‘The Resort’ Creator Andy Siara on Why the Show Uses Nokia Flip Phones, But ‘No Guns, No Cartels’
variety.comSelome Hailu “The Resort” opens with the beachy beat of David Byrne and Brian Eno’s “Strange Overtones,” — strange indeed, as the song plays under an epigraph with something slightly wrong.Two quotes wipe across the screen.
First: “The pursuit to capture your past is a waste of time. The past lives in the past and is therefore non-existent in the present.
Time travel has not been invented.” These words are credited to Illán Iberra’s 1978 book “El Espejo,” or “The Mirror” in English.
Next, a retrraction: in 1993’s “La Desilución del Tiempo” (“The Disappointment of Time”), Iberra writes, “I made many idiotic and pretentious statements in my youth.”Episode 1 of the Peacock adventure comedy is titled “The Disappointment of Time,” and at first, it seems that creator/showrunner Andy Siara (“Palm Springs”) is hoping to position the ideas of “The Resort” in conversation with Iberra’s work.
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