Dear Killer Nannies, a new dramatic series inspired by the childhood and adolescence of Juan Pablo Escobar, will premiere on April 1, 2026 on Disney+. Debuted at Séries Mania, this Colombian-American production tells the story from Pablo Escobar’s son’s perspective, as the image of a powerful, protective father begins to crack under the realities of the narcotics trade and the sicarios surrounding him.
Dear Killer Nannies
Series | 2026
Season 1 available on Disney+ on April 1, 2026
Drama | 8 episodes of 35 minutes
Created by Sebastián Ortega, Juan Pablo Escobar, Pablo Farina | Starring Janer Villareal, Miguel Tamayo, Miguel Angel Garcia
Original title: Dear Killer Nannies
Countries of origin: Colombia, United States
The series follows Juampi, a shy kid growing up amid Medellín’s opulence, convinced that his father is both a successful businessman and a champion of the poor. Constantly orbiting him are the men tasked with Pablo Escobar’s security, whom the boy takes for everyday companions. As he grows up, he realizes these familiar figures are actually hitmen, and that the world he was raised in rests on the era’s most feared criminal empire.
The project stands out for its point of view: rather than a story centered on the rise of the drug lord, Dear Killer Nannies focuses on the perspective of a son trapped in a world of privilege, violence, and façades. This approach shifts the narrative toward the intimate, showing how the war waged around Pablo Escobar reverberates through the family unit and into the childhood of Juan Pablo Escobar himself.
The series is produced by Telemundo Studios, Underground Producciones, and TIS Studios. Sebastián Ortega serves as showrunner, while the episodes are directed by Pablo Fendrik and Felipe Cano Ibáñez. The writing is by Alejandro Quesada, Ana María Parra, Martín Méndez, and Sebastián Ortega. Filming took place in Bogotá and Medellín, anchoring the production in the very places linked to the story.
The main cast brings together Janer Villareal, Miguel Tamayo, Miguel Ángel “Orion” García, Laura Rodríguez, Juanita Molina, Julián Zuluaga, Rafael Zea, Danharry Colorado, Julián Bustamante, Julián Díaz, Melanie Dell’Olmo, Ella Becerra, and Victoria Hernández. John Leguizamo stars as Pablo Escobar Gaviria in this series, which blends a family saga, a crime chronicle, and a fresh take on a familiar trajectory told from the inside.
In eight 35-minute episodes, Dear Killer Nannies stages the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s through a family memory scarred by political and criminal violence. The release date announced by Disney+ cements the series’ status as one of the platform’s international premieres for spring 2026.
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