Cable Girls Season 1

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 1 launched April 28, 2017 as Netflix's first original Spanish-language series, co-produced with Bambu Producciones. Critics gave it a perfect 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from 6 reviews - unanimous approval from a small but consistent critical sample. Decider flagged it as a binge-worthy period soap; Cinema Movil appreciated its placement in the telenovela tradition without the exhausting pacing typical of the format. The 1920s Madrid setting grounded female friendship and workplace politics in a specific historical moment: the brief pre-Republican period when women could earn a wage and imagine more, before the Civil War foreclosed everything. Blanca Suarez, Ana Fernandez, Nadia de Santiago, and Maggie Civantos created a central quartet whose chemistry the series relied on entirely and wisely.

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The Room

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

1. E1Chapter 1: Dreams7.3

   A solid pilot where badges, shifts, and names become the real locks on women trying to move.

   The moment: The four women at their switchboard positions for the first time - a visual that defines the series' governing image of women as the connective tissue of a city that officially ignores them.

   Full review of E1 →
2. E2Chapter 2: Memories7.4

   A dense, purposeful hour turns identity into leverage, though its operational plotting sometimes crowds the emotional pressure.

   Full review of E2 →
3. E3Chapter 3: Lies7.4

   A tight identity hour where papers, secrets, and fake pregnancy turn every private lie into public risk.

   Full review of E3 →
4. E4Chapter 4: Feelings7.3

   A tense consequence hour where every escape plan tightens the trap, even when the dialogue explains too much.

   Full review of E4 →
5. E5Chapter 5: The Past7.4

   Episode 5 turns a love letter into a trap, with sharp pressure on Lidia and a slightly overstuffed legal turn.

   Full review of E5 →
6. E6Chapter 6: Family7.2

   Family becomes Cable Girls' sharpest weapon here, though the dialogue-heavy middle rushes past some of its best danger.

   Full review of E6 →
7. E7Chapter 7: Loss7.3

   A crowded inheritance and blackmail hour works when grief narrows the room, less so when the photo threat circles.

   Full review of E7 →
8. E8Chapter 8: Love8.0

   A sharp finale where the rotary wins the room, but Lidia’s name becomes the more dangerous machine.

   Full review of E8 →