Victim Number 8

Victim Number 8 (Spanish: La víctima número 8) is a Spanish conspiracy thriller television series created by Sara Antuña and Marc Cistaré that originally aired on ETB 2 and Telemadrid from October 10 to November 28, 2018. It stars César Mateo, María de Nati, and Verónika Moral.

Victim Number 8
Spanish	La víctima número 8
Genre	Action Drama Thriller
Created by	Sara Antuña Marc Cistaré
Directed by	Alejandro Bazzano
Starring	César Mateo María de Nati Verónika Moral
Country of origin	Spain
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Production companies	EiTB Telemadrid Mediapro Globomedia K2000
Original release
Network	ETB 2 Telemadrid
Release	October 10 (2018-10-10) – November 28, 2018 (2018-11-28)

Premise

Loosely inspired on the August 2017 Barcelona attacks,^[1] the plot revolves around a jihadi attack in the Old Town of Bilbao with seven casualties and several more wounded, and the police investigation trying to catch those responsible for the killing.^[2][3][4]

Cast

• César Mateo [es] as Omar
• María de Nati as Edurne
• Verónika Moral as Koro
• Iñaki Ardanaz [es] as Gaizka
• Farah Hamed as Adila
• Lisi Linder as Almudena
• Khaled Kouka as Ibrahim
• Óscar Zafra as Gorostiza
• Jesús Ruyman as Comisario
• Alfonso Torregrosa as José María Azkarate
• Itziar Lazkano [es] as Concha
• Son Khoury as Zakir
• Youssef Bougarovaney as Aissa
• Marcial Álvarez [es] as Eche
• Gemma Martínez
• Itziar Aizpuru as María
• Álex Larumbe
• Gilen Xabier as Agente Morera
• Keiko Fayrori

Several EITB and Telemadrid journalists make cameo appearances as themselves.

Production and release

It was co-produced by Mediapro (via its production companies K2000 and Globomedia), ETB and Telemadrid.^[5] Alejandro Bazzano was the director of the series.^[5]

Victim Number 8 premiered in Spain on October 10, 2018, simultaneously on ETB 2 and Telemadrid. The series was released worldwide on Netflix on August 16, 2019.^[6]

Episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally released			Ref.
			First released	Last released	Network
1	8		October 10, 2018 (2018-10-10)	November 28, 2018 (2018-11-28)	ETB 2 & Telemadrid	[7]

No.	Title	Original release date
1	"Omar"	October 10, 2018 (2018-10-10)
2	"Los milagros no existen"	October 17, 2018 (2018-10-17)
3	"Empezar a creer"	October 24, 2018 (2018-10-24)
4	"El tiro de gracia"	October 31, 2018 (2018-10-31)
5	"Una teoría de mierda"	November 7, 2018 (2018-11-07)
6	"Un tiburón que nos haga aún más ricos a todos"	November 14, 2018 (2018-11-14)
7	"El síndrome del nido"	November 21, 2018 (2018-11-21)
8	"Muy fácil o muy difícil"	November 28, 2018 (2018-11-28)

Reception

Victim Number 8 has a rating of 3.5 stars out of 5 on the review website Ready, Steady, Cut.^[6] Writing for Ready Steady Cut, Jonathan Wilson commented: “Tense and engrossing, this Spanish thriller offers a well-paced and tightly-written high-stakes story.”^[8]