About Valeria
Valeria is a Spanish comedy-drama developed by Maria Lopez Castano for Netflix, adapted from Elisabet Benavent's best-selling En los zapatos de Valeria novels. It follows Valeria, a Madrid writer paralyzed by creative block and a marriage that has quietly run out of air. As her relationship with photographer husband Adrian frays, she begins channeling her own messy life into the pages of a new book, blurring the line between the woman she is and the heroine she is inventing.
What keeps Valeria afloat is her tight circle of three best friends. Lola is the bold, sexually liberated one who hides vulnerability behind bravado; Carmen is the cautious romantic learning to trust again; and Nerea is the buttoned-up perfectionist slowly coming into her own. Together they trade secrets over wine, prop each other up through breakups and breakthroughs, and treat friendship as the great love story of their lives. The arrival of the charming, complicated Victor sets off a will-they-wont-they spark that pulls Valeria between comfort and reinvention.
Warm, frothy, and unapologetically female-friendship-forward, the series has been described as a Madrid answer to Sex and the City. Across four seasons it tracks Valeria and her friends through love, career, motherhood, and self-discovery, ending its run as one of Netflix's signature Spanish dramedies. The final season premiered in 2025, closing out the quartet's story with the same blend of humor and heart that defined the show.