The first season of Maradona, Blessed Dream landed on Prime Video on October 29, 2021. Before the series premiere, Amazon confirmed a second 10-episode season. That second season never arrived.
Trailer, via Prime Video.
From Villa Fiorito to the World Stage
Maradona, Blessed Dream — Maradona, sueño bendito in its original Spanish — is a biographical drama about Diego Armando Maradona, the Argentine footballer who came out of Villa Fiorito, one of the poorest barrios of Buenos Aires, and ended up with a place in football history. The series covers the arc you already know: the boy with a dream, the international glory, the drugs, the sex, the public scrutiny. It is 10 episodes, first aired October 29, 2021, last aired November 26, 2021, and it is a drama in the plain sense — no documentary framing, no talking heads, just the life played out by actors.
The casting is the show’s most interesting decision. Maradona is not one performer but four. Juan Cruz Romero plays the child; Nicolás Goldschmidt, Nazareno Casero and Juan Palomino each take a version of the adult Diego. That structure is a bet that the man changed enough between stages that no single actor could carry him, and it gives the series its spine.
Four Diegos, One Claudia
Around that central figure sits a deep bench. Julieta Cardinali plays Claudia. Mercedes Morán plays La Tota, with Rita Cortese as Doña Tota. Jean Pierre Noher is Guillermo Coppola. Fernán Mirás plays Francis Cornejo, Gabriel Schultz plays Yayo Trotta, and José María Monje and Claudio Rissi both take on Diego Maradona Padre, “Don Diego,” at different ages.
The Wikipedia entry for the series lists a wider cast — Laura Esquivel, Peter Lanzani, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Marcelo Mazzarello, Pepe Monje — so the credited ensemble runs beyond the names above. That breadth is the show’s method: it treats Maradona’s life as a world with a population, not a solo performance.
The Dispute That Ended Season 2
Here is the part that matters more than anything on screen. In 2022, it was revealed that the second season had been delayed because Claudia Villafañe and Guillermo Coppola were suing for over $10 million in damages. Their claim: they were not allowed to review the scripts for the first season, and therefore did not sign the releases needed for those parts of their lives to be shown. How that suit was resolved is still unresolved in the source; no outcome is given.
In 2024, actor Nazareno Casero said a second season was scrapped because he could not resolve the legal issues. That is where the trail ends.
Read that sequence again. The people closest to Maradona — his ex-wife and a figure portrayed in the first season — say they never approved how they were written. The show went ahead anyway. In 2022, it was in court. By 2024, it was dead.
What the First Season Actually Is
So the first season of Maradona, Blessed Dream is not chapter one of a saga. It is the whole thing, whether Amazon planned it that way or not. That changes how it plays. The 10 episodes cover the full sweep of the synopsis — Villa Fiorito, the international career, the drugs, the scrutiny, a man who played by his own rules regardless of the consequences — and then stop, because there is no more.
Judged on its own, it is a solid, conventional biographical drama with an unusually good central gimmick. The four-actor structure for Diego is the reason to watch. It lets the series show a person becoming unrecognizable to himself without asking one performer to fake the whole journey.
The Numbers
- Score: 7.4 out of 10, TMDB audience score, 650 votes
- Network: Prime Video
- Premiere: October 29, 2021
- Finale: November 26, 2021
- Episodes: 10, across 1 season
- Genre: Drama
- Second season: Confirmed before the premiere, delayed in 2022 by the lawsuit, scrapped by 2024
- Damages sought: Over $10 million, by Claudia Villafañe and Guillermo Coppola
- Legal outcome: Still unresolved; the source gives no ruling
Our Call
The 7.4 is fair, and the score is not the story. What happened to Maradona, Blessed Dream is the story. A major streamer greenlit two seasons before the first one aired, then was sued by two real people depicted in it, then the second season was scrapped. The suit itself is still unresolved in the source — no ruling, no settlement, no dismissal.
The show’s defenders would say the first season stands alone, and it does. But the unresolved lawsuit is the part worth watching. Villafañe and Coppola are not minor figures here — Cardinali and Noher play them, and they are central to the story the series tells. When the people you are portraying say they never signed off, and they are asking for over $10 million, you have a problem no amount of casting can fix.
Maradona, Blessed Dream is a competent, watchable drama that got buried by the real world it was based on. That is not a failure of filmmaking. It is a failure of the deal. Watch the 10 episodes for the four Diegos. Remember the second season for the unresolved lawsuit that ended it.
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