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Porno y helado

Porno y helado (also known in English as Porn and Ice Cream) is an Argentine comedy television series created, written, and directed by Martín Piroyansky, in which two thirty-something losers and a young con artist fake a rock band that unexpectedly becomes popular¹^•². It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 11, 2022¹.

Key fact	Detail
Created by	Martín Piroyansky, who also writes, directs, and stars as Pablo²
Premise	Pablo, his friend Ramón, and the con artist Ceci invent a fake rock band; a first hit inspired by watching pornography and eating ice cream makes the lie spiral out of control²
Premiere	March 11, 2022, on Amazon Prime Video¹
Episodes	Season 1: 8 episodes; season 2: 6 episodes of about 30 minutes, released September 2024³
Main cast	Martín Piroyansky (Pablo), Nachito Saralegui (Ramón), Sofía Morandi (Ceci), with Susana Giménez as Roxana in season 1⁴
Filming	Twelve weeks of shooting in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, completed in early 2021¹
Origin	The idea dates back about 15 years, first conceived as a feature film¹

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Premise and characters

Pablo (Martín Piroyansky) is an immature 30-year-old who, together with his best friend Ramón (Nachito Saralegui), a man doing no better in life, invents a rock band. They are joined by Ceci (Sofía Morandi), a young con artist who becomes the band's manager and third member⁵^•⁶. The invented group is called Los Débiles Mentales; Pablo and Ramón create it to avoid embarrassment in front of a former secondary-school classmate, although the only thing they know how to play is a doorbell⁶.

The title refers to the Friday-night ritual the two friends share: sitting together to watch pornography and eat ice cream, in a deliberately non-sexual, naive way. Piroyansky has said this pairing was present from the beginning of the idea, and that the pair's first pop hit in the series is inspired by it⁷. The lie gradually escapes their control and forces them to become a real band, having to compose songs and play instruments, two things about which they know nothing⁸.

Production and origin

Piroyansky conceived the project about 15 years before the premiere, when he lived with a musician friend who was starting to form a band. It was originally written as a film about two losers who turn to music out of loneliness; he later decided the story worked better told episodically¹. As the years passed, the premise changed: the protagonists stopped being musicians and became thirty-somethings pretending to be musicians to scrape some attention¹. Piroyansky has described the project as rooted in his own frustration at never having become a musician⁷.

Once defined as a series, the project moved forward under the production company Navajo Films and then Amazon Prime Video, and filming concluded after twelve weeks in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in early 2021¹. The first season was produced with Amazon Studios, Navajo Films, and Salado⁴.

Susana Giménez's return. The first season featured the television host Susana Giménez as Roxana, a role that marked her return to acting after several years and that critics highlighted as a bright comic appearance⁴. Piroyansky said her participation was Amazon Prime Video's idea; the platform invited her, she agreed, and he was then consulted⁹.

Reception and seasons

The first season, released in March 2022 with little promotion, found a loyal audience in the Río de la Plata region and quickly became a cult series, which earned it a renewal¹⁰. Argentine critics received it warmly; LA NACION called it an excellent production and described it as a change for Argentine television comedy, noting that its trio of unlikable outsiders recalls the dynamic of Seinfeld¹¹.

The second season, an Amazon Original of six episodes of about 30 minutes each, premiered on Prime Video on September 20, 2024 (Rotten Tomatoes lists the episodes as aired September 19)³^•¹². It was produced by Navajo Films in collaboration with Claxson and Salado, directed by Lucas Vivo García Lagos, with Mariano Kohan and Mariano Varela as executive producers and Martina López Robol joining Piroyansky as co-writer; it was released exclusively on Prime Video in 240 countries and territories¹³. The new season follows the trio through an infiltrated fan, debts with friends, competition with younger artists, and problems of ego, and it adds Gimena Accardi, Matías Mayer, Kevsho, and Ángela Torres as guest stars³. Critics noted that its pop-culture references, including the rolinga subculture and Argentine indie bands, are pushed to the absurd, while the chemistry among the three leads remains the show's anchor⁸.

A third season entered production, with filming in Montevideo wrapping shortly before the end-of-year holidays in 2025; the season is planned to include cameos by figures such as Pepe Cibrián and Natalia Oreiro¹⁴.

Style and humor

Piroyansky has described the series as keeping an absurd, strange tone within a classical structure: each episode has a simple story with a conflict to resolve, but the path to the resolution is filled with outlandish situations¹⁰. He grew up watching American sitcoms and has said his aim is to take from foreign comedy what he likes without removing the Argentine idiosyncrasy⁷. Commentators place the show in a lineage of American-influenced comedy translated into a genuinely Rioplatense register, building on the web series and films Piroyansky made earlier in his career, such as Vóley (2015)¹⁵. The second season makes generational anxiety, aging, and the fear of being left behind one of its central themes¹⁵.

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