Zoe Walker’s brother Axel was found under a Spanish almond orchard twenty years after vanishing from the island’s 90s rave scene. In the present, she abandons her husband and step-daughter to pick at scabs the police never touched, and each revelation pushes her deeper into the Calafat crime clan’s champagne-popping, ketamine-snorting playground. The plot ricochets between two timelines: Axel’s final summer as a cockney DJ spinning vinyl for the super-rich, and Zoe’s increasingly reckless hunt for the killer among the same champagne-sprayed villas and abandoned fincas.
Creator Álex Pina keeps the neon-strobed excess of Money Heist but swaps vaults for villa orgies, feeding Netflix’s algorithm a cocktail of sunburned noir and Balearic club beats. The dialogue flips between English and Spanish without subtitles on screen, trusting viewers to feel the menace when Nuno Lopes’s henchman Boxer growls “te estás metiendo en camisa de once varas” while polishing his knuckleduster. Tom Holkenborg’s score layers 303 squelches over spaghetti-western twang, so even a sunrise looks like a threat.
The ten-episode run was shot entirely on location, moving from Ibiza Town’s Dalt Vila cobbles to the salt flats of Formentera, then doubling a Mallorca quarry for the desert rave where Axel’s body was dumped. Netflix released the lot on 15 May 2020, cancelled in August, leaving the cliff-hanger of Zoe coked-up and blood-spattered on a cliff road as her last scene.
Production Details
Netflix / 1 Season / 10 Episodes / 2020
Created by: Álex Pina
Showrunner(s): Álex Pina, Cristina López Ferraz, Andy Harries
Writer(s): Álex Pina, Ed Wethered, David Barrocal
Producer(s): Chris Croucher, Mark Kinsella
Cinematography: Kieran McGuigan, Juan Miguel Azpiroz
Music: Tom Holkenborg
Main Cast
Laura Haddock as Zoe Walker
Nuno Lopes as Boxer / Duarte Silva
Marta Milans as Kika Calafat
Daniel Mays as Marcus
Juan Diego Botto as Oriol Calafat
Pedro Casablanc as Andreu Calafat
Belén López as Conchita Calafat
Tom Rhys Harries as Axel Collins
Jonny Green as Young David
Kassius Nelson as Young Anna
Ceallach Spellman as Young Marcus
Francis Magee as Clint Collins
