In October 2024, the streaming platform announced that “Fish Tail” would have two more seasons – the second and third – with filming taking place simultaneously.
The second season of Augusto Fraga’s Portuguese series “Rabo de Peixe” debuts on October 17, at Netflix, the streaming platform revealed on Wednesday.
With production from Ukbar Filmes, A is “very freely inspired by real events” and was shot in the Azores, with creative direction by director Augusto Fraga, who corrected the second season with João Maia.
“In this new season, Eduardo (actor Jose Condessa) returns his fish tail three months after his departure where he finds a completely different reality. Drugs have changed hands and the group’s friendship is tested by new and unexpected enemies. A new business opportunity arises: is it just once again?”
In October 2024, the ‘streaming’ platform announced that “fish tail” would have two more seasons – the second and the third – with simultaneous filming, involving the directors João Maia and Patrícia Sequeira.
In the statement issued today, it is clarified that the third season “is already in filming and will also be released worldwide on Netflix.”
News in the cast
The main cast of the series remains in the second season, with José Condessa, Helena Caldeira, Rodrigo Tomás and André Leitão, as well as Pêpê Mentei, Maria João Bastos, Salvador Martinha, Afonso Pimentel and Kelly Bailey.
The Portuguese actors José Raposo and Ricardo Pereira and the Brazilians Caio Blat and Paolla Oliveira also join the cast.
“Fish Rabo”, which debuted in May 2023, is a production of UKBAR Filmes with Netflix, from an idea of Augusto Fraga.
The (real) events behind the phenomenon
The story is inspired by a true event in 2001, when a sailboat wrecked with half a ton of cocaine on board, having much of the drug given to the coast near fish tail on the island of São Miguel.
From these facts, a fiction was built on four friends who, in possession of several pounds of drugs, aim to change their lives, and a police investigation around that wreck.
“Fish Rabo” was the second Portuguese fiction series produced for Netflix, after Pedro Lopes’s “Glory” (2021), held by Tiago Guedes, and was even in the global ‘top’ of the most viewed series in non -English language.
Because of the series, in 2023, the ribeira local authority, on São Miguel Island, decided to launch a tourist script with the identification of the main “fish ass” filming sites as a way to enhance the local economy.
