Torrente for President

3/20/2026

**The danger of cynicism** The existence of “Torrente for President” manifests itself as a symptom of creative exhaustion, confusing transgression with anachronism. In a political landscape like Spain's, where polarization is already a caricature in itself, Santiago Segura's character has lost its capacity as a paradigm of the critique, becoming instead a redundant and whitewashing echo. While the strength of the first Torrente lay in its ability to unsettle a society aspiring to European modernity, revealing the sediment of a Spain that refused to disappear, today, that antiquated Spain doesn't hide in dark alleys or seedy bars, but has become professionalized on social media, in the mainstream media, and, of course, within the very institutions of the State. Attempting to parody