It doesn't seem to be meant to be set in Argentina specifically - someone on these forums who was from S America pointed out there's no country specific slang, dialect or references, so the big city is any South American metropolis - but it seems to me also that it resonates with the violent and tragic past of Argentina, or of Latin America more generally. The killer strikes with an omnipotence and omniscience that's very like what it might have seemed like if you were grabbed by the gendarms or the military police after a coup and pulled off to some hidden location - compare with "Buenos Aires 1977", which gives a convincing description of that kind of thing. And with the story happening from out of revenge in some sense five years after a hostage drama (haven't watched the entire first season yet), there is some allusion to how much of this is still too sensitive to talk about openly in many parts of South America, and that there hasn't been much of a judicial aftermath. It's safe to say that many people in Argentina, not to mention Chile, have zero trust in the police, or in public institutions.
At the audition I had to karaoke to "Smoke On The Water". I was 45. A very lonely experience.
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