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To call Superstar a biopic is like calling a hurricane a bit of a breeze. This is no paint-by-numbers life story. Instead, creator Nacho Vigalondo grabs the strange, true tale of Spanish pop phenomenon Tamara and shatters it into a thousand glittering pieces, creating a fever-dream fantasia on the nature of fame.

The series dives headfirst into the early 2000s, a wild west era for television where a singer with a limited voice and an extravagant aesthetic could become a national obsession. Superstar isn’t interested in a simple chronicle of Yurena, the name Tamara would later adopt.

It seeks to capture the bizarre cultural weather system that surrounded her: the phenomenon of “Tamarísmo.” Vigalondo, a master of sci-fi comedy and fantasy, uses his distinct style not to escape reality, but to find a more profound truth within the media-fueled madness. It’s a chaotic, hilarious, and often unsettling ride.

The ending of Superstar hinged on a confrontation between the two personas of the titular character, Yurena and Marimar. What preceded that is a bit hard to describe because of the miniseries’ unhinged and anthological nature, as it focused on all the people who influenced and were influenced by Maria del Mar Cuena Seisedos. Through the perspectives of Margarita, Leonardo Dantes, Loly Alvarez, Arlekin, Paco Porras, and Tony Genil, we more or less got the bullet points of her highs and lows: how she got her big break, her falling out with her lyricist, the sex tape with Arlekin, and her elimination from the TV show Survivor. Most of it, despite seeming extremely preposterous, was surprisingly factually correct. That said, a significant chunk of the show was probably fictional (very fictional) in nature, as it tried to evoke the feeling of living such a chaotic life instead of just giving it to you straight.

Netflix has ordered another Spanish film, My Dearest Señorita, and unveiled a first look at upcoming dram series Superstar at an event in Madrid.

My Dearest Señorita, produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, is an adaptation of the 1972 Oscar-winning film of the same name directed by Jaime de Arimañán, who co-wrote the script with José Luis Borau starring José Luis López Vázquez.

The 1970s film was a romantic drama that explored themes of intersexuality, and was one of very few to tackle sexual orientation in General Franco’s ultra-conservative Spain. It won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 1973 Oscars.

“My Dearest Señorita is an adaptation,” said Calvo and Ambrossi in a statement. “Times have changed, and we believe it is a good time to revisit this story, a story of gender identity and wonderful, mainstream love. The creative challenge is how far we can update it without losing the essence.