Overview

• Netflix premiered Superestar on July 18 as a series that dramatizes the meteoric rise of Yurena and other nontraditional pop figures from early-2000s Spain.
• Nacho Vigalondo exercised full creative control and characterized the series as a poetic reimagining of tamarismo rather than a straightforward biography.
• Each episode incorporates at least one impossible element—ranging from duplicated characters to vanishing objects—to free the story from strict factual constraints.
• Ingrid García-Jonsson spent two to three hours daily in makeup and voice coaching to embody Yurena’s persona authentically.
• Media commentators and experts highlight Superestar as part of a Spanish television trend that uses nostalgia to dignify and prompt reflection on once-marginalized pop figures.