# Cable Girls (2017)

> Four women at Madrid's National Telephone Company in the 1920s navigate romance, envy and the stirrings of revolution in a modern workplace.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/62215

## Facts

- Seasons: 5
- Episodes: 42
- Episode runtime: 50 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Gema R. Neira, Ramón Campos, Teresa Fernández-Valdés
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Blanca Suárez, Yon González, Ana Fernández, Maggie Civantos, Nadia de Santiago, Martiño Rivas, Ana Polvorosa, Nico Romero
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5674718/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: wistful, melodramatic, bittersweet, romantic

## What critics say

Audiences consider the series a positive, warm period romance whose strongest season is its first and whose later seasons are more uneven.

## Synopsis

Cable Girls (2017-2020) is a Spanish period drama series created by Gema R. Neira, Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés for Netflix. Set in 1920s Madrid, it follows four women working as telephone operators at the National Telephone Company: Alba Romero (Blanca Suárez), Carlota Rodríguez (Ana Fernández), Marga Suárez (Nadia de Santiago) and Ángeles Vidal (Maggie Civantos), alongside male figures such as Francisco Gómez (Yon González) and Carlos Cifuentes (Martiño Rivas). The engine of the show is the tangle of romance, envy and ambition that the women carry into a switchboard room where every call is watched and every secret can travel. Each episode mixes workplace friction with courtship, rivalry and the quiet stirrings of a broader revolution, and the series unfolds as one continuing story across five seasons and forty-two episodes. Its atmosphere is warm and wistful, with a bittersweet register that lingers on friendship and loyalty as much as on heartbreak. Fans of Downton Abbey, Gran Hotel and Mad Men will find resonance in its period costume, its ensemble of women and its mix of romance with social change.

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