A turbulent celebrity marriage sits at the center of Untameable, a 2023 Spanish biographical drama built around the public and private lives of two of Spain's best-known media figures.
What is Untameable about?
When bullfighter-turned-showman Ángel Cristo and television personality Bárbara Rey become a couple, their relationship quickly grows from a private romance into a sprawling, closely watched enterprise that dominates tabloid coverage for years. Behind the cameras and the carefully managed public image, the series traces a much darker undercurrent: addiction, compulsive gambling, and repeated betrayals that strain the marriage from within even as its public profile keeps climbing. Told across hour-long episodes, the show moves between the couple's rise into the spotlight and the slow unraveling that followed, using the trappings of celebrity as a backdrop for a more personal story of two people who cannot quite hold their own lives together.
About the cast
Jaime Lorente takes the role of Ángel Cristo, with Belén Cuesta playing Bárbara Rey opposite him. Adriana Torrebejano, Cristóbal Suárez, Artur Busquets, and José Milán fill out the surrounding cast of family, colleagues, and figures from the couple's orbit across the show's run.
Context & significance
Directed by Daniel Écija, Untameable is a Spanish-language production that draws on real, widely reported events from Spanish celebrity culture, structured as a scripted biographical drama rather than a documentary. Its episode length and pacing put it in line with prestige biographical television rather than a tabloid recap, giving the central relationship room to develop across a full season.
Watching Untameable on Ktime
Untameable is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers follow the series in its original Spanish with Farsi subtitles or watch the fully dubbed version. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start watching, and the show's page can be browsed without signing in first, part of a platform built around a Farsi-language experience for Persian-speaking viewers.