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The series industry in Spain continues unstoppable.

There are more and more national productions that manage to attract the attention of an increasingly large audience in the international market.

Alpha Males (Netflix)

After completing the filming of the twelfth season of

La que se avecina

, and given the impossibility of resuming the third season of

El pueblo

por el coronavirus, the brothers

Alberto and Laura Caballero

, together with their screenwriters

Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor

and

Daniel Deorador

, took advantage of the moment to develop ideas for new projects.

From there arose this fiction centered on four 40-year-old men (

Fernando Gil, Raúl Tejón, Gorka Otxoa

and

Fele Martínez

) who see how their privileges for being men are disappearing with social changes.

A complete success.

Limitless (Amazon Prime Video)

Simon West

, director of

Con Air

,

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

and

Los mercenarios 2

, is in charge of this expensive production in which

Rodrigo Santoro

and

Álvaro Morte

play

Fernando de Magallanes

and

Juan Sebastián Elcano

.

Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Pepón Nieto

and

Adrián Lastra

join a cast that narrates one of the greatest feats in history: that of the 239 sailors who left Seville in 1519 in search of a new route to the

Islands of the spices

and completed (those who survived) around the world.

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Entrevías (Netflix)

Tirso Abantos (

José Coronado

), is a former soldier from the Bosnian war, lonely and not very affectionate, who runs a neighborhood hardware store and is forced to take care of his granddaughter Irene (

Nona Sobo

), a young rebel who He is not used to surrounding himself with good people.

Produced by Mediaset and premiered on Telecinco with notable audience figures, its move to Netflix has been equally satisfactory thanks to a plot that does not take a breather and offers multiple layers of reading.

Elite (Netflix)

With the seventh season already announced, the fiction created by

Carlos Montero

and

Darío Madrona

hardly cares about the lukewarm criticism that it usually receives.

Spectators devour what happens in the life of a group of students from the exclusive

Las Encinas

private school .

Flashbacks

,

flashforwards

, deaths and sex, a lot of sex, mark a production that has become a phenomenon among adolescents.

What's Coming (Amazon Prime Video)

Created by the brothers

Alberto and Laura Caballero

and

Daniel Deorador

, who repeat on this list, the spiritual heiress of

Aquí no ha quien viva

triumphs on Telecinco and triumphs on

streaming

.

The life of the peculiar residents of the Mirador de Montepinar residential complex has been making viewers laugh since 2007.

Characters like Amador (

Pablo Chiapella

) and Antonio Recio (

Jordi Sánchez

) have gone down in television history, as have many of their phrases, such as "Do you want salami?"

or "Mariscos Recio, the sea at the best price!".

Paquita Salas (Netflix)

Scriptwriters and directors

Javier Ambrossi

and

Javier Calvo

rose to fame with Spain's most famous acting representative, Paquita Salas (

Brays Efe

).

Fiction started the Flooxer platform and became established on Netflix thanks to the expertise of some creators who never lose focus: the main objective, apart from presenting impossible cameos, is to entertain, even if it scratches little in the life of Paquita and her inseparable assistant Magüi (

Belén Cuesta

), an admirable complexity is discovered.

The paper house (Netflix)


Even

Madonna

declares herself a follower of the most international Spanish production in history, as

Úrsula Corberó

recounts in programs such as

Jimmy Fallon

's

late night

.

The creation by

Álex Pina

, inspired by the mythical bank robber

Willie Sutton

, has turned red work overalls,

Dalí

's mask and the Italian anti-fascist song

Bella ciao

into modern icons .

In total there are 41 episodes spread over five seasons.

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