Luciano Mellera: Infantiloide

He was still borrowing his girlfriend's Netflix password.

latestnetflix.com's take is that Three weeks before Infantiloide dropped, Luciano Mellera sat with El Dia in La Plata and admitted he wanted to watch his own special on a television, on an account that was actually his.He was still on hers. Netflix put the hour up on 6 July 2018. Runtime 66 minutes. TV-14. Jan Suter and Raul Campos directed. Mellera wrote it. The logline is childhood, impersonations, daily life. The gossip is how tightly Netflix packed that year, and how tightly he packed the crowd work.,,

He had left advertising for this. El Dia has him trained first with Fernando Sanjiao, then with Martin Pugliese, bored of the office, living off 9-to-6 as free time with his girlfriend and a dog named Casimira. In 2016 he and Lucas Lauriente filled Luna Park, the first time Argentine stand-up occupied a stadium. Wikipedia and the venue still list that date as the genre's jump. He told El Dia the celebration belonged to stand-up, not to the two of them, even if nobody was taking the honor back. "When humor does not underestimate the audience, extraordinary things happen." He likes the line about thinking what nobody has thought about what everyone already sees.,

Campos, a Mexican director, has more than twenty Netflix comedy specials on his IMDb across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. Suter is on the same assembly line. Americas Quarterly reported in January 2018 that the streamer planned at least fifteen Spanish-language specials that year, up from four in 2016 and eight in 2017. Mellera's hour landed in the same summer as Lauriente's Todo lo que seria, also Campos and Suter, also Argentina. Netflix was turning out Spanish stand-up the way it turned out English hours, fast and branded. Infantiloide is the Argentine childhood one.,,

The set itself is the closed version of the act he later got famous for. Years after the premiere he told Infobae that in the Netflix special he was already asking the room questions, but in a fairly controlled interaction, and that he started missing the vertigo of no safety net. Forbes heard the same confession in 2024. Closed prompts. Nice step. Then the copyright wall. He said he wanted the next special to be his because Netflix and Comedy Central both blocked him from clipping the work onto social networks. The hour that opened the homepage also locked the clips.,

That is the aftertaste. In 2018 the special was proof that a Buenos Aires observer who started in 2008 could sit next to the Mexican names on the same homepage. He had already done TEDx Rio de la Plata in front of ten thousand people, more than once, and three Comedy Central specials. After Infantiloide he kept the childhood bit as a title and moved the real act into open crowd work, the Lucho con la gente clips, the Aislados podcast with Lauriente and Nanutria, and an HBO series. In 2025 the Movistar Arena billed him as the first comedian to play his unipersonal there, two functions, 11,500 people, sold out in hours. The Netflix hour is the closed-prompt version of that comic.,,