“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Netflix’s sweeping and most ambitious series in Latin America, is dropping its second and final season this August. Covering the last 50 years of the century covered by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Marquez’s masterpiece, Season 2 picks up immediately from where the first season ends.
In a rather unusual move, the first seven episodes of the family saga will drop on Aug. 5 while the cinematic grand finale, playing for nearly two hours, will premiere on Aug. 26.
Theatrical screenings of the finale are slated for select cities around Colombia, in partnership with Colombia’s promotional entity Proimágenes.
The first half of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” introduced a young Macondo, a utopian town whose innocence faded as Colonel Aureliano Buendía was consumed by war. The second half follows the next generation of Buendías as progress and modernity reshape the town, sending Macondo on an irreversible path toward decline – and the fulfillment of its long-foretold curse.
“We always intended to release it in two parts so we approached it as a bookended project – having that ending in sight gave us a certain perspective,” said Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s VP of Content, Latin America.
