Netflix's Spanish Period Drama 'The Lady's Companion' Looks Colorful & Charming

There are plenty of reasons to be annoyed with Netflix these days, from the streamer's seemingly endless price increases and questionable recommendation algorithm to its penchant for canceling series before they get a chance to grow an audience (cough Dead Boy Detectives cough) or because they're seen as too expensive to bankroll for more than a season or two and they're not named Stranger Things. But, credit where it's due: Netflix has absolutely put its money where its mouth is when it comes to supporting its international production arms and properties.

Some of the best shows on Netflix at the moment hail from countries outside the United States, and I'm not just talking about the international juggernaut that is Squid Game. From charming Italian legal drama The Law According to Lidia Poët to lush period German historical The Empress and its sumptuous Colombian adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the streamer is consistently putting out bangers in what feels like every language.

The trend is set to continue this spring with the arrival of the buzzy new series The Leopard, but the sprawling Italian epic is not the only international period drama in March. Spanish series The Lady's Companion is also set to premiere, and its first images promise a delightful romantic comedy of matchmaking, manners, and appropriately colorful costumes in late nineteenth-century Madrid.