The Gardener comes to Netflix on April 11

Today, Netflix revealed the premiere date and the first-look images of The gardener. This "romantic thriller" has been created by Miguel Sáez Carral (Not One More) and starring Álvaro Rico (Sky High: The Series, Sagrada Familia), Cecilia Suárez (The House of Flowers, Someone Has to Die) and Catalina Sopelana (The Crystal Cuckoo, Sky Rojo), among others.

This new six-episode fiction series, which will be released on Friday, April 11, is produced by DLO Producciones, written by Miguel Sáez Carral and Isa Sánchez, and has been filmed under the direction of Mikel Rueda (Veneno) and Rafa Montesinos (El Inmortal), under the executive production of Miguel Lorenzo and José Manuel Lorenzo (Not One More, Tell Me Who I Am).

The gardener tells the story of Elmer and his controlling mother, La China Jurado, manager of a garden center that hides another thriving underground murder-for-hire business. Killing is easy for Elmer. An accident had left him emotionless. However, while planning the murder of Violeta, a charming nursery school teacher, he falls in love with her. Now, Elmer must learn to love while his mother does everything possible to end Violeta's life.

Filming took place mainly in Pontevedra, as well as in Toledo and Madrid.

About DLO Producciones

José Manuel Lorenzo, founder, president and executive producer of DLO Producciones, founded this fiction, film and television production company in 2011, which the Banijay Group has owned since 2013. DLO was already one of the fastest-growing independent audiovisual production companies in Spain, mainly in the field of fiction. DLO Producciones is made up of a multidisciplinary team of audiovisual professionals with a long track record and projects of recognised success: La caza. Monteperdido (RTVE), the breakout series of the 2019 season that premiered with great success in Spain and later in Italy and was renewed for a second and third season: La caza. Tramuntana and La caza. Guadiana; the comedy Señor, dame pasión (Atresmedia, Warner Pictures), the leading Spanish box office film in the summer of 2017, which now has a second part, in series format for Atresmedia; Los Japón, presented at the Málaga Film Festival and starring Dani Rovira and María León; Dime Quién Soy (Movistar Plus+), the first international series from Movistar Plus+, an adaptation of the literary phenomenon of the same name by Julia Navarro; El Inmortal, a television series inspired by the band Los Miami (Telefónica, Telemundo), nominated at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and renewed for a second season that will premiere in 2024; Ni una más, the adaptation of the novel by Miguel Sáez Carral for Netflix; Las larga sombras, directed by Clara Roquet, for Disney; Segunda Muerte, the upcoming Movistar Plus+ thriller filmed in Cantabria; The gardener, created by Miguel Sáez Carral for Netflix; and Anatomía de un instante, an adaptation of Javier Cercas, directed by Alberto Rodríguez, now being filmed.