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Netflix Debuts 'El Cuco de Cristal,' Javier Castillo’s Rural Thriller

The six-episode adaptation relocates the novel to northern Spain under the author’s guidance.

Overview

  • The series follows Clara Merlo, a young doctor who survives a heart transplant and seeks her donor’s story in a secluded village marked by past disappearances.
  • Catalina Sopelana leads the cast alongside Álex García and Itziar Ituño, with direction by Laura Alvea and Juan Miguel del Castillo and scripts by Jesús Mesas Silva and Javier Andrés Roig.
  • Filmed from October 2024 to March 2025 in Extremadura, the production uses Béjar, the Valle del Ambroz and Estudios Auriga in Hervás to create the fictional village of Yesques.
  • Early coverage underscores themes of human malice and violence against women within a folkloric forest setting, with some critics questioning the necessity of the transplant premise.
  • Netflix presents the title as a self-contained limited series of six episodes, and no second season has been announced.