Matadero


Matadero is a Spanish black comedy–crime drama limited television series created by Daniel Martín Sáez de Parayuelo and produced by Diagonal TV for Atresmedia. It premiered on Antena 3 on January 9, 2019 and ended on March 13, 2019

Premise

In the small Castilian-Leonese town of Torrecillas, meat-processing businessman Francisco imports cheap and low-quality pigs from Portugal, some of which are used to smuggle cocaine. The veterinarian in his slaughterhouse is his brother-in-law Alfonso, a weak-willed man who is fed up of being blackmailed to look the other way and certify animals of dubious quality.
When Francisco's lover Coral organises the theft of the latest consignment of drug-smuggling pigs, she sets in motion a violent series of events. This entangles Pascual and Teo, a Murcian-Galician hitman duo, Vasco, a vengeful Portuguese gangster, Maria, Francisco's niece and a member of the Guardia Civil - and above all, Almudena, Francisco's wife, along with the hapless Alfonso.
Elsewhere, Alfonso's wife María José gets promoted in her sales company, under the watchful eye of her smarmy boss, Fermín, and Salvador, a local pig farmer and rival of Francisco's, seeks to win the heart of Almudena, the woman whom he has always loved,

Cast

Season 1 (2019)