# Veneno (2020)

> A miniseries dramatizing the flamboyant life and enigmatic death of Spanish television icon La Veneno, told through the people who knew her.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/84670

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, history
- Created by: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
- Network: Atresplayer
- Cast: Lola Rodríguez, Isabel Torres, Daniela Santiago, Jedet, Paca la Piraña, Israel Elejalde, Sophia Lamar, Mariona Terés
- TMDB rating: 8.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10383046/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: defiant, sardonic, melancholic, glittering, emotionally raw

## What critics say

Critics and audiences broadly admired the series as a vibrant, acclaimed portrait of a larger-than-life 1990s television icon, praising its performances and its joyful, unapologetic treatment of its subject.

## Synopsis

Veneno (2020) is a Spanish national-television biographical drama miniseries created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, produced by Atresmedia and Buendía Estudios for Atresplayer. Across eight hour-long episodes, it follows the life of La Veneno, the charismatic and outspoken figure who became a fixture of Spanish television in the 1990s, and the enigma surrounding her death. Isabel Torres plays the older La Veneno, Daniela Santiago and Jedet portray her in earlier stages, and Lola Rodríguez plays Valeria, a younger character whose perspective frames the story. Israel Elejalde appears as Pepe, and Sophia Lamar plays Cristina Onassis. The engine of the series is the tension between a woman who refuses to hide her identity and a society eager to consume and dismiss her, with each episode weaving past and present to reconstruct what happened. Its tone is defiant, sardonic and emotionally raw, shifting between glittering celebration of her spirit and a melancholic reckoning with the cost of visibility. Set in Spain across the decades of her rise, the show reads as a queer history lesson wrapped in pop spectacle. Fans of Pose and the Spanish saga Cuéntame cómo pasó will find resonance in its blend of period detail, lgbt history and vivid character drama.

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