Filmin shoots its new original series 'Second season'

After the “Autodefensa” phenomenon, its creators Miguel Ángel Blanca and Berta Prieto return with 'Second Season', a new original series that will premiere in of the movie in 2026.

Filmin's new original series in co-production with Boogaloo Movies y Canada and with Many times in charge of international sales, is directed by Miguel Ángel Blanca and written by himself together with Victor Diago and Berta Prieto (who also stars in the series), the production marks the return of the creative team that captivated the public with Self defense.

Filming will last 9 weeks, until the end of November, and will take place in different locations in the city of Barcelona, Terrassa and the province of Girona. The series marks the reunion between Miguel Ángel Blanca and Berta Prieto after the success of Self defense, the original Filmin series, released in 2022, which won the Award for Best Short Format Series at the Séries Mania Festival and was nominated for the Feroz Awards in the categories of Best Series and Best Script.

Concerns of Generation Z

Although it may seem so from the title, it is not a second part, but a spiritual continuation of Self defense: a covert spin-off focused on the character played by Berta Prieto. On this occasion, the creators partially move away from autofiction to continue exploring, with the same impudence, the concerns of generation Z, now in transit towards maturity. The characters, previously frivolous and hedonistic, face a more complex narrative and a broader universe, in which responsibilities grow as quickly as their moral contradictions.

Composed of 7 30 minute episodes, the series has a technical team headed by Jordi Diaz (photography direction), Marta Colell (art direction), Cosmic d’Allessandro (sound chief), Berta Galvany (casting direction) and Javier Gil and Victor Diago (mounting).

The series focuses on Paula Ferrara, a young woman who, after publishing her first novel, becomes a generational phenomenon and is translated into 10 languages. Three years later, and after the failed promise of a second novel, his publisher decided to stop advances. Years later, Ferrara is still a writer, but now she is a ghostwriter. Paula seems to have developed an admirable ability to stop being herself and write books for, in her own words, the biggest cultural trash in recent modern history: influencers.

Now he has to write the book to Lil Rogelio, a legend of national trap who at 30 years old is already in the twilight of his career, after two years in jail for attacking a police officer. Lil Rogelio is going to record an album again and it turns out that a millennial publisher has had the brilliant idea that a biography of the ragpicker could sell several editions.