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Review: Combine Pedro Almodóvar with stop motion and you get Adult Swim's most unexpected yet perfect show by Tribune News Service

In the annals of things I could not have seen coming, none has been more unexpected than "Women Wearing Shoulder Pads," a queer Spanish-language stop-motion comedy melodrama, set in the aesthetic world of a 1980s Pedro Almodóvar film. (It arrived Sunday on Adult Swim, the home of things one doesn't see coming, and premiered the next day on HBO Max.) Though it takes place in Ecuador, its ...

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AM on August 20, 2025

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