TV series

A Rooster for Esculapio

2017–2018 · 2 seasons

A slow, gritty plunge into a stranger's underworld, watching a naive outsider get swallowed by a city that offers him nothing.

Overview: A young working-class man comes from Misiones (an Argentinian province) to Buenos Aires, with a fighting rooster, looking for his brother, and gets involved with low life characters, who introduce him to a world of crime.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Crime, isolation, family, survival
Content: Strong violence and language. Mild gore and sexual content.
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Full breakdown

Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: crime
isolation
family
survival
corruption
Places: big city
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild