Cocaine Coast

Fariña (the Galician slang word for cocaine, literally 'flour') premiered on Antena 3 in February 2018 and ran for ten episodes across a single season. It adapts Nacho Carretero's 2015 non-fiction book of the same name, an investigative account of how Galicia — the wet, rocky north-western corner of Spain whose fishing economy collapsed across the late 1970s — became the principal entry point for South American cocaine into Europe across the 1980s. Carretero's book was the subject of one of the most notorious recent European press-freedom cases: a Galician court order temporarily banned its sale in Spain in 2018 over a defamation suit, an event that coincided with the series' broadcast and drove both the show and the book to unprecedented audiences.

The series is structured around three real clans (the Charlíns, the Oubiñas and the organisation built by Sito Miñanco) and the Civil Guard officers attempting to dismantle them. Javier Rey plays Miñanco as a quiet, deceptively boyish operator; Tristán Ulloa is the dogged Sergeant Castro who pursues him across the decade. Directors Carlos Sedes and Jorge Torregrossa shoot the Galician coast as a near-character: granite, low cloud, narrow rías, fishing villages whose economies have visibly tilted from cod to powder. The Galician-language dialogue, often subtitled even in Spanish broadcast, places the show among the most regionally specific recent productions of Spanish television.

Critical reception in Spain was strongly positive and the series became one of the highest-rated Atresmedia productions of the decade. Netflix acquired international distribution rights for August 2018 release under the English title Cocaine Coast, where it joined an emerging shelf of European long-form organised-crime dramas alongside Gomorrah, Suburra and the later ZeroZeroZero — each treating drug trafficking not as American-style genre but as a documentable, sociological reality of the continent's coastlines.