Miniseries · Netflix
The Search
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Regina Blandón
Carolina Tello
6 eps
Dario Yazbek Bernal
Alberto Bazbaz
6 eps
Diana Bovio
Amanda de la Rosa
6 eps
Adrián Ladrón
Alfredo Castillo
6 eps
Verónica Bravo
Lizette Farah
6 eps
Alejandro Calva
Miguel Gómez
6 eps
Memo Villegas
Luis Miranda Nava
6 eps
Edmundo Vargas
Lalo
6 eps
Daniel Haddad
Mauricio Gebara
6 eps
Ernesto Laguardia
Gilberto Torres de León
6 eps
Everardo Arzate
Miguel Ángel Mancera
6 eps
Sophie Alexander-Katz
Adela Micha
6 eps
María Aura
Paty Chapoy
6 eps
Alfonso Borbolla
Jacobo Shueke
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Search actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Search reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
When a girl vanishes from a suburb near Mexico City, the personal goals of some involved in the case muddy the search. Based on a true story.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E01
It Was Harry Potter
S01E02
I Gotta Feeling
S01E03
Climax
S01E04
The Show Must Go On
S01E05
Lights, Bed, Action
S01E06
The Burial
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Santiago LimónWriter
- Silvia JiménezWriter
- Fabián ArchondoWriter
Direction
- Santiago LimónDirector
- Catalina Aguilar MastrettaDirector
- Katina Medina MoraDirector
Cinematography
- Dariela Ludlow DeloyaDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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