# Cultura en Decadencia (2012)

> A six-episode Spanish-language satirical series that tests everyday cultural practices against the standard of plain logic and reason.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/55799

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: comedy, reality
- Network: YouTube
- TMDB rating: 8.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203700/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Tone: satirical, serious, provocative, cerebral, irreverent, detached

## Synopsis

Cultura en Decadencia (2012-2013) is a Spanish-language satirical web series broadcast on YouTube, comprising a single season of six episodes. Rather than following a conventional cast of characters, it presents a sequence of pointed segments that take apart everyday assumptions about politics, economics, education, security, religion, vanity, media, labor and technology. Its engine is a single proposition: nothing is sacred except a detached standard of fundamental logic and reason, and each episode measures a cherished social practice against that standard to see whether it survives. The result is a format closer to an essay on video than to a story, with each installment pressing the viewer to step outside the habits of ordinary life and look at familiar institutions without inherited bias. The tone is satirical yet serious, mixing irony with earnest argument and a cool, deliberate pace. Its closest kin are the topical critiques of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and the sketch-driven irreverence of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and viewers drawn to provocative reasoning about the modern world will find resonance here. The show is contemporary in its concerns and stands as a compact, single-season provocation rather than a serialized drama.

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