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Netflix's New Mexican Romance Series 'Lovesick' Release Date, Cast, and Plot

Emilia’s impossible choice between two men and medicine drives the Netflix series Lovesick this September.

Netflix's Lovesick Credit: Netflix

Netflix is not simply adding another costume romance to its September calendar. Lovesick, the streamer’s Mexican romance series adapted from Ángeles Mastretta’s 1996 novel Mal de amores, follows Emilia Sauri as she tries to become a doctor while two men and a revolution compete for the rest of her life.

Catalina Aguilar Mastretta directed, produced, and adapted the seven-episode series from her mother’s book, keeping the story inside a family that has lived with these characters for decades. Renata Vaca, Juan Pablo Fuentes, and Iván Amozurrutia lead the cast as Emilia, the revolutionary who marked her childhood, and the physician who wants peace more than glory.


When is the Netflix release date of Lovesick?

Netflix will release Lovesick worldwide on September 2, 2026. Every episode of the seven-part season becomes available on that date rather than arriving week by week.

The official title page already identifies the show as a 2026 drama with a TV-MA rating. Subscribers can set a reminder on the series page before the premiere.

Netflix's Lovesick Credit: Netflix

The date places the series in early September after an official trailer has already previewed Emilia’s divided loyalties. Netflix is presenting the season as a complete drop so viewers can move through her medical ambition and her two attachments without a weekly pause.

A one-season run of seven episodes signals a contained adaptation rather than an open-ended telenovela. The schedule concentrates Emilia’s passage from youth to adulthood into a single, compressed arc set during the Mexican Revolution.

The global release matters because the story is written in Spanish and rooted in a Mexican novel that has circulated for thirty years. International viewers will meet that book through a series built in Mexico and delivered on the same day in every Netflix territory.

Is there a trailer for Lovesick?

Yes, Netflix Latinoamérica has released the official trailer for Lovesick. The two-minute preview introduces Emilia Sauri’s struggle to claim a future as a doctor while the Mexican Revolution and two competing loves close in around her.


Who are the cast of Lovesick?

Lovesick stars Renata Vaca as Emilia Sauri, Juan Pablo Fuentes as Daniel Cuenca, and Iván Amozurrutia as Antonio Zavalza. The three performers carry the triangle that forces Emilia to measure love against the profession she refuses to abandon.

Renata Vaca plays Emilia Sauri, a young woman who wants her vocation, her freedom, and her right to love without limits in a society that rarely accounts for women. Vaca previously appeared in Netflix’s science fiction film Our Times and the action drama Pedal to Metal, and she has also been seen in Saw X, the telenovela La Reina Soy Yo, the thriller Trust, and the Apple TV+ series Midnight Family.

Renata Vaca in Apple TV+'s Midnight Family Credit: Renata Vaca in Apple TV+'s Midnight Family

Juan Pablo Fuentes portrays Daniel Cuenca, the adventurer and revolutionary who shaped Emilia’s childhood dreams and then returned as a man formed by war. Fuentes is known to Netflix audiences as Lucas in Bandidos and as Tomás Durán in Pact of Silence, and his other credits include Isla Brava, The Talent, and Untamed Royals.

Juan Pablo Fuentes in Bandidos Credit: Netflix

Iván Amozurrutia stars as Antonio Zavalza, the doctor who seeks peace in the middle of war and offers Emilia a life organized around care rather than combat. Amozurrutia has built a substantial Netflix résumé through The Manny, Fake Profile, Dark Desire, and The Five Juanas, roles that now give way to a quieter period performance.

Iván Amozurrutia in Netflix's High Heat. Credit: Iván Amozurrutia in Netflix's High Heat. Photo: Ana York/Netflix

The ensemble also includes:

  • Cassandra Ciangherotti

  • Diana Bovio

  • Miguel Rodarte

  • Juan Pablo Medina

  • Humberto Zurita

  • Sofía Carrera

  • Alejandro Puente as Salvador Cuenca

  • Alessandro De Gennaro as Juan

  • Cinthya Hernández as Carmela

Those supporting players fill out Emilia’s family, the Cuenca circle, and the medical and political world that surrounds her. Several of them are veteran figures in Mexican film and television, which gives the household scenes and the wartime passages additional weight.

Humberto Zurita and Miguel Rodarte bring decades of screen authority to the older generation around Emilia. Cassandra Ciangherotti, Diana Bovio, Juan Pablo Medina, and Sofía Carrera deepen the social web that constrains her studies and her attachments.

Alejandro Puente appears as Salvador Cuenca, tying Daniel’s family more closely to Emilia’s fate as the revolution closes in. Alessandro De Gennaro and Cinthya Hernández complete key supporting roles as Juan and Carmela.


What's the story of Lovesick?

Netflix places Emilia’s private conflict against the public violence of the Mexican Revolution. The official series description frames her dilemma as a collision between two loves and a vocation that the age around her does not easily grant.

Netflix shared a description of Lovesick:

Emilia faces the most difficult dilemma of her life: loving two men without giving up her dream of studying medicine. Daniel Cuenca (Juan Pablo Fuentes), the adventurer and revolutionary who shaped her childhood dreams, and Antonio Zavalza (Iván Amozurrutia), the doctor seeking peace amidst war, force her to choose between her feelings and her aspirations.

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Lovesick arrives on Netflix as a seven-episode adaptation that keeps Emilia’s impossible choice at the center of both the romance and the revolution. The complete season drops on September 2, 2026, giving viewers the full arc of a woman determined to claim her future as a doctor while two very different men and a country in upheaval press in from every side.

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