Alan Saldaña: Locked Up

Netflix translated the jail title. The hour is about marriage.

The English card says Locked Up. The Spanish one says Encarcelado. Then the synopsis undercuts both. Mexican comedian Alan Saldaña is back, latestnetflix.com argues, poking fun at himself and handing out advice on how to stay married and how to be parents. Forty-nine minutes. TV-MA. Directed by Alex Diaz. Netflix date 3 June 2021.,,

The first Mexican hour, then a three-year wait.

Time Out Mexico still files him as the first Mexican standup comic to record a Netflix special. That first one was Mi vida de pobre, the 2017 set about exit-row seats and maxed credit cards. He started in Monterrey, telling jokes on city buses and in public plazas, then Comedy Central Presenta and a Vive Latino slot in front of a festival crowd. In July 2018 he told Time Out he wanted another special on Netflix, HBO, or Comedy Central, and that a Latin America and U.S. Tour was already moving. The same winter, Vanguardia in Saltillo printed him saying he already had a Netflix contract and was waiting on a green light to plan the next hour. Locked Up showed up three years later.,,

SensaCine's Mexican page treats Encarcelado as the follow-up that looks at twenty years of work, new social habits, and how his life changed after the poor-life hour. Netflix still shelves the two specials next to each other. Original language Spanish. The U.S. Page lists English, Spanish, French, and Chinese subtitles, a lot of translation for a 49-minute club set that Netflix itself tags raunchy. IMDb logs Mexico as country of origin and Diaz as director. TMDB still has almost no crew beyond Saldaña.,,,

English-language rooms did not throw a parade.

IMDb sits at 4.8 from about forty votes. Rotten Tomatoes has no Tomatometer and no audience meter. Leisurebyte's Archi Sengupta, writing on drop day, called it a mixed bag with a few relatable sketches, then "offensive and confusing," and scored it 2.5. The review said you sometimes laugh at how ridiculous he is on stage more than at the jokes, and that the language barrier did some of the damage. That is a fair warning, not a scandal.,,

The gossip was the wait. A Monterrey bus comic landed the first Mexican Netflix hour, told local papers a second one was coming, and then the second hour arrived under a jail title about staying married. A 33-second trailer still sits on YouTube if you want the cadence before the marriage jokes.,