Two years ago Spain gave us two magnificent epic TV series, Cathedral of the Sea and The Plague, and the second one is now finally getting its second
The new season starts November 15th at Movistar+
season. The new run of THE PLAGUE (La Peste) will start airing November 15th on Movistar, and if I'm not mistaken the first season aired both on BBC and Amazon, so I'm sure the new one will be distributed around the world as well set in the 16th century Seville after an outbreak of the bubonic plague. The new season will also have special airing tomorrow at this year's Mipcom in Cannes.
The New Season
kicks off five years after the last great epidemic of plague
in Spain. The plague now in the past, Seville remains the economic and
cultural capital of the
The new season will visit Mipcom tomorrow at Cannes
western world, maintaining its trade monopoly
with the Indies; its wealth and influence are only moving one way: Up.
However, the same is true for the city’s population. As the number of
people in the city and its hinterlands hits historical highs, the
government is struggling to feed and provide public services for its
people. Confronting huge social inequality, public discontent fuels
organized crime. One mafia, the Garduña, rules the streets, taking
advantage of the influx of local wealth and the inability of politicians
to police the city. In the New World’s Tierra del Fuego, series
protagonist Mateo (Pablo Molinero), his faith restored in humanity
The first season was expensive with 1,5 million euro budget per episode
by a community he encounters there, receives a letter from friend Valerio (Sergio Castellanos), under death threat from Seville’s new mob bosses. Once returned to Seville he tries to help Teresa (Patricia Lopez Arnais),
the extraordinary feminist painter, to rescue female prostitutes
enslaved in
The
posters show the hand of la Garduna, Sevillian mafia! They are also
adorned with symbolic elements such as pens, cards, keys or flowers. And
the backgrounds are from the paintings of da Vinci, Rafael, Caravagio
Seville’s shanty slums, from the mob’s maws.
Meanwhile, having helped crush a rising in Aragon, Pontecorvo, a young
ambitious soldier is appointed Capitán General of Andalusia, to deal
with the mob. But how far can one man turn back the tide of history?
Our Italian spies over at Costumical World have alerted us recently on two historical series that will air during newly started 2018 at Spanish television. Now, I know you probably won't be able to watch them unless you live somewhere in Europe and your national television buys it for broadcasting, but you can still enjoy the sets, costumes and period atmosphere in these photos and trailers!
'CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA' One of the more ambitious ones is definitely the small screen mini
series adaptation of CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA (La Catedral del Mar) from
Spanish channel Antena 3 based on the super popular historical novel by
Spanish writer Ildefonso Falcones which has been sold in millions of
copies in more than 40 countries around the world. The story of the book
and the eight episode series takes place in the 14th century Barcelona
at the height of the Inquisition era, with the construction of Santa
Maria del Mar serving as background to the story of the main character
Arnau Estanyol (Aitor Luna), the son of a fugitive serf who obtains
freedom and eventually achieves a high status. Revenge, love and
treachery intersect in a fascinating story that has a medieval Barcelona
as background in a historical period marked by religious intolerance
and social segregation. Daniel Grao, Silvia Abascal and Andrea Duro also
star in the historical drama which used more than 150 actors, hundreds
of crew members and around 4,000 extras. The production also involved
more than 200 animals including horses and dogs.
'THE PLAGUE'
WRETCHED RATS & OTHER PESTS
The Plague starts next week in Spain
Now, if you are currently eating your dindins I must warn you that the photos from the next one might ruin it a bit! Another epic series to premier sometime this year in Spain is THE PLAGUE (La Peste) set two centuries after the previously mentioned one with a little less joyful topic.
16TH CENT- URY SEVILLE Believe it or not, the Inquisition and religious intolerance weren't
the only pests that Spain had to suffer throughout its history. There
was also the real pest: rats carrying plague! The six episode saga from
Moviestar +
is set in Seville, 16th century. During a terrible plague epidemic, the
corpses of several murdered people are found, as an omen of the end of
the world. Seville was one of the main cities of the Western world.
Known as the Great Babylon, it was home to people of all races, where
fifty different languages were spoken, and all the gold from America
arrived into its port. It was one of the smelliest, most beautiful
cities in the world, and the setting for this unique, character- driven
thriller. Pablo Molinero and Paco León lead the cast of the six episode
series which starts airing January 12th!
