# Paquita Salas
**Paquita Salas** is a Spanish mockumentary workplace comedy series created, written, and directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known together as "los Javis". It follows Paquita Sánchez, a talent agent who was among Spain's best in the 1990s and whose world is shaken when her best-known actress leaves her unexpectedly.[1](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/) The series premiered in 2016 on Atresmedia's digital platform Flooxer, moved to Netflix for its second season in 2018, and ran for three seasons through 2019.[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5866074/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Creators | Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo ("los Javis"), also writers and directors[1](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/) |
| Lead cast | Brays Efe as Paquita, with Belén Cuesta and Lidia San José[4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828) |
| Run and platform history | Flooxer (2016), Netflix for seasons two (2018) and three (2019); IMDb dates the run 2016–2019[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5866074/) |
| Episodes | 16 total: 5 in season one, 5 in season two, 6 in season three, each about 20 minutes[5](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/paquita-salas) • [4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828) |
| Awards | One Premio Ondas and four Premios Feroz[1](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/) |
| Format | Mockumentary (falso documental) hybridizing comedy and fake documentary[6](http://hdl.handle.net/10234/189572) |
| Streaming | Netflix, original audio Spanish (Spain), with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)[4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828) |
## Spoilers
### Premise and format
Paquita Salas directs the agency PS Management and was a top talent agent for actors in the 1990s. After suddenly losing her biggest client, the popular actress Macarena García, she searches desperately for new stars.[4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828) A scholarly analysis describes the premise as a fallen artist representative seeking a new "360" talent who will restore her agency's renown.[6](http://hdl.handle.net/10234/189572)
Episodes run about 20 minutes.[4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828) The plot develops across the seasons: season two ends with Paquita closing her agency because of debts, a storyline the creators framed as the unprecedented courage of depicting a character giving up.[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html) In season three, after dismantling her talent agency, Paquita comes out of retirement to launch a more modest agency, or as she would say, more "gourmet", and faces the world of influencers and short films.[7](https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/80195828) The creators said the third season mixes the naive tone of the first with the richness of the second, dealing with second chances and readapting.[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html)
### Cast and characters
Brays Efe plays the protagonist, a woman over fifty interpreted by a man, a casting choice [El País](https://www.edgepedia.org/el-pais) noted as breaking television convention.[8](https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/television/1475776949_268272.html) Belén Cuesta plays the loyal Magüi Moreno.[9](https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/cine-teatro/20200930/todo-debes-saber-de-biografia-paquita-salas/524697670_0.html) The wider cast across the three seasons includes Macarena García, Yolanda Ramos, Lidia San José, Mariona Terés, Álex de Lucas, Claudia Traisac, Gracia Olayo, Alicia Hermida, Belinda Washington, María Rosa Cobo, Ana Milán, Andrés Pajares, María Hervás, and Anna Castillo.[1](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/)
## Production and release history
The first episode premiered online at the beginning of summer 2016, and Atresmedia's platform Flooxer aired the remaining episodes of the five-episode first season, with the fourth available from 11 October 2016.[8](https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/television/1475776949_268272.html) Atresmedia also premiered the first episode on conventional television through the channel Neox, but the series' digital success was not reflected in television audience figures.[8](https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/television/1475776949_268272.html)
The second season, released in 2018, moved to Netflix, and the third premiered on Netflix in June 2019.[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html) In February 2019 the creators signed a content-creation deal with Atresmedia, making them among the country's busiest producers.[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html) As of September 2020, a fourth season was far from release, with the creators immersed in other projects including the series based on La Veneno.[9](https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/cine-teatro/20200930/todo-debes-saber-de-biografia-paquita-salas/524697670_0.html)
## Reception and awards
When the first episode appeared online in summer 2016, the Spanish series-loving public received it as a breath of fresh air, and El País called it the Spanish revelation series that was not born on television.[8](https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/television/1475776949_268272.html) The production company Suma Content records that the three seasons became a phenomenon, winning one Premio Ondas and four Premios Feroz, and that the fiction went from the Flooxer platform to international recognition thanks to Netflix.[1](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/) Both Brays Efe and Belén Cuesta received award nominations and wins for their performances.[9](https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/cine-teatro/20200930/todo-debes-saber-de-biografia-paquita-salas/524697670_0.html)
## By the numbers
The complete series comprises 16 episodes in three seasons, distributed 5, 5, and 6, each roughly 20 minutes long.[5](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/paquita-salas) • [4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828) Its documented award total is one Premio Ondas and four Premios Feroz.[1](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/) The run spans 2016 to 2019.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5866074/)
## Mockumentary style and real-world references
The series is structured as a falso documental, a hybridization of the comedy genre and fake documentary that, in the words of a media-studies thesis, lends the series a great air of realism.[6](http://hdl.handle.net/10234/189572) The same analysis identifies the show's intertextual references to 1990s Spanish television culture and its portrayal of the hidden side of the Spanish audiovisual industry as central lines of the series.[6](http://hdl.handle.net/10234/189572)
Real television personalities appear playing themselves, including Ana Obregón, Antonio Resines, Paz Vega, and Miriam Díaz Aroca.[2](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html) The fiction also folds in the creators' own circle: the agency that "discovered" Macarena García refers to the sister of Javier Ambrossi himself.[9](https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/cine-teatro/20200930/todo-debes-saber-de-biografia-paquita-salas/524697670_0.html)
## Relationship to the creators' other works and legacy
Paquita Salas sits within a body of work by Ambrossi and Calvo that began with *La llamada*, an independent musical theater piece that was being adapted into a film while the series was being made; the creators described the series as telling a very large story, that of a woman facing loss, and called it universal.[8](https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/television/1475776949_268272.html) Academic scholarship notes the central role popular music plays in the creative imaginary of series created by los Javis, beginning with *La Llamada*.[10](https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/10563955.pdf)
The series' afterlife extended beyond the screen. On 23 September 2020 a licensed fictional biography of Paquita Salas was published, traveling to her childhood in Navarrete, her professional beginnings in Barcelona in the 1980s, and the beginnings of her illustrious agency.[9](https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/cine-teatro/20200930/todo-debes-saber-de-biografia-paquita-salas/524697670_0.html) The series remains available on Netflix, where it is rated TV-MA and categorized as a Spanish mockumentary workplace sitcom, with subtitle options for international viewers.[4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828)
## References
1. [Paquita Salas, Suma Content](https://sumacontent.com/paquita-salas/)
2. [La 'Teleindiscreta', Emilio Aragón y Harmony Korine: viaje a las raíces de 'Paquita Salas', El País (2019)](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/27/television/1561651072_714937.html)
3. [Paquita Salas (TV Series 2016–2019), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5866074/)
4. [Watch Paquita Salas, Netflix Official Site](https://www.netflix.com/title/80195828)
5. [Paquita Salas, streaming tv show online, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/paquita-salas)
6. [Paquita Salas y la cultura televisiva de la década de 1990 (thesis)](http://hdl.handle.net/10234/189572)
7. [Paquita Salas, Netflix Media Center](https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/80195828)
8. ['Paquita Salas', la serie revelación española no nació en televisión, El País (2016)](https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/television/1475776949_268272.html)
9. [Todo lo que debes saber de la biografía de Paquita Salas, Crónica Global (2020)](https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/cine-teatro/20200930/todo-debes-saber-de-biografia-paquita-salas/524697670_0.html)
10. [Las canciones de Paquita Salas: función y significado en la ficción televisiva (Dialnet)](https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/10563955.pdf)
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