# Diario de un gigoló
**Diario de un gigoló** (English title: *Diary of a Gigolo*) is a Spanish-language erotic thriller television series released worldwide on Netflix on 7 September 2022, consisting of a single season of 10 episodes.[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) Created by the Argentine screenwriter, director, and producer Sebastián Ortega, who wrote it with Silvina Frejdkes and Alejandro Quesada, it stars the Spanish actor Jesús Castro as Emanuel, a male escort whose life unravels when he falls in love with the daughter of one of his clients.[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Premiere | 7 September 2022, worldwide on Netflix[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) |
| Format | One season, 10 episodes, roughly 48 to 60 minutes each[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) • [2](https://www.justwatch.com/es/serie/diario-de-un-gigolo) |
| Creator | Sebastián Ortega, with co-writers Silvina Frejdkes and Alejandro Quesada[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) |
| Production | Telemundo and Underground Contenidos; distributed by Netflix[3](https://www.cinelodeon.com/2022/09/diario-de-un-gigolo-creador-ambrosio.html) |
| Filming | Buenos Aires, Argentina, September to 10 December 2021[4](https://www.imdb.com/es/title/tt16481820/locations/) |
| Main cast | Jesús Castro (Emanuel), Victoria White (Julia), Fabiola Campomanes (Ana), Adriana Barraza (Minou), Francisco Denis (Victor)[5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/) |
| Genre and rating | Drama, erotica, thriller; not recommended for viewers under 16[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
The story centers on Emanuel, an escort who lives in luxury and comfort in exchange for keeping fit and selling his company to whoever pays best. Behind the surface, his history is tragic: a childhood marked by violence, abandonment, and poverty. Minou, a businesswoman, found him on the streets, gave him shelter and protection, and turned him into a gigolo, leaving Emanuel with a sense of debt to her.[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/)
One of Emanuel's regular clients, Ana, breaks from routine by asking him to seduce her daughter Julia, a young woman with serious self-esteem problems, so that Julia will recover her confidence. Emanuel accepts, but as he grows close to Julia the attraction becomes more real and authentic than anything he has experienced before, breaking the basic rule of his profession: not to fall in love with clients. Ana, jealous of her own daughter over a relationship she herself set in motion, threatens to tell Julia the whole truth, forcing Emanuel to weigh the woman he loves against his work.[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) • [5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/)
The series is framed as a retrospective story told from a police interrogation: in the opening episode, Emanuel is arrested and questioned, and begins explaining the sequence of events that may have led to a woman being murdered in his house. Detectives investigating the murder gradually connect the dots between their suspects across the season.[6](https://www.netflix.com/title/81437215) A subplot casts Ana's second husband, Victor, an unscrupulous figure, as a suspect; he also runs a laboratory that marketed a drug with lethal side effects.[7](https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/series-de-tv/netflix-diario-de-un-gigolo-es-una-telenovela-policial-de-muy-bajas-calorias-nid26092022/)
### Cast and characters
- **Jesús Castro** as Emanuel Morillo, the escort at the center of the story[5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/)
- **Victoria White** as Julia, Ana's daughter[5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/)
- **Fabiola Campomanes** as Ana, a wealthy married client[5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/)
- **Adriana Barraza** as Minou, the businesswoman who rescued and trained Emanuel[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/)
- **Francisco Denis** as Victor, Ana's second husband[5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/)
- **Alosian Vivancos** as Abel[3](https://www.cinelodeon.com/2022/09/diario-de-un-gigolo-creador-ambrosio.html)
In interviews, Castro and the actor Diego Alfonso, who plays a noir-style detective, described a deliberately unconventional treatment: the gigolo is a sensitive, complex character rather than a classic escort archetype, and the story presents a female-led world in which women hire men in a consensual commercial arrangement.[10](https://www.gq.com.mx/entretenimiento/articulo/diario-de-un-gigolo-serie-entrevista-con-jesus-castro-y-diego-alfonso)
## Production
The project came from Sebastián Ortega, whose ideas the Infobae interview describes as having circulated in his head for a long time before development began with the production company Underground more than two years before the 2021 interview. Marcos Santana, president of NBC Universal Telemundo Global Studios, which oversees Underground, said the series was the company's first international production made in Argentina, with a cast drawn from Spain, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, and Colombia. He stated that ten episodes would be filmed partly at the Perito Moreno glacier and the Iguazú Falls, and that the lead role would go to a Spanish artist. The story was described as one of action, intrigue, and love, a thriller whose settings and locations follow those places.[8](https://www.infobae.com/teleshow/2021/09/19/marcos-santana-estamos-viviendo-el-primer-gran-cambio-de-la-television-desde-la-aparicion-del-control-remoto/)
Filming took place in Buenos Aires between September and 10 December 2021.[4](https://www.imdb.com/es/title/tt16481820/locations/) The production companies were [Telemundo](https://www.edgepedia.org/telemundo) and Underground Contenidos, with Netflix handling distribution.[3](https://www.cinelodeon.com/2022/09/diario-de-un-gigolo-creador-ambrosio.html) Directors were Valeria Ambrosio, Mariano Ardanaza, and Martín Fisner, with photography by Sergio Dotta and music by Diego Monk.[7](https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/series-de-tv/netflix-diario-de-un-gigolo-es-una-telenovela-policial-de-muy-bajas-calorias-nid26092022/)
Sources differ on how to attribute the series nationally. FormulaTV lists it as a series produced in Mexico with Mexican country designation,[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) SensaCine lists its nationality as Argentine,[5](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/) and Infobae describes it as an original of Mexico with Argentine production.[9](https://www.infobae.com/que-puedo-ver/2022/09/20/todos-los-detalles-de-diario-de-un-gigolo-la-serie-con-produccion-argentina-que-triunfa-en-netflix/)
## Reception
Viewer ratings diverged sharply by platform: the Spanish site Filmaffinity reported a mean of 3.6 from 51 votes while IMDb reported 6.6 from 235 users, and FormulaTV lists 6.2.[3](https://www.cinelodeon.com/2022/09/diario-de-un-gigolo-creador-ambrosio.html) • [1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/) In Brazil, the series spent weeks in Netflix's TOP 10 and became the most-watched title among subscribers for a period, though the critic Gabriel Perline called it a poor production with a disorganized script and little of the sensuality its promotional framing promised.[11](https://gente.ig.com.br/colunas/gabriel-perline/2022-09-25/diario-de-um-gigolo--pessima-serie-e-click-bait-porno-da-netflix.html.ampstories) The Argentine newspaper La Nación gave a regular (mediocre) verdict, comparing its structure to pocket crime novels: a seductive suspect, a perverse husband, an innocent daughter, confused investigators, and a crime that places everyone under suspicion, with confusions added each episode to conceal the murderer until the final stretch.[7](https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/series-de-tv/netflix-diario-de-un-gigolo-es-una-telenovela-policial-de-muy-bajas-calorias-nid26092022/) Netflix's own description sums up the premise: "A male escort's life begins to unravel when he gets involved in a client's family affairs and breaks the cardinal rule of his work: Don't fall in love."[6](https://www.netflix.com/title/81437215)
## References
1. [Diario de un gigoló, Ficha de la serie, FormulaTV](https://www.formulatv.com/series/diario-de-un-gigolo/)
2. [Diario de un Gigoló, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/es/serie/diario-de-un-gigolo)
3. [Diario de un Gigoló. Creador: Ambrosio Ortega. Ficha de identificación y crítica, Cinelodeon](https://www.cinelodeon.com/2022/09/diario-de-un-gigolo-creador-ambrosio.html)
4. [Diario de un Gigoló (2022), Filmación y producción, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/es/title/tt16481820/locations/)
5. [Diario de un gigoló, Serie 2022, SensaCine](https://www.sensacine.com/series/serie-32659/)
6. [Diario de un Gigoló, Netflix (Diary of a Gigolo)](https://www.netflix.com/title/81437215)
7. [Netflix: Diario de un gigoló es una telenovela policial de muy bajas calorías, La Nación](https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/series-de-tv/netflix-diario-de-un-gigolo-es-una-telenovela-policial-de-muy-bajas-calorias-nid26092022/)
8. [Marcos Santana: "Estamos viviendo el primer gran cambio de la televisión desde la aparición del control remoto", Infobae](https://www.infobae.com/teleshow/2021/09/19/marcos-santana-estamos-viviendo-el-primer-gran-cambio-de-la-television-desde-la-aparicion-del-control-remoto/)
9. [Todos los detalles de "Diario de un gigoló", la serie con producción argentina que triunfa en Netflix, Infobae](https://www.infobae.com/que-puedo-ver/2022/09/20/todos-los-detalles-de-diario-de-un-gigolo-la-serie-con-produccion-argentina-que-triunfa-en-netflix/)
10. [Diario de un Gigoló, la serie que huye de los clichés, GQ México](https://www.gq.com.mx/entretenimiento/articulo/diario-de-un-gigolo-serie-entrevista-con-jesus-castro-y-diego-alfonso)
11. [Diário de Um Gigolô: Péssima série é click bait pornô da Netflix e TOP10 no Brasil, iG](https://gente.ig.com.br/colunas/gabriel-perline/2022-09-25/diario-de-um-gigolo--pessima-serie-e-click-bait-porno-da-netflix.html.ampstories)
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