Toy Boy (TV series)

The fiction is set in the Costa del Sol.[3] Hugo Beltrán (Jesús Mosquera) is a young, handsome and carefree stripper. One morning he wakes up on a sailboat, after a night of partying and excesses, next to the burned corpse of a man, allegedly the husband of his lover, Macarena Medina (Cristina Castaño), a mature and powerful woman with whom he maintained a steamy high-voltage sexual relationship. Hugo does not remember anything that happened the night of the crime, but he is sure that he is not the murderer, but the victim of a set-up to accuse him. After a quick trial, he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Seven years later, he is visited in prison by Triana Marín (María Pedraza), a young lawyer who, representing a major law firm, offers to help him reopen the case and try to prove his innocence in a new trial. Although Hugo distrusts the offer, Triana gets the conviction annulled and Hugo is released from prison, on probation and pending the holding of a new trial in which they will have to be able to prove their innocence.

Triana and Hugo work together to try to unravel a complex plot that took an innocent person to prison. A relationship that will not be easy, since they belong to diametrically opposite worlds; She is a lawyer with a hard-working, responsible and bright future. He, a master of the night, former prisoner and considered a murderer by everyone except himself.

• Jesús Mosquera as Hugo Beltrán González
• Cristina Castaño as Macarena Medina de Solís
• María Pedraza as Triana Marín
• José de la Torre as Iván
• Carlo Costanzia as Jairo Soto
• Raudel Raúl Martiato as Germán
• Juanjo Almeida as Andrea Norman Medina
• José Manuel Seda as Borja Medina de Solís
• Álex Gadea as Mateo Medina de Solís
• Javier Mora as Ángel Altamira
• Pedro Casablanc as Inspector Mario Zapata
• Elisa Matilla as María Teresa Rojas
• María Pujalte as Carmen de Andrés
• Adelfa Calvo as Doña Benigna Rojas Romero
• Carlos Scholz as Óscar
• Nía Castro as Claudia
• Miriam Díaz-Aroca as Luisa García[4]
• Cinta Ramírez as Lucía
• Virgil Mathet as Philip Norman

Introduced in season 2

• Álex González as El Turco[5]
• Federica Sabatini as Rania[5]

Created by César Benítez, Juan Carlos Cueto and Rocío Martínez, Toy Boy was produced by Atresmedia Televisión in collaboration with Plano a Plano.[8] Iñaki Mercero and Javier Quintas directed the episodes of the first season.[3] The first season was shot on natural locations of the Costa del Sol: shooting locations included Málaga, Fuengirola, Torremolinos, Mijas, Marbella and Estepona.[9] Filming was wrapped in May 2019.[9] The series premiered on Atresplayer Premium on 8 September 2019, later starting its free-to-air broadcasting run on Antena 3 on 25 September 2019.[10]

Despite mediocre viewership figures in the domestic run on linear television, the series enjoyed a better international reception in Netflix.[11] Thus, in July 2020, Atresmedia and Netflix decided to bring back the series for a second season.[11] Filming started by March 2021 in Vélez-Málaga.[12] In April 2021 Álex González, Federica Sabatini, Enrique Arce, Paco Marín, Ibrahim Al-Shami, Toni Zenet and Juan Betancourt were announced as additions to the cast,[13] with Javier Quintas and Laura M. Campos as directors.[13] Atresplayer Premium set the season 2 premiere date for 26 September 2021.[7]

Season 2 aired on Netflix on 11 February 2022.

• Toy Boy at IMDb