Netflix finds its own Spanish version of 'Grey's Anatomy': this is the new series from the creator of 'Elite'

The Joaquín Sorolla Hospital is much more than a public medical center in Valencia where lives are saved daily. Doctors and residents work tirelessly at the frantic pace of the emergency room, where tensions, emotions, and even desire accelerate the pulse of a staff that increasingly lives on the edge. With these lines, Netflix presented its new series Respira, a medical drama created by Carlos Montero (Élite) that aspires to be the Spanish version of Grey's Anatomy.

This new 8-episode series is produced by El Desorden Crea and has Carlos Montero and Diego Betancor as executive producers. The episodes are directed by David Pinillos and Marta Font, and written by Carlos Montero, Carlos Ruano, Guillermo Escribano, and Pablo Saiz.

The cast includes Najwa Nimri (Money Heist, Sagrada Familia), Aitana Sánchez Gijón (Parallel Mothers, The Regent), Blanca Suárez (Cable Girls), Manu Ríos (Élite, The Silence), Borja Luna (Christ and King, Without a Trace), and Alfonso Bassave (I'm Alive, Antidisturbios). Also in the cast are Ana Rayo, Macarena de Rueda, Blanca Martínez, Abril Zamora, Xoán Fórneas, Marwa Bakhat, and Víctor Sáinz, among others.

Respira will premiere on August 30 on Netflix and is set from the perspective of Biel (Manu Ríos), one of the residents of the hospital, who has been giving his all in a public hospital for months. Hundreds of shifts, thousands of hours, leaving him barely any time for his personal life, all in order to become the best doctor. What he doesn't imagine is that a total strike will erupt at the hospital, without any minimum services.

The healthcare workers are forced to do this to raise awareness about their essential work and to protest against all the unbearable cuts that public health is suffering. But Biel and the other residents are unsure whether to support this strike that could have fatal consequences for the patients. And from this conflict, we will get to know each of them in their daily lives. Who are these young people who are sacrificing themselves at the hospital taking on excessive responsibilities, and who are these adults willing to risk everything to fight for what they believe in?

Additionally, the arrival of a prestigious patient will highlight the complex situation that public health is facing. This will ignite the fuse of what will become an unprecedented drastic strike.

The production company El Desorden Crea, founded by Carlos Montero, "is born from the desire to take all ideas that deserve to be told to a successful outcome". In this new adventure, Montero is joined by Diego Betancor, executive producer of Élite. Respira will be the second production from El Desorden Crea after Every Time We Fell in Love, also a Netflix original.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence