(Special Order)
Comedy
series with forty 5-minute long episodes.
Orden
especial is a parody of an American cop series, but, if in
these series it is the Police Commissioner who orders the arrest of
the criminal, in Orden Especial it is the Abbot, a member of a 20th
century religious order who doles out justice, as he understands it,
using far less orthodox methods than those used by the Very Holy Inquisition.
From a computer centre installed in
a monastery and equipped with highly sophisticated audio-visual equipment,
it is possible to detect and follow those individuals who, though behaving
in ways which cannot be considered illicit by any means, are nevertheless
considered to be a public nuisance
Once
the guilt of these characters is considered proven, the Abbot, with
a cry of "¡purgandis populus!", orders his monks to
determinedly pursue the boring, the hysterical, the opulent, the sports
journalists, the Opera divas, the know-it-alls, the show-offs, the fascists...
in order to detain them in ‘Holy Office Psychiatric’, a
kind of hospital where they will be submitted to very harsh forms of
therapy which will allow them to be reintroduced into society. Some
will emerge to change their profession, but others will not survive
the therapy.
In this way, and at a hectic pace, a puritan is redirected towards ‘X’
rated cinema, a dadaist painting ends up in the rubbish, a group of
designers are submitted to the therapy of public humiliation in front
of their own creation, a great footballer is sacked and sold, retail,
in a shop.