in a carnivorous sense.

Ungly Americans is an animated series that shows the hidden side of New York, perhaps in the form of an analogy or a metaphor: a satire of American society and broken, unwary, indecent and decadent roles. It's like watching those Halloween specials only the fear has an epicenter in the social traumas which, in turn, are ridiculous.

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If you've ever visited New York chances are you've come across a certain Mark and his support group for monsters. He's a loser, I know, but at least he helps other losers. In his therapies you will find all kinds of routines for overcoming that work for anyone, including lycanthropes or talking brains. The department of social services of the city symbol of freedom had never been so well integrated (ironically, XD) by people of high level in impudence and petulance. A bunch of demons! And yes, I don't understand you: in Ungly Americans the high positions are represented by these creatures, coincidences? At least these aren't disguised, lol.

Mark's story follows the comedy of a hybrid city with many problems to deal with. Issues like immigration, class differences and corruption are approached without suspicion. A bit of that other face of America appears to make us laugh and, in a sarcastic way, show us how stupid and innocent can be a person who is used to orchestrate a diabolical and nefarious plan. Charity? It's possible, but we already know what happens when funds are misappropriated and fall into the wrong pockets. A lot of nerve is present in this animated work for adults.

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Ungly Americans unleashes a humorous critique of the American system itself and its social beliefs. In a New York where the Monsters are denigrated or need "social assistance" it is easy to make a comparison with the realistic vision to which, for example, immigrants are subjected. The very name of this crazy satire already gives us a clear example of what he wants to convey to viewers. From a troubled King Kong to a Bolivian Koala who wants to change his life after participating in a homicide squad. In large part it is a series of "Adaptation": finding what cannot be found in a city of populism.

In this regard, some messages that I found interesting in Ungly Americans:

Nothing is free

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Although we are not monsters, it is likely that they consider us as one, and not necessarily because we are bad or ugly. Society divides classes and selects by hand to give "opportunities" to those who do not have them. I don't like to talk about politics, but Ungly Americans is a reflection of what many of us think when from above, they give us coins to raise hopes. Are we all part of a game of interests? Well, my grandmother used to tell me that nothing is free, and what seems to be free leads you to pay triple what you would never have paid...

What do I mean?

Watching this television series, I noticed many ironic references to the tabloid American system: it offers a lot, but asks in return. The monsters want to fit in and be like any other New Yorker, and yet they must deal with that "feeling" that doesn't allow them to feel safe. Deceived with promises of low resources and the living threat of a total closure, these beings only have a Mark who advises them and promises things that will never come, although he himself does not lose hope. The naivety of the protagonist is what really makes you laugh.

Neutral coexistence between classes

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In Ungly Americans there are many distinctions between one class and the other: both monsters and humans live in the same society, there are traumas for everyone! Regardless of status. The spectrum of this series is immersed in work environments and their different roles, especially in those with destination of public funds. This is how that message of: "everyone is happy with their problems" quickly appears in the episodes of this conventional satire. And that is what maintains a balance between the high and the low, the poor and the rich. Even in reality itself we say something like this:

“I have too many problems to care about others.”

We keep busy and that's what helps us live together, otherwise we would already be in an anarchist society.

Happiness even with little