Cable Girls trivia | 40 facts about the Spanish series on Neftlix

Cable Girls is one of the most successful Netflix Original series, and one of the most popular Spanish series worldwide.

Let’s find out more about “Cable Girls”.

1. Cable Girls is a Spanish period drama web television series.
2. Its original Spanish title is “Chical den Cable”.
3. It ran from April 2017 and concluded in July 2020 produced by Netflix.
4. It is a Netflix Original series.
5. Actually, it was the first Netflix Original series ever created.
6. It is set in the late 1920s.
7. In Cable Girls star Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago, Blanca Suárez and Maggie Civantos.
8. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, premiered on Netflix worldwide on April 28, 2017.
9. The second season was released on December 25 2017.
10. The third season was released on September 7, 2018.
11. The first half of the fifth and final season, was released on Netflix on February 14, 2020.
12. The second half of the fifth and final season was released on Netflix on July 3, 2020.
13. The plot is about the story of four women from different backgrounds newly hired as operators for a phone company.
14. Cable Girls is the first Spanish original produced by Netflix, made in collaboration with Bambu Producciones.
15. The idea for the series began with Ramon Campos and Gema R. Neira who worked together on the screen writing along with José Rustarazo, Jaime Vaca, Carlos Portela, Almudena Ocaña, Paula Fernández and Flora González Villanueva.
16. The series is filmed in Spain’s capital, Madrid, in various locations across the city.
17. These spots had been given a makeover to transport viewers back to the 1920s.
18. The most prominent locations in the series include La Plaza del Alamillo, where the protagonists live.
19. The pension Dolores serving as their home.
20. The street Lope De Vega serving as their route to work.
21. The location in the show required historical accuracy.
22. The scenes in the National Telephone Company, where the women work, are filmed in the Fundacion Telefonica building on Grand Via.
23. Yon González turned down the lead in La catedral del mar (2018) to be in this show.
24. Blanca Suárez (Lidia), Yon González (Francisco) and Martiño Rivas (Carlos), starred together in the Spanish TV series “The Boarding School” when they were younger.
25. The series is set in the 1920s but used hip hop music and dance beat music from 2017.
26. Carlos Sedes directed both the first and last episode of the show.
27. In the first episode when Carlos (Martiño Rivas) mentions to Lidia (Blanca Suárez) that he studied at a boarding school, he’s making a reference to the TV series in which both of the actors starred together when they where younger “The Boarding School” (2007-2010).
28. Is not the first time that Blanca Suárez (Lidia) and Yon González (Francisco) play a couple or love interest, as they previously did so in the Spanish TV series “The Boarding School”.
29. The characters are fictionalized.
30. Despite that the show’s backdrop of Spain’s first telecommunications company, Telefónia, and its hiring of female phone operators is based in fact.
31. However, the show begins in 1928.
32. This is a year before construction on the actual Telefónica was complete, according to the company’s website.
33. A few years before Spain would grant women the right to vote in 1931.
34. Despite being sandwiched between two major historical events, Nadia de Santiago, who plays Marga, explained to NME that the first Spanish language Netflix original is, “set in Spain, but it is very international. It’s in the 1920s but it could be the ’20s in any other cities. And though it is set in the 1920s, we don’t really discuss politics of the decade. It’s not about what’s happening in Spain historically.”
35. The Cable Girls is placed between the beginning of the feminist movement in Spain and women gaining the right to vote.
36. In general, Cable Girls deals with many social issues, that still concern people.
37. For example, one of them is the LGBTQ+ rights.
38. Maggie Civantos, who plays Ángeles, told Teleprograma that she feels the struggles women face and the show’s technological revolution is still relevant today.
39. Maggie Civantos didn’t portray Angeles during the last season.
40. One other social issue that the Cable Girls dealt with was the family abuse, and the violence against women.