División Palermo

Produced by K&S Films and distributed by Netflix, the series centers around a group of people who represent social minorities and are hired to form a neighbourhood protection guard.

The series criticizes tokenism in organizations through a screenplay that resignifies offensive humor to place judgment on companies and governments that discriminate against minorities.

[2] A marketing campaign to clean up the image of the metropolitan police security forces creates a division of the Urban Guard composed of minorities.

[5] Alejandro Modarelli, from Página/12, says that División Palermo poses ‘a social and cultural debate on freedom of speech’ in whose plot the Urban Guard is ‘made up of freaks hired in the neoliberal city as cosmetic instruments of the actual repressive policies’.

The writer points out the intention of reflecting ‘the astuteness of the right wing politicians when they claim to be liberal, in its eagerness to hide difference under an export carpet or to instrument it, uncritically, as objects of consumption in the cultural markets’.