# 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 from the night of the crime, but is sure that he is not the murderer, but the victim of a set-up to frame 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 [es] as Borja Medina de Solís
* Álex Gadea [es] as Mateo Medina de Solís
* Javier Mora [es] as Ángel Altamira
* Pedro Casablanc as Inspector Mario Zapata
* Elisa Matilla [es] 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 Leonardo Giallo, alias "El Turco"
* Federica Sabatini [it] as Rania

## Episodes
### Series overview

| Series | Episodes | Episodes | Originally aired | Originally aired | Originally aired | Ref. |
| Series | Episodes | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | Network | Ref. |
| 1 | 13 | 13 | 8 September 2019 (2019-09-08) | 1 December 2019 (2019-12-01) | ATRESplayer Premium | |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | 26 September 2021 (2021-09-26) | 21 November 2021 (2021-11-21) | ATRESplayer Premium | |

### Season 1 (2019)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
| 1 | 1 | "Piloto" "Pilot" | 8 September 2019 (2019-09-08) |
| 2 | 2 | "De entre los muertos" "Among the Dead" | 15 September 2019 (2019-09-15) |
| 3 | 3 | "El juicio final" "The Final Judgement" | 22 September 2019 (2019-09-22) |
| 4 | 4 | "Casilla de salida" "Square One" | 29 September 2019 (2019-09-29) |
| 5 | 5 | "El pulso del asesino" "The Murderer's Pulse" | 6 October 2019 (2019-10-06) |
| 6 | 6 | "El final del túnel" "End of the Tunnel" | 13 October 2019 (2019-10-13) |
| 7 | 7 | "Juego de máscaras" "Masquerade" | 20 October 2019 (2019-10-20) |
| 8 | 8 | "El último testigo" "Sole Witness" | 27 October 2019 (2019-10-27) |
| 9 | 9 | "Amor de madre" "Mother's Love" | 3 November 2019 (2019-11-03) |
| 10 | 10 | "Polaroids" "Polaroids" | 10 November 2019 (2019-11-10) |
| 11 | 11 | "Cachorro" "Young Pup" | 17 November 2019 (2019-11-17) |
| 12 | 12 | "Redención" "Redemption" | 24 November 2019 (2019-11-24) |
| 13 | 13 | "Ángeles caídos" "Fallen Angels" | 1 December 2019 (2019-12-01) |

### Season 2

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
| 14 | 1 | "La persona a la que más quieres" | 26 September 2021 (2021-09-26) |
| 15 | 2 | "Qué es el sexo para ti?" | 3 October 2021 (2021-10-03) |
| 16 | 3 | "El precio de los dioses" | 10 October 2021 (2021-10-10) |
| 17 | 4 | "Cielo e infierno" | 24 October 2021 (2021-10-24) |
| 18 | 5 | "Templos profanos" | 31 October 2021 (2021-10-31) |
| 19 | 6 | "Un gesto de amor" | 7 November 2021 (2021-11-07) |
| 20 | 7 | "Por qué me llaman el turco?" | 14 November 2021 (2021-11-14) |
| 21 | 8 | "Puertas que se abren" | 21 November 2021 (2021-11-21) |

## 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.