Alpha Males
Spanish	Machos Alfa
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Alberto Caballero Laura Caballero
Written by	Alberto Cabellero Laura Caballero Daniel Deorador Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor Carla Nigra
Directed by	Laura Caballero
Starring	Fernando Gil María Hervás Raúl Tejón Kira Miró Gorka Otxoa Paula Gallego Fele Martínez Raquel Guerrero
Country of origin	Spain
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	30
Production
Cinematography	Juan Luis Cabellos
Editors	Óscar Romero Marta Salas Jaime Segi-Vela
Running time	31–40 minutes
Production company	Contubernio Films
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	30 December 2022 (2022-12-30) – present

Alpha Males (Machos Alfa) is a Spanish comedy television series created by brother-and-sister teamAlberto andLaura Caballero forNetflix. It starsFernando Gil,María Hervás,Raúl Tejón,Kira Miró,Gorka Otxoa, Paula Gallego,Fele Martínez, and Raquel Guerrero, and was produced by the Caballero siblings' own production company, Contubernio Films. The show premiered on 30 December 2022. In January 2023, it was renewed for a second season, which aired on 9 February 2024.^[1] The third season was released on 10 January 2025. The series was subsequently renewed for a fourth season.

The series follows four male friends in their forties who begin to notice theirmale privilege disappearing with social change and the empowerment of women, and they are forced to adapt, each in their own way.

In the first season, the four take a course on "deconstructing masculinity", and the way this affects their perceptions is an underlying theme throughout the show.

Main

• Gorka Otxoa as Santi Peralta, a trained architect who is bored in his surveying job. Álex arranges for him to go on multiple Tinder dates to help him get over his ex-wife Blanca, triggering his interest in the "deconstructing masculinity" course.
• Fele Martínez as Luis Bravo, a police officer who works mostly on traffic offences. He is married to Esther, with two children, but the challenges of modern parenthood are taking a toll on his marriage.
• Fernando Gil as Pedro Aguilar, a TV producer. The wealthiest of the four, his life is thrown into disarray in the first episode, when he is fired in favour of a woman, making him financially dependent on his girlfriend Daniela.
• Raúl Tejón as Raúl Camacho, a restaurauteur. The most immature of the four friends, his masculinity is affronted when Luz asks him for an open relationship. Although he is incapable of coping without Luz, he is also frequently unfaithful to her.
• Paula Gallego [es] as Álex, Santi and Blanca's daughter, aged 17 in the first season. She lives with Santi and is intelligent and open-minded about sex, encouraging him to date more extensively.
• Raquel Guerrero as Esther, Luis's wife and mother of their two children. She dislikes her job as a driving instructor and is frustrated about the decline of her sex life. In the third season, she begins pursuing her dream of acting and stand-up comedy, with mixed results.
• María Hervás as Daniela Galván, a successfulinfluencer and Pedro's girlfriend. Her lifestyle presents challenges to his traditional attitudes.
• Kira Miró as Luz, a divorce lawyer and Raúl's girlfriend. She is much more intelligent, successful, and adventurous than Raúl, which causes problems in their relationship.
• Karol Luna as Patricia, Pedro and Daniela's Peruvian maid. She is very loyal to her employers (especially Daniela) and works to repair their relationship when they experience difficulties. In the second season, she gets pregnant with Stefan, causing major domestic complications.
• Santi Millán as Patrick, he runs the "deconstructing masculinity" course that the four friends attend in the first season. In the second season, the friends (principally Santi) continue to ask him for advice, to his increasing annoyance.
• Víctor Massán as Diego, the group's "gay friend", who suggests Patrick's course to them. In the second season, he opens a restaurant with Raúl.
• Cayetana Cabezas [es] as Blanca, Álex's mother and Santi's ex-wife. Disorganised and irresponsible, she is disengaged from Álex's life but still heavily dependent on Santi.
• Paloma Bloyd as Irene, afeminist journalist who becomes Santi's love interest in the third season.
• Gabriel Alvarez as Ulises, Luis and Esther's son. Luis constantly worries about setting a good example for his son, and his attempts to share "deconstructed" ideals often clash with Esther's more traditional approach.
• Leire Marin Vara as Iris/Jacobo, Luis and Esther's younger child, aged 8–9. In the third season, they begin identifying as a boy and adopt the name "Jacobo".
• Pep Sais as Joaquin, Luis's father. He comes to live with Luis and Esther in the third season, after his wife throws him out. Hismisogynistic ideas clash with Luis's and Iris/Jacobo's more progressive attitudes.
• Nacho Rubio [es] as Jero, Raúl's business partner at his restaurant. At the end of the first season, Luz sells him Raúl's share for one euro out of spite.
• Silvia Marty as Carmen, Jero's wife. She and Raúl have been having an affair prior to the start of the series.
• Victor Hassan as Stefan, Pedro's Bulgarian "maid", whom he recruits when Daniela and Patricia move out. After they move back in, he has an affair with Patricia, resulting in her pregnancy, before Pedro catches him with another woman and fires him.
• Begoña Maestre as Virginia, Pedro's new boss in the third season, taking over as CEO after he is demoted. She has a strong dislike for Pedro.

The series concept was created shortly after the end of the lockdown imposed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[2] After completing filming for the twelfth season ofLa que se avecina, and given the impossibility of resuming the third season ofEl pueblo due to the difficulty of traveling between autonomous communities, the Caballero siblings, together with co-writers Daniel Deorador and Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor, began to develop ideas for a new series.^[3] The team decided to create a show about middle-aged men's reactions to social changes.^[4] With the permission ofMediaset España, who co-owned Contubernio Films, the four writers brought the series to Netflix, who had already shown interest in collaborating with the Caballero siblings.^[3]

Alpha Males was first announced in March 2022, as the first series by the Caballeros exclusively for a streaming platform.^[3] In July 2022, the show's cast was revealed, and it was confirmed that filming had completed.^[5]

Ahead of the release of season 3, the show was renewed for a fourth season, which completed filming in July 2025.^[6] A German adaptation was also announced. There are also French, Dutch, and Italian adaptations in production.^[7]

On 21 November 2022, Netflix released the first images from the series and confirmed that it would premiere on its platform on 30 December 2022.^[8]

In January 2023, the series was renewed for a second season,^[9] which premiered on 9 February 2024.^[10] On 14 February, it was reported that a third season was due to begin filming in March 2024;^[11] it premiered on 10 January 2025.^[12] The series was renewed for a fourth season, which is set to premiere on 9 January 2026.^[13][14]

Netflix has announced that it will produce local adaptations of the series in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.^[15][16]

  Currently airing franchise

Country	Local title	Network	Original release	Status
France	Super Mâles[17] "Shafted"	Netflix	24 January 2025	Ended
Germany	Alphamännchen[18] "Dudes"	Netflix	2 October 2025	Pending
Italy	Maschi Veri[19] "Real Men"	Netflix	21 May 2025	Renewed
Netherlands	Haantjes[20] "Roosters"	Netflix	28 February 2025	Renewed

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