Hulu had introduced its newest Latin American series with a first-look tease that played like a coming-of-age story told from inside a collapsing perimeter. “Dear Killer Nannies” was described as being inspired by Juan Pablo Escobar’s childhood and adolescence, reframing the Pablo Escobar mythology through the kid who had to live in its blast radius—and through the men whose job was to keep the family “safe,” even as they embodied the danger closing in.
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The logline positioned the series through Juampi’s perspective: the child son of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, watching his world fracture as his father’s criminal empire expands. The hook is blunt and unsettling, and the title leans into it: the hitmen around the family effectively become Juampi’s constant companions, functioning as “nannies” in the sense that they’re always there—guarding, hovering, shaping the atmosphere of the house—until loyalty and fear blur into the texture of daily life.
Rather than sell the show as another cartel chronicle, the teaser language makes it sound like a story about the human cost of proximity: childhood in a state of permanent alertness, innocence eroded by routine exposure to violence, and a family unit forced to normalize what should never be normal. In that framing, “Dear Killer Nannies” isn’t treating history as a playground; it’s treating it as inherited trauma, with Juampi growing up while the adults around him turn the world into an armed checkpoint.
John Leguizamo is set to play Escobar, with Janer Villareal playing teenage Juan Pablo and Miguel Tamayo and Miguel Ángel García also credited as young Juan Pablo. The cast list also includes Laura Rodríguez as Victoria Henao, plus Juanita Molina, Julián Zuluaga, Rafael Zea, Danharry Colorado, Julián Bustamante, Julián Díaz, and Melanie Dell’ Olmo. The series additionally features the special participation of Andrés Delgado, Carmen Electra, and Leguizamo.
Behind the scenes, the project is produced by Telemundo Studios, Underground Producciones, and TIS Studios, with Sebastián Ortega serving as showrunner. The materials say the series is inspired by Juan Pablo Escobar’s accounts, with Escobar involved in sharing experiences for the show, and that he created the series alongside Ortega and Pablo Farina.
The teaser is available now, and the pitch is already clear: a boy’s-eye view of a legacy the world mythologized, filtered through the people hired to protect him—people who also make it impossible for him to forget what his father is building.
Watch the new teaser below.
