‘Cable Girls’ Ending Explained: Will There Be a Season 6? (2024)

Since 2017, Cable Girls (or Las Chicas del Cable) has been one of the most popular Spanish-language shows on Netflix. The series followed a group of friends working as cable operators in 1928 Madrid. Their lives were full of passion, excitement, danger, and a heck of a lot of incredible outfits. However Cable Girls‘s final season premiered on Netflix over the weekend, bringing the story of Lidia (Blanca Suárez), Carlota (Ana Fernández), Marga (Nadia de Santiago), and Oscar (Ana Polvorosa) to a shocking end. Yeah, that was the ending of Cable Girls.

Even though Cable Girls started off as a steamy soap opera set at the height of the roaring ’20s, real Spanish history soon caught up with the show’s characters. By Cable Girls Season 5, the Spanish Civil War had uprooted the characters’ lives, putting some of them on the front lines in the fight against the fascist Nationalist faction. As Cable Girls Season 5 Part 2 (aka “Season 6” on Netflix) opens, Lidia is stuck in a prison camp. Eventually, all her friends serve time under the cruel control of Carmen (Concha Velasco), culminating in a dangerous prison break in the series finale. The Cable Girls eventually fix it so a train car full of their friends, family, and loved ones are headed to France, where they can all live a better life as refugees (until World War II, I guess). However, the Nationalists catch up with the rebels on the run and Lidia, Marga, Carlota, and Oscar decide to sacrifice themselves for the good of everyone else.

So what exactly happened to the Cable Girls at the end of the Netflix show? Did the Cable Girls…die? Is Cable Girls based on a true story? And will there be a Cable Girls Season 6?

CABLE GIRLS ENDING EXPLAINED: DID THE CABLE GIRLS ALL DIE?

Hey, yeah, so let’s get this out of the way: the Cable Girls (and Cable Guy, if we’re including Oscar) are dead. After arranging a massive prison camp break, it seems like our heroines have finally secured their happy endings. However, when the train they’re on, with lovers, children, and friends in tow, is stopped by a military barricade, the Cable Girls put together a daring plan to save the day.

Lidia, Carlota, Marga, and Oscar all surrender themselves to the authorities. Well, technically they argue they are making a deal, but they essentially surrender themselves. Once inside the station, they trick the military men into passing around a journal with state secrets that Lidia purloined from the prison camp. While they ostensibly are trying to use this as leverage to save everyone, what they’ve actually done is snuck a powder onto the book’s pages. Once touched, this powder renders a person unconscious.

With their enemies out cold, our heroines steal their guns and lift the barrier blocking the train. While it seems like they might just have the opportunity to run to the train in time, a new group of Nationalist soldiers arrives and opens fire. The girls and Oscar take cover in a shack. Lidia explains in voice over that she could see their lives leading to this moment. We get a montage of earlier Cable Girls scenes and an emotional moment where the foursome pledge their love to each other.

In the final moments of Cable Girls, Oscar, Carlota, Marga, and Lidia exit the shack to face down the soldiers. The show cuts to black, so we don’t see them mowed down with machine guns, but the next screen all but confirms this, saying: “The cable girls gave their lives to make a better world.” Cable Girls then pays homage to the many women who have given their lives throughout history to fight for a more equal world. We next see that their loved ones escaped to freedom.

IS NETFLIX’S CABLE GIRLS BASED ON A TRUE STORY?

Uh…not really? The sudsy, pulpy narrative of Cable Girls is a work of fiction. That said, many of its settings and big story swerves are based on some fact. In the 1920s, Madrid did get modern telecommunications, sparking a new industry that employed women as “cable girls.” There were also transgender people and hom*osexual couples in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s. And the Spanish Civil War did suck. Prison camps existed and people gave their lives in the fight for freedom.

So while Lidia, Carlota, Marga, and Oscar are fictional characters, there were people who were killed for resisting the Nationalist party in 1930s Spain.

HOW MANY SEASONS OF CABLE GIRLS ARE THERE ON NETFLIX?

There are technically only five seasons of Cable Girls on Netflix. The fifth and final season of Cable Girls was divided into two parts, presented as “The Final Season: Part 1” and “The Final Season: Part 2,” respectively. However, because of the way Netflix structures its seasons, you might see “The Final Season: Part 2” labeled as “Season 6” on Netflix.

However, there is no Cable Girls Season 6. There are just five seasons of Cable Girls and the series is officially over. You know, because the Cable Girls and one Cable Guy are dead.

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