Published May 5, 2026, 5:00 p.m. ET Note: Gerardo Naranjo’s Son-in-Law (now streaming on Netflix) is not a remake of the 1993 Pauly Shore yukfest . No, it’s a Mexican satire about political corruption in which Adrian Vazquez plays an absurdist character who resists easy definition. And it isn’t an easy watch – but sometimes that can be rewarding, right? SON-IN-LAW : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?  The Gist: It all starts in prison. The narrative, at least. It actually starts in 2019, when we see Jose Sanchez (Vazquez) planting a gun in the hand of a man who’s rather quickly bleeding out inside a car, having been executed by about 1,000 bullets. Then again, maybe it all started in 1985, when Jose was an idiot teenager in San Diego who tries to buy one single little ecstasy pill from a dealer, gets talked into selling a variety of illicit wares at a party, then gets nothing for them when the girl he likes passes the drugs out to all her friends thinking Jose brought them for that reason.…