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Love You to Death

Love You to Death (Spanish: A muerte) is a Spanish-language romantic comedy television series created and directed by Dani de la Orden, in which a cautious man diagnosed with heart cancer reconnects with a free-spirited childhood friend who has just learned she is pregnant. Apple TV+ acquired the seven-episode series globally from Atresmedia TV and premiered it on February 5, 2025, releasing the first two episodes that day and one new episode each Wednesday through March 12.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original title	A muerte; international title Love You to Death¹
Format	Seven episodes, roughly 35 minutes each; comedy, drama, romance²^•³
Premiere	February 5, 2025 on Apple TV+ (two episodes, then weekly through March 12)¹
Creators	Dani de la Orden (creator and director) with Natalia Durán and Oriol Capel¹
Stars	Verónica Echegui as Marta and Joan Amargós as Raúl¹
Production	Atresmedia TV with Sábado Películas, DeAPlaneta, and Playtime Movies¹
Reception	Metascore 71 (Generally Favorable); IMDb 7.0/10 from 678 votes⁴^•⁵

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Premise

The series follows two characters whose lives collapse in the same period and cross at a funeral. Raúl (Joan Amargós), an orderly man who works in the human resources department of a car dealership, is diagnosed with an angiosarcoma, a cancer of the heart, and his girlfriend of three years, Georgina, ends the relationship. Marta (Verónica Echegui), a sharp-tongued advertising creative who prizes her independence, discovers she is pregnant and begins questioning whether this is her last chance to start a family. The two reconnect at the funeral of a former schoolmate and resume a friendship that began in childhood, testing their beliefs about love as Raúl weighs whether to tell Marta the truth about his illness.⁶^•⁷

Apple's synopsis frames the central questions as whether the commitment-phobic Marta can fall in love and whether Raúl can meet the love of his life.⁷ The series was filmed and is set in Barcelona.⁶

Cast and production

Verónica Echegui, a Goya Award winner whose credits include The Patients of Dr. García, plays Marta; Joan Amargós (Show Yourself) plays Raúl. The ensemble includes Paula Malia (Valeria) as Georgina, Cristian Valencia (Barcelona Christmas Night) as Edu, Claudia Melo, Roger Coma (Grand Hotel), Joan Solé (Cardo), Julián Villagrán (The Snow Girl), and David Bagés (The Last Night at Tremore Beach), with special appearances by Berto Romero, Leticia Dolera, and Pep Munné.¹^•⁶

The series is an Atresmedia TV production in collaboration with Sábado Películas, DeAPlaneta, and Playtime Movies. Montse Garcia (La Ruta, Alba, The Age of Anger), Ana Eiras (Crazy About Her), and Elena Bort (Ana Tramel. El juego) served as executive producers. Composer Dani Trujillo created the score, published by Atresmúsica, mixing references to Chopin's Funeral March with funk passages and a piano love theme.¹^•⁸

Release

Although produced for Atresplayer, the series debuted in primacy on Apple TV+ worldwide on February 5, 2025.¹^•⁶ It reached Spanish viewers on Atresplayer on June 15, 2025, with new episodes each Sunday, after circulating internationally through Apple TV+.⁹^•⁸ The seven first-season episodes carry Spanish titles including "Eros y tanatorio," "La cita," and the finale "Hasta que llegó su hora."²

Reception

Critics received the series favorably. Its Metacritic page records a Metascore of 71, labeled Generally Favorable, from three positive and one mixed review with no negative reviews.⁴ The A.V. Club called it a compelling twist on the boy-meets-girl formula that is consistently funny, occasionally swoony, and poignant; RogerEbert.com credited the creators with mixing familiar components into a funny and heartfelt romance; Collider found the humor sometimes outdated and Marta underdeveloped but praised the chemistry between Amargós and Echegui.⁴ On IMDb the series holds a 7.0/10 rating from 678 votes, with individual first-season episodes scoring between 6.9 and 8.0.⁵ After its Apple TV+ run, los40 reported that the title had performed well and appeared on critics' lists of the year's best series.⁸

The series was Verónica Echegui's final work: the actress died at the age of 42, as reported when A muerte arrived on Atresplayer in June 2025.⁸^•¹⁰

Other uses of the title

The name Love You to Death attaches to several unrelated works. A three-part Channel 4 documentary series of the same name, reviewed in August 2026, examines the case of Lisa Hayden-Johnson, who was convicted after fabricating her son's illnesses.¹¹ Love You to Death is also the title of a series of unofficial companion books to The Vampire Diaries by Crissy Calhoun, published in five season volumes between 2010 and 2014.¹² Separately, Amar a Muerte (Love to Death) is a Univision supernatural telenovela that premiered in October 2018; its English-language title is sometimes rendered similarly.¹³

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026