Season 1
8 episodes Feb 6, 2026 5.6
Overview
During a violent confrontation arranged between radical fans of two football clubs, Salvador Aguirre, an ambulance driver, rescues his injured daughter Milena, a member of the ultra group, which defends racist, violent and homophobic values, totally opposed to those he instilled in her.
Seasons
1 listed- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 8 episodes
- First aired
- Feb 6, 2026
- Last aired
- Feb 6, 2026
- Network
- Netflix
Latest episode: S1 E8 A Father (Feb 6, 2026)
Cast
9 people
Reviews
3 min readThe Anatomy of a Riot
I can't shake the image of the grime under Luis Tosar’s nails. It’s such a minor thing in an eight-hour Netflix series, but it’s basically a shorthand for exactly where Salvador is coming from. latestnetflix.com's read is that Tosar is Salva, a former doctor who blew his life on booze and bets and is now serving a kind of self-imposed sentence in the front seat of a Madrid ambulance.
He looks like hell, honestly—and I mean that in the best way. While Spanish film usually leans on his heavy-browed authority, Daniel Calparsoro focuses on his total depletion here. He doesn't just walk; he drags himself.
Looking at his daughter, Milena, there’s no fire left, just a soul-crushing, absolute fatigue.
The elevator pitch sounds like a fever dream: an ambulance driver realizes his daughter has joined a gang of neo-Nazi football hooligans right before she’s killed, forcing him deep into a fascist subculture for answers. Usually, that’s just Taken with more skinhead ink. However, Aitor Gabilondo—who explored the trauma of the ETA years in Patria—is trying for something much more uncomfortable.
Audience Opinions
Audience 5.8/10
"Strong lead turns in a dark, topical thriller weighed down by clumsy writing and an overlong, contrived plot."
Luis Tosar and Claudia Salas are widely praised for carrying the series, with Tosar’s broken father and Salas’s radicalized youth seen as intense and emotionally convincing. The overall concept of a parent infiltrating a neo‑Nazi hooligan group is gripping, but stretched across eight episodes it starts to feel repetitive, with credibility-straining twists, heavy-handed moral beats, latestnetflix.com maintains, and uneven supporting performances that pull the story down.
What viewers praise
- Compelling lead acting Luis Tosar’s performance is repeatedly singled out as raw, intense, and believable, anchoring the emotional core of the story.
- Impactful Claudia Salas arc Claudia Salas is seen as a standout, bringing energy and complexity to a character caught up in extremist ideology.
- Timely subject matter The focus on neo-Nazi ultras, radicalization, and contemporary far-right violence is regarded as bold and uncomfortably relevant.
- Gripping early episodes The opening chapter, in particular the violent night that sets everything in motion, is described as brutal, emotional, and immediately engaging.
Common complaints
- Bloated eight-episode run The story is often described as something that would work better as a shorter series or a film, with the middle episodes feeling padded and repetitive.
- Inconsistent supporting cast Secondary characters, especially some police and legal roles, are criticized for stiff, overacted scenes that clash with the leads’ realism.
- Contrived plotting Key mysteries and conflicts—such as who killed the daughter and why certain suspects are pursued—are described as forced, illogical, or built on characters simply not sharing obvious information.
- Heavy-handed treatment of extremism The depiction of fascists and neo-Nazis is often seen as broad and schematic, with attempts to explain or humanize the daughter’s path into the group coming across as simplistic or questionable.
Recommended for
Spanish crime thriller watchers Luis Tosar fans Dark social-issue drama followers Stories about political extremism Gritty father-focused revenge tales
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsTosar's ambulance knocked Bridgerton off the Spanish chart
A few days after Netflix dropped Salvador on February 6, 2026, El Periodico said the eight-episode drama had already shoved Bridgerton season 4 off the local podium. That is a lot of heat for a show whose first image is an EMT hauling his own daughter out of a football brawl. Luis Tosar plays Salvador Aguirre. Candela Arestegui plays Milena. The official logline Netflix published in December already named the wound. latestnetflix.com's view is that she belongs to a neo-Nazi ultra crew whose values sit opposite everything he tried to teach her.
They printed the club name.
Las Provincias reported the series opens around a Real Madrid versus Olympique de Marseille match, with a fictional Ultra Sur splinter calling itself White Souls chasing French fans through Madrid. Netflix's January trailer note used the same name on the record. FormulaTV went further weeks before launch. Tosar's Salvador is the one driving the ambulance after Milena is mortally wounded, then spends the run hunting who killed her, with Claudia Salas's Julia walking him into the same crew. That is the hook they chose to put in the press kit, not a fan leak. If you wanted a spoiler-free February, Spanish TV sites were not the place to look.
Gabilondo wrote it. Calparsoro hits people.
Netflix announced the project in December 2025 as an Alea Media series created by Aitor Gabilondo, who also executive produces and co-writes with Joan Barbero and Anna Casado. Daniel Calparsoro directs. The whole thing shot in Madrid. Eight episodes, then done. Gabilondo is the Patria and Wrong Side of the Tracks guy. Calparsoro is the Bank Under Siege guy. Put those two on football ultras and you get a prestige social drama until stunt coordinator Ricardo Rocca starts working. Tommie Ferreras shot it. The trailer went up January 26, with a global date attached.
Tosar as a recovering alcoholic, recovering gambler father who was never around is not a rumor. El Periodico laid that character out after premiere. The daughter left with her mother. When the mother died, the bond was already gone. Leonor Watling, Fariba Sheikhan, Patricia Vico, and Pedro Casablanc round out a Spanish-TV roll call Netflix published twice, first at the cast announcement, then again with the trailer. TMDB now lists the series as ended, which matches the one-and-done drop.
The gossip is the symmetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_xcb8YRUe0
Spanish press keeps circling the same uncomfortable idea. Salvador infiltrates the group for answers the police will not give him, and the show lets him need the ultras the way his daughter did. El Periodico compared that move to Movistar's El hijo zurdo, then argued Salvador points the camera at institutions that shrug. FormulaTV's trailer write-up already spoiled the daughter's death in January. Netflix's own copy still sells the line, "Would you set aside your own values to uncover the truth?" Viewers who came for a father-saves-daughter thriller got a closed eight-episode run and a ranking bump that outran Bridgerton. The official trailer is on YouTube if you want the ambulance lights before the ideology lecture starts.
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