| Genre: | Crime drama Black comedy |
| Creator: | Daniel Martín Sáez de Parayuelo |
| Starring: | Pepe Viyuela Lucía Quintana Antonio Garrido Tito Valverde Carmen Ruiz Ginés García Millán Miguel de Lira Filipe Duarte Marta Calvó Camila Viyuela Iván Cózar Pep Ambròs Julio Pereira Janfri Topera José Ángel Egido Belén Constela |
| Country: | Spain |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 10 |
| Runtime: | 70 minutes |
| Channel: | Antena 3 |
Matadero (English: Slaughterhouse) is a Spanish black comedy–crime drama limited television series created by Daniel Martín Sáez de Parayuelo and produced by Diagonal TV for Atresmedia. It premiered on Antena 3 on January 9, 2019[1] and ended on March 13, 2019[2]
In the small Castilian-Leonese town of Torrecillas, meat-processing businessman Francisco (Antonio Garrido) imports cheap and low-quality pigs from Portugal, some of which are used to smuggle cocaine. The veterinarian in his slaughterhouse is his brother-in-law Alfonso (Pepe Viyuela), a weak-willed man who is fed up of being blackmailed to look the other way and certify animals of dubious quality.
When Francisco's lover Coral organises the theft of the latest consignment of drug-smuggling pigs, she sets in motion a violent series of events. This entangles Pascual and Teo, a Murcian-Galician hitman duo, Vasco, a vengeful Portuguese gangster, Maria, Francisco's niece and a member of the Guardia Civil - and above all, Almudena, Francisco's wife, along with the hapless Alfonso.
Elsewhere, Alfonso's wife María José gets promoted in her sales company, under the watchful eye of her smarmy boss, Fermín, and Salvador, a local pig farmer and rival of Francisco's, seeks to win the heart of Almudena, the woman whom he has always loved,