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Acapulco

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Acapulco	comment	Acapulco is an American Spanish/English comedy series on Apple TV+. It is loosely inspired by the film How to Be a Latin Lover.In the present day, Malibu-based mogul Maximo Gallardo Ramos (Eugenio Derbez) tells his teenage nephew Hugo (Raphael Alejandro) how he accrued his massive wealth. Maximo's story begins when he was a young man in 1980s Acapulco (Enrique Arrizon) who lands a job at the swanky resort Las Colinas to help support his mother Nora (Vanessa Bouche) and sister Sara (Regina Reynoso). Helping him along are his best friend Memo (Fernando Carsa), the pretty receptionist Julia (Camila Perez) and his "mentor" of sorts, Don Pablo (Damián Alcázar). The cast is rounded out by Jessica Collins as the hotel's starlet owner Diane Davies and Chord Overstreet as her son Chad.The show premiered in October 2021, with a second season following the next year. It has been renewed for a third.
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Acapulco / int_17c7c925	type	Frothy Mugs of Water
Acapulco / int_17c7c925	comment	Frothy Mugs of Water: Invoked. When discussing Julia's bachelorette party, Maximo claims to his teenage nephew Hugo that Hugo's mom Sara was pounding orange juice. Hugo is unconvinced, saying that they were obviously drinking alcohol, but Maximo insists that it was orange juice because he's the one telling the story.
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Acapulco / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Acapulco / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: The couple Maximo helps get engaged in the second episode have known each other since childhood and got together in high school. This sweet backstory makes him feel bad about upselling them with the fake proposal package, and he decides to call back to their first meeting as kids with the tire swing for the proposal instead.
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Acapulco / int_1d294a0b	type	Fake-Hair Drama
Acapulco / int_1d294a0b	comment	Fake-Hair Drama: In the second episode of season two, Maximo waits on a famous tennis player with luscious hair. After he gives Maximo a paltry tip, Maximo, having figured out that this hair is a wig, leaks this information to a gossipy TV personality for big bucks.
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Acapulco / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Acapulco / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The bulk of the story is in flashbacks told by the present-day Maximo to his teenage nephew.
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Acapulco / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
Acapulco / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: Don Pablo gives Maximo a crash course in waiting fine dining set to a Spanish cover of "Eye of the Tiger".
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Acapulco / int_4b32995a	type	Friend-or-Idol Decision
Acapulco / int_4b32995a	comment	Friend-or-Idol Decision: In the seventh episode, Maximo comes up with the perfect birthday gift for his crush Julia: a dress made from one of her designs. But he decides to trade it to her clueless boyfriend Chad in exchange for the opportunity for his mother to meet an eye doctor, putting his family first even though the decision weighs on him. Julia loves the dress and it manages to patch up her relationship with Chad, though she eventually learns that Maximo was behind it.
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Acapulco / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Acapulco / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Sara (rebellious and surly) and her older brother Maximo (hardworking and nice).
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Acapulco / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Acapulco / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Even though he lives in Malibu, Maximo has an impeccable and full-suited British butler. He even lampshades that his butler is pure white to his nephew.
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Acapulco / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Acapulco / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In the third episode, Memo has to choose between a Rubik's cube, which he's always wanted, and getting Maximo's beloved scapular back. He huffs that he has to do the right thing...cut to him playing with the Rubik's cube. He gets a second shot, choosing between a handheld game and the scapular...cut to him playing the game.
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Acapulco / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
Acapulco / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: A variation. The eighth episode explores the past of Don Pablo from the 50s to the 80s. The end of the episode reveals that Don Pablo has died by the time Maximo is telling the story.
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Acapulco / int_7220ed55	type	Token White
Acapulco / int_7220ed55	comment	Token White: Chad and his mother Diane, tall white blond Americans who don't speak a lick of Spanish, are both visually and culturally distinct from the rest of the main cast, who are dark-haired and Hispanic.
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Acapulco / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Acapulco / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: After the first season finale reveal that Hector is Sleeping with the Boss, several prior scenes are replayed but with emphasis on the two in the background. Played for laughs in the second episode of season 2. As Maximo figures out that the tennis player's hair is a wig, previous scenes focusing on his hair are repeated, some even in slow motion. Parodied when Las Colinas throws a wrap party and Hector tricks Memo into watching the film's dog actor. Hector says that "Bud McKinley is a party animal". After Memo learns Bud is a dog, he flashes back to Hector emphasizing party animal, and then telling him to remember this later because it will be important.
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Acapulco / int_795ebae2	type	Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics
Acapulco / int_795ebae2	comment	Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics: The pool singers, Augusto and Adriana, are frequently singing Spanish-language covers of popular songs. Justified, as they're entertaining wealthy English-speaking tourists.
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Acapulco / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
Acapulco / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: Chad coins "hermigo" from the Spanish words hermano and amigo to refer to him and Maximo.
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Acapulco / int_88efd1f4	type	Classical Music Is Boring
Acapulco / int_88efd1f4	comment	Classical Music Is Boring: In the third episode of season 2, an investor tries to get the pool singers fired because he doesn't like that they only sing Spanish versions of English songs. He tries to have them replaced with classical musicians, but Diane points out that it's bad for business as it just puts the guests to sleep instead of making them buy drinks.
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Acapulco / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Acapulco / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: The season finale is set at the 1984-1985 New Year's Eve party at Las Colinas and accordingly involves several major changes to the status quo.
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Acapulco / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
Acapulco / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: Hector is hooking up with the resort owner Diane, which lands him a promotion to pool manager.
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Acapulco / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Acapulco / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The sixth episode of season 2 explores Diane's past and how she got to where she is at the time of the show, discussing her past a small-town girl whose shot at movie stardom was derailed by getting pregnant out of wedlock and becoming a single mother.
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Acapulco / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
Acapulco / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: In the seventh episode of season 2 the boss Diane orders her "personal assistant" Maximo to find out who leaked information about a starlet guest's age, not knowing that it was Maximo.
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Acapulco / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Acapulco / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode is named after a song.
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Acapulco / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
Acapulco / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: Chad's ex-girlfriend Kelli gets herself invited to his fiancee Julia's bachelorette party, to the latter's dismay.
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Acapulco / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Acapulco / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Different actors play Maximo and his peers in the present day and in the 80s. The eighth episode gives Don Pablo, Nora, and Lupe younger actors to show them in the 50s/60s.
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Acapulco / int_b5bd58a3	type	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
Acapulco / int_b5bd58a3	comment	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Working-class Maximo has a crush on his colleague Julia, who is dating but not 100% happy with their wealthy boss Chad. When she considers this love triangle late in the first season, she thinks that Chad might not truly get her like Maximo does, but he is sweet and rich and that counts for something.
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Acapulco / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
Acapulco / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: Maximo runs into his crush Julia while acting as The Beard for his sister's girlfriend Roberta. Memo (who doesn't know that Roberta is gay) advises Maximo to lean into it and let Julia see what she's missing by not dating him.
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Acapulco / int_bc80725e	type	Wedding Finale
Acapulco / int_bc80725e	comment	Wedding Finale: The flashbacks in the last episode of season 2 end with the wedding of Nora and Esteban. The Las Colinas crew handle the afterparty, and there is a lot of romance and sentimentality at the event.
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Acapulco / int_c10d1dcb	type	California Doubling
Acapulco / int_c10d1dcb	comment	California Doubling: In-Universe, a Hawaii-set film is filmed in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Acapulco / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Acapulco / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Julia (working-class receptionist) is dating Chad (the rich resort's owner's son). Diane isn't above exploiting her son's relationship with a member of the staff to rich patrons and investors as proof of how they've "embraced the Latin American community".
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Acapulco / int_c6355c0a	type	Celebrity Lie
Acapulco / int_c6355c0a	comment	Celebrity Lie: Played for laughs with the chatty bartender, Beto, who is introduced as a guy who has thousands of anecdotes about celebrities...some of which are true.
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Acapulco / int_d0caee40	type	Uncanny Family Resemblance
Acapulco / int_d0caee40	comment	Uncanny Family Resemblance: Actors are often recycled to show extreme family resemblance. Carolina Moreno plays both Lorena and the younger self of Lorena's aunt Lupe. Fernando Carsa plays both Memo in the 80s and Memo's present-day son "Memito".
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Acapulco / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
Acapulco / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: The eighth episode reveals that Don Pablo is a former family friend of Maximo's mother Nora who had fallen out with her after his wife (Nora's friend) left him. His interest in mentoring Maximo was partly because of this.
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Acapulco / int_d38a4a3	type	Identically Named Group
Acapulco / int_d38a4a3	comment	Identically Named Group: In the third episiode of season 2, Maximo tries to recall the names of Chad's college fraternity friends, who are all (like Chad) tall, white, and blond bros, so he just calls them all Chad.
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Acapulco / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
Acapulco / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": When asking Maximo for help proposing to Julia in Spanish; Chad says that he had always thought Spanish was mostly sticking "o"s to the end of words.
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Acapulco / int_d9baff40	type	Spexico
Acapulco / int_d9baff40	comment	Spexico: Hector, the lead pool boy at the Acapulco resort, tells Maximo that he is actually Spanish, but the gringos don't care.
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Acapulco / int_eaf3fc2a	type	Learnt English from Watching Television
Acapulco / int_eaf3fc2a	comment	Learnt English from Watching Television: It's the 1980s in Acapulco, but the Mexican employees at Las Colinas are required to speak English. Maximo tells Julia that he learned English from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. She tells him she learned it from authors like Jane Austen and the Brontës.
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Acapulco / int_edc96065	type	Mister Muffykins
Acapulco / int_edc96065	comment	Mister Muffykins: Multimillionaire Maximo owns a little chihuahua, naturally named Minimo.
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Acapulco	hasFeature	The Jeeves / int_b35fa2bb
Acapulco	hasFeature	The One That Got Away / int_b35fa2bb
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