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División Palermo

División Palermo is an Argentine comedy series for Netflix created, directed by, and starring Santiago Korovsky. It follows an inclusive urban guard (Guardia Urbana) assembled in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires as a marketing operation to improve the image of the security forces, whose members come from various minority groups and stumble into real crime.¹^•² The first season premiered on 17 February 2023, and a second and final season premiered globally on 17 July 2025.³^•⁴

Key fact	Detail
Format	Argentine comedy series, two seasons, streaming on Netflix; genre listed as comedy and crime²^•⁵
Season 1	Premiered 17 February 2023; eight episodes of less than half an hour each³^•⁶
Season 2	Final season, premiered globally 17 July 2025; six episodes⁴^•⁵
Creator	Santiago Korovsky (Buenos Aires, 1985), who writes, directs, and plays Felipe Rozenfeld; produced by K&S Films⁴^•⁷
Main cast	Santiago Korovsky, Daniel Hendler, and Pilar Gamboa, with Martín Garabal, Charo López, Hernán Cuevas, and Facundo Bogarín²^•⁴
Awards	International Emmy for Best Comedy (2024); seven Cóndor de Plata awards including Best Comedy Series; a Premio Sur for Best Fiction Series and a Platino award for Best Actor in a Series⁴
Audience	Season 1 spent 5 weeks in Netflix's Top 10 series chart in Argentina⁴

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Premise and tone

The series centers on Felipe Rozenfeld, played by Korovsky, who joins an urban guard squadron made up of people from different minority groups, including a woman who uses a wheelchair, a man of short stature, a blind man, and a trans woman. The unit is created as a public-relations exercise for a security apparatus it is meant to cosmetically improve, and its members are unarmed civilians who can issue citations but little else.²^•⁶^•⁸

The comedy works two directions at once. It mocks the clumsy inclusiveness of the officials who created the unit, and it gives its minority characters desires, contradictions, and flaws rather than victim roles; Korovsky has described the target as "those of us who want to be inclusive and don't manage it."⁹ The show also carries a political satire: the guard is the project of Security Minister Carolina Pozzo, played by Valeria Lois, and the second season adds intelligence-service operatives and scheming electoral candidates played by Alejandra Flechner, Guillermo Arengo, Esteban Bigliardi, and others.¹⁰^•¹¹

Korovsky has said the humor is deliberately uncomfortable, combining jokes at the limits of political correctness with real violence; he has cited comparisons to Tarantino-like bloodshed and noted that some critics objected to mixing humor and violence.⁹ Jokes were checked with advisers, including a wheelchair user who collaborated on Pilar Gamboa's role, and actors with disabilities joined the cast, including Leandro Gil, an actor without arms, and Iván Davidovich, who has cerebral palsy, in the second season.⁹

Origin

Korovsky had been posting comedy sketches on YouTube under the title Algo de Carlos and won a contest from the INCAA, Argentina's national film institute, to produce a teaser for a web series, which became the seed of División Palermo. The premise exploits the contrast between the common image of a security force and the unorthodox team assembled for it, and draws in part on the real civil urban guard created in the City of Buenos Aires in 2004 under Aníbal Ibarra and dissolved in 2008 under Mauricio Macri; members of those real guards were unarmed civilians who reported the bullying of police officers.⁶

Second season

The second season, announced as the last, was filmed after a 2024 teaser confirmed production and premiered on 17 July 2025. Its plot moves into an electoral campaign: the Guardia Urbana expands, and intelligence services recruit Felipe to investigate a criminal band operating out of a specialty coffee shop, the Cuero Café. Returning cast members include Daniel Hendler, Pilar Gamboa, Martín Garabal, Charo López, Hernán Cuevas, and Facundo Bogarín, joined by Juan Minujín, Alejandra Flechner, Esteban Bigliardi, Inés Efron, Guillermo Arengo, and Martín Piroyansky.⁴^•¹² Korovsky linked the season's shift, in which the guard is now armed, to a changed political climate: "certain questions of the woke agenda are no longer in fashion."⁹

Reception

The first season became a phenomenon in Argentina, entering the country's Netflix Top 10 for five weeks, and drew warm responses from viewers in Spain, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Chile, and Mexico, according to Korovsky.⁴^•⁶ Critics compared its office comedy with a police edge to The Office and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and praised its sustained narrative arc across episodes rather than a self-contained situation per episode.¹⁰ At the 52nd International Emmy Awards the series won Best Comedy, and it also took seven Cóndor de Plata awards, including Best Comedy Series, Best Direction, Best Actor in a Comedy, and Best Original Screenplay, along with a Premio Sur for Best Fiction Series and a Platino award for Best Actor in a Series.⁴ Academic commentary has read the series as exposing common prejudices and stereotypes about disability rather than simply mocking disabled people.¹³

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Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Sitcom and comedy series › Comedy series outside the US and UK › Premiered 2022 to 2026

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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