Furia (Rage) is a 2025 Spanish Black Comedy Satire series by HBO.
It is structured around different women, showing a Freak Out on each episode. Although the tagline mentions only 5 women, there are more than 5 main characters.
The series starts with the main characters in some kind of spiritual mindfulness session. All of them are there after reaching a violent breakthrough.
Cut to two years before, where we will see How We Got Here...
Tropes appearing on this show:
- A Day in the Limelight: Each of the first 6 episodes is named after their main character(s).
- Actor Allusion: Victoria's life has a lot in common with her actress, Cecilia Roth.
- Alliance of Revenge: Proposed by Marga in the first episode. Also the end of Episode 2.
- All Women Are Prudes: Averted. Tina enjoys her sexual affair with her boss, and there's a brief moment of Vera being disappointed after her husband decides to go to sleep.
- Affably Evil: After Vera snaps, she is the only one to plan and take steps to execute a positively gruesome crime, but she remains chipper and even tries to make conversation throughout.
- Affectionate Nickname: Nat calls Rosa Rose, probably in an effort to add sophistication to their lives.
- Arch-Enemy: Vera and Emilio, the food critic. People tell her to move on, but the reviewer also appears to see it as a personal matter and he seeks her out to record some new reviews.
- Bash Brothers: In episode 2, where Nat and Rosa destroy the store they formerly worked.
- Behind Every Great Man: Vera is a well-known chef in her own right, but every conversation with or about her seems to end up mentioning her plastic surgeon husband one way or another.
- Black Comedy: All episodes, but especially episode 3.
- Bourgeois Bohemian: Marga is the most prominent example.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Many characters get drunk. Nat is obviously not used to drinking. Subverted with Victoria, who is implied to have a drinking problem, and with Adela, who is confirmed to have a drinking problem.
- Cathartic Scream: Vera lets one of this out in the first scene, two years after the main events.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Marga is an edgy example, as an out-there, dark artist. Nat is rather downplayed, but she seems not to have a clue how she's perceived by most people and clearly lives in her own world.
- Clueless Boss: Marga.
- Connected All Along: All characters are, at most, one degree of separation from one another. Most even live in the same neighbourhood.
- Conspicuous Consumption: Lu and Megan live as fashion vloggers, but they are struggling to get by. Nat takes this to a bigger extreme with her very humble flat being stuffed with clothes.
- Control Freak: Nat is very proper and she just won't the new girls interact with her clients. She also constantly chides her best friend for her trashy dietary habits.
- Vera tries to improve the placement of her product in the store by herself.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Vera's experimental healthy vegan cracker flavours are not universally beloved.
- Dirty Coward: Roberto lets his doctor friend do all of his dirty work and heavy lifting in telling his girlfriend his plan to use her and keep lying to his wife.
- Dissonant Serenity: Especially given how on edge she tends to be, the last minutes of Vera's episode show her possibly behaving more relaxed than we've ever seen her before.
- Dr. Jerk: Borja, Vera's husband, is a very famous plastic surgeon. He generally keeps a cold demeanor, both in and out of his clinic, and he does things such as caress his wife's face and tell her that her wrinkles are starting to show.
- Dramatic Irony: Many instances in different episodes:
- Rosa appears in the opening scene with Nat. She speaks for Rosa, over Rosa, and generally makes her feel as if she's invisible. She complains about it briefly in that scene. in the episode, we see that two years prior, Rosa is tired of being treated as a second-rate person by Nat, who she feels is so energetic and rambling that she drains the life out of her. They're clearly foils to one another in that they're treated similarly by a business in which both have a similar amount of experience, and Rosa shares each key story beat of Nat's story. And yet the episode is simply called Nat.
- Adela's mum suffers from dementia, and she has not paid rent in months (since Adela's dad died, so she has to be dealing with grief as well). Her only chance is to pay their rent debt in a few days. She starts a low-paying job that might give her a chance if she makes some sales. It seems that she might make a sale with one client, who won't stop hitting on her. The "prospective client" was her landlord, who was making fun of her.
- Eccentric Artist: Once again, Marga.
- The Fashionista: Nat, exaggeratedly so. Megan and Lu are a younger variant, slightly less flamboyant. Marga enjoys flowing robes and dressing up for special occasions.
- Friendship Denial: Rosa chews Nat out when she's had enough. Truth is, she can't stand her.
- Genki Girl: Nat is a grown-up version, with her high energy and enthusiastic demeanour. She's rarely downcast.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Megan is more jealous than she seems.
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: Vera is giddy when she thinks her husband is having one of these.
- Gun Nut: Marga.(gunshot in the distance)Vera: Oh, this woman loves herself some shooting.
- The Help Helping Themselves: Tina tells her mum she's taken a couple of things from her employer's house.
- How We Got Here: Many moments as the different episodes explain circumstances, meetings or appearances in one another.
- Humiliation Conga: Adela and Nat have a rough couple of days in their respective episodes.
- Hysterical Woman: the show plays with this trope, centering women's experiences. Nat is a mild example of a very emotional, reactive woman, and Vera is treated as such (condescension and coldness included) by her husband.
- I Reject Your Reality: Nat is so skilled at Selective Obliviousness that she can just escalate it if needed.Nat: What do you mean you can't stand me… How so? You can't mean that. It must be all that toxic junk that you eat.
- Innocently Insensitive: Both Nat and Rosa are convinced that Rosa will be fired, and Nat just won't stop talking about being close to a promotion.
- Jaded Washout: Poor Adela is a feminine version. Called out on this by her daughter.
- Mad Artist: Marga's art is always eerily creepy or bloody and violent, or creepily violent, almost all of it dealing with children and/or guns, save for Tina's colourful work outfit, which is not an uniform.
- Nervous Wreck: Vera often has a hard time hiding her anxiety, try as she may. Nat is somewhat similar but comes off as being constantly in a rush.
- No Social Skills: Nat is optimistic, perfectionistic and peppy, and she won't turn it off or tone it down. She can't read people or their reactions well, either.Nat: Rosa, are you going home?Rosa: Yes, but I didn't bring my car.Nat: But I saw you put it in the parking garage this morning!Rosa: That's right. I forgot.Nat: If I hadn't told you, you would have left your car! Let's go.
- Only Sane Woman: Rosa is the most consistently reasonable and understated character.
- The Perfectionist: Vera. Her husband Borja as well. Probably plays a part in her neuroses. She can be very obsessive.
- Proper Lady: Nat holds traditional views on sales, propriety and even fashion. The series shows that she is still working-class, despite her aspirations and her flamboyant fashion style.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: A couple, given the premise.
- One given by Rosa to Nat. Crosses over with Friendship Denial.
- One given by Victoria to her agent.
- Rebuff the Amateur: From the point of view of the authority figure first, as Nat views the two young girls new in her department as upstarts without understanding or respect for the world of fashion (and thus, her and their jobs).
- Rejection Projection: Vera won't pay attention to a hundred praises if there is one criticism.
- The Resenter:
- Rosa really can't stand Nat's attitude. It seems that the dynamic must have gone on for years, but she didn't say anything.
- Vera's restaurant was criticised by an online reviewer with an internet following. The review got some track, but her perception of how influential it was seems magnified. She has it memorised and can quote it by heart.Vera: You must remember the hate campaign that I endured?Employee: Pardon, but I don't know what you're talking about, ma'am.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Not that we see Marga making any big purchases save for a dress for a party, but she tends to be rather out of touch.
- Selective Obliviousness: Nat.
- Sensitive Artist: Marga is actually very sensitive to loud sounds, the treatment of her art pieces, music…
- Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Nat doesn't think Rosa's attitude is doing her any favours.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: One of Rosa's biggest problems with Nat.
- Slimeball: A few, especially men. Most notably Raúl, Victoria's agent; Adela's landlord, and Roberto, Marga's husband.
- Soapbox Sadie: Rosa tries to rein it in, but she is a union representative and she is obviously passionate about environmentalism as well.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Marga would never make Tina wear an uniform. She wants her to be able to express her individuality in her job. She did, however, make a custom robe so that she could wear it around the house.
- Troubled, but Cute: Megan has the looks of a feminine version of this trope.
- Token Evil Teammate: Everyone has crimes or misdemeanours behind them, but there is one crime that's strikingly more grievous than the rest of them. Vera. It's Vera kidnapping a man in his own house, tying him to a table, threatening him, drugging him and planning to make him eat a part of himself.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Nat is the Girly Girl to Rosa, at work, who's always in her green tracksuit, and to Adela, in her neighbourhood.Nat: It's not a party dress. It's prêt-à-porter.
- Unexpectedly Dark Episode: Adela's episode is a sobering look at a humble life in Madrid, with her dealing with her mother's dementia, housing problems in the big cities, and work precariousness.
- Unlucky Everydude: Nat and Rosa are this to an extent, being average employees, but Adela's life in particular feels like a succession and accumulation of awfully aggravating, frustratingly mundane problems coming at her all at once.
- Vanity Is Feminine: The only people we see receiving plastic surgery are Vera and Victoria, who is so used to it that she offers to do Self-Surgery given that it's injections.
- White-Dwarf Starlet: Victoria was a star in 70s Destape (post-Francoist regime) raunchy movies.