Santo (TV series)

Santo is a Spanish-Brazilian crime action thriller television series with occult detective fiction elements created by Carlos López, directed by Vicente Amorim [pt], and written by Carlo López, Miguel Ángel Fernández, and Gustavo Lipsztein.^[1]

Santo
Created by	Carlos López
Written by	Carlos López, Miguel Ángel Fernández, Gustavo Lipsztein
Directed by	Vicente Amorim
Starring	Raúl Arévalo Bruno Gagliasso Victoria Guerra Greta Fernández
Country of origin	Spain Brazil
Original languages	Spanish Portuguese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Production companies	Nostromo Pictures Prodigo Films
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	16 September 2022 (2022-09-16)

Premise

The plot takes place in between Madrid and Salvador.^[2] It concerns about two police agents from Spain and Brazil chasing a drug trafficker (Santo) whose face has never been revealed connected to occult-adjacent crimes.^[3][4]

Cast

• Raúl Arévalo as Miguel Millán^[5]
• Bruno Gagliasso as Ernesto Cardona^[5]
• Victória Guerra [de] as Bárbara Azevedo^[5]
• Greta Fernández as Susana "Susi" Jackson^[5]
• María Vázquez as Arantxa Rivera^[5]

Production

Created by Carlos López, Vicente Amorim [pt] took over the direction of the episodes.^[3] A co-production for Netflix by companies from Spain and Brazil,^[4] Santo was produced by Nostromo Pictures alongside Prodigo Films.^[3]

Release

Netflix set a 16 September 2022 release date for the 6-episode series.^[3]