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Santita(2026)

Archived · Netflix

167 eps
S01
DramaRomance
ON AIR: APR 22Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Santita is a second-chance romance built around a single defining rupture: a woman who left the man she loved at the altar after a crash changed her life, and the two decades of silence that followed. The story moves at a reflective pace, less interested in plot machinery than in what it costs María José to finally look back honestly at what she chose and why.

His return after twenty years does not arrive as a dramatic confrontation so much as a slow pressure on old guilt. Lighter comic moments surface throughout, keeping the tone from settling into pure regret, and that tonal mix gives the heavier scenes room to breathe. The crash and its aftermath belong to the backstory; what the show actually tracks is emotional reckoning, the kind that accumulates quietly until it cannot be deferred any longer.

Best for

second-chance romance, wedding-left-behind and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Romance

Commitment

Season 1 · 7 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

After being wheelchair-bound from a crash, María José "Santita" Cano left her love at the altar. 20 years later, his return makes her face her past choices and test the limits of her love.

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