Toy Boy (TV series)

Toy Boy is a Spanish drama produced by Atresmedia and Plano a Plano. The show stars Jesús Mosquera, Cristina Castaño and María Pedraza. It premiered first on FesTVal and Atresplayer Premium in September 2019 before its premiere on Antena 3 on 25 September 2019.

Plot
The fiction is set in the Costa del Sol. Hugo Beltrán (Jesús Mosquera) is a young, handsome and carefree stripper. One morning he wakes up on a sailboat, after a night of partying and excesses, next to the burned corpse of a man, allegedly the husband of his lover, Macarena Medina (Cristina Castaño), a mature and powerful woman with whom he maintained a steamy high-voltage sexual relationship. Hugo does not remember anything that happened the night of the crime, but he is sure that he is not the murderer, but the victim of a set-up to accuse him. After a quick trial, he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Seven years later, he is visited in prison by Triana Marín (María Pedraza), a young lawyer who, representing a major law firm, offers to help him reopen the case and try to prove his innocence in a new trial. Although Hugo distrusts the offer, Triana gets the conviction annulled and Hugo is released from prison, on probation and pending the holding of a new trial in which they will have to be able to prove their innocence.

Triana and Hugo work together to try to unravel a complex plot that took an innocent person to prison. A relationship that will not be easy, since they belong to diametrically opposite worlds; She is a lawyer with a hard-working, responsible and bright future. He, a master of the night, former prisoner and considered a murderer by everyone except himself.

Cast

 * Jesús Mosquera as Hugo Beltrán González
 * Cristina Castaño as Macarena Medina de Solís
 * María Pedraza as Triana Marín
 * José de la Torre as Iván
 * Carlo Costanzia as Jairo Soto
 * Raudel Raúl Martiato as Germán
 * Juanjo Almeida as Andrea Norman Medina
 * José Manuel Seda as Borja Medina de Solís
 * Álex Gadea as Mateo Medina de Solís
 * Javier Mora (actor) as Ángel Altamira
 * Pedro Casablanc as Inspector Mario Zapata
 * Elisa Matilla as María Teresa Rojas
 * María Pujalte as Carmen de Andrés
 * Adelfa Calvo as Doña Benigna Rojas Romero
 * Carlos Scholz as Óscar
 * Nía Castro as Claudia
 * Miriam Díaz-Aroca as Luisa García
 * Cinta Ramírez as Lucía
 * Virgil Mathet as Philip Norman
 * Introduced in season 2
 * Álex González as El Turco
 * Federica Sabatini as Rania

Production and release
Created by César Benítez, Juan Carlos Cueto and Rocío Martínez, Toy Boy was produced by Atresmedia Televisión in collaboration with Plano a Plano. Iñaki Mercero and Javier Quintas directed the episodes of the first season. The first season was shot on natural locations of the Costa del Sol: shooting locations included Málaga, Fuengirola, Torremolinos, Mijas, Marbella and Estepona. Filming was wrapped in May 2019. The series premiered on Atresplayer Premium on 8 September 2019, later starting its free-to-air broadcasting run on Antena 3 on 25 September 2019.

Despite mediocre viewership figures in the domestic run on linear television, the series enjoyed a better international reception in Netflix. Thus, in July 2020, Atresmedia and Netflix decided to bring back the series for a second season. Filming started by March 2021 in Vélez-Málaga. In April 2021 Álex González, Federica Sabatini, Enrique Arce, Paco Marín, Ibrahim Al-Shami, Toni Zenet and Juan Betancourt were announced as additions to the cast, with Javier Quintas and Laura M. Campos as directors. Atresplayer Premium set the season 2 premiere date for 26 September 2021.

Season 2 aired on Netflix on 11 February 2022.