Lights, Camera, Tax Audit
Cameras are rolling on season two of Celeste, and Carmen Machi is back as the stubborn Tax Agency inspector Sara Santano. This time she’s reopening a case that puts her squarely up against a beloved soccer star who apparently slipped past the taxman.
What the New Season Feels Like
Expect the show’s familiar mix of dry humor and social poke-with-a-stick. The new episodes lean into satire, using Sara’s investigations to hold up a mirror to Spanish society — especially how we worship athletes and forgive their sins when they keep scoring.
The Team Behind the Scenes
The scripts are once again led by creator Diego San José alongside Oriol Puig and Fernando Delgado-Hierro, and Elena Trapé returns to direct. The plan: six half-hour episodes that keep the pace snappy and the jokes pointed.
Why Soccer?
According to the creative team, they picked the soccer world on purpose — it’s where celebrity glows brightest and accountability sometimes fades. Putting a no-nonsense tax inspector into that universe makes for comedy and conflict: a socially sanctioned idol vs. the person who asks where the money went.
Where You’ve Seen It
The first season has been gathering fans beyond Spain — it recently aired in France on Arte and just arrived on Argentina’s Flow platform to positive notices, so there’s some international buzz heading into this new chapter.
Production Notes
Celeste is a Movistar Plus original produced with 100 Balas (The Mediapro Studio). It shares creative DNA with Yakarta, another series from the same team.
The Bottom Line
Short version: expect sharp satire, big personalities, and Carmen Machi doing her trademark thing — bringing a brittle, moral center into a world that would rather cheer than critique. It’s Sara Santano vs. the football gods, and that’s a matchup worth watching.