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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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?
