What is Cable Girls about?
In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
Cable Girls (2017)
Four women in 1920s Madrid navigate romance, envy, and a changing world at the telephone company.
A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
Cable Girls parents guide
No surprises for a TV-MA: moderate sex and nudity, and some violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created byGema R. Neira, Ramón Campos, Teresa Fernández-Valdés
StarringBlanca Suárez, Yon González, Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago, Martiño Rivas, Ana Polvorosa
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