‘Women Wearing Shoulder Pads’ Trailer Transports Adult Swim to ’80s Ecuador

Adult swim has revealed the offiicial trailer to its new woman-led, Spanish-language, stop-motion animated quarter-hour comedy, Women Wearing Shoulder Pads. The ambitious new series will premiere globally on Sunday, August 17 at midnight ET/PT.

Created by Gonzalo Cordova (Tuca & Bertie, Adam Ruins Everything) and produced in partnership with Mexico City-based studio Cinema Fantasma (Frankelda’s Book of Spooks), the series follows Marioneta, a proud, wealthy Spaniard living in 1980s Quito, Ecuador. There she encounters a diverse group of eccentric and ambitious women navigating the complicated worlds of love, family and cuys.

Featuring an all-woman cast, Women Wearing Shoulder Pads is produced entirely in Spanish with English subtitles.