# HBO Max Psycho Thriller ‘Infamy,’ With ‘She Walks in Darkness’ Star Susana Abaitua, Set for South Festival Premiere

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/hbo-max-psycho-thriller-infamy-with-she-walks-in-darkness-star-susana-abaitua-set-for-south-festival-premiere/
- Published: 2026-10-27T18:28:35+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T21:55:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/hbo-max-infamy-susana-abaitua-south-international-series-1236931275/
- Topics: Business, Celebrity, Entertainment, Europe, Film, Markets, TV, World

## Key points

- *Infamy* premieres on HBO Max on 13 November.
- Susana Abaitua plays a lawyer investigating two girls’ disappearance.
- The case draws her into confronting her own past.

## Summary

HBO Max will launch *Infamy*, a six-episode psychological thriller, on 13 November, with its first public showing at the South International Series Festival in Cádiz. The series follows a lawyer’s attempt to solve a decades-old missing-persons case, a pursuit that connects the mystery to her own painful past.

Susana Abaitua plays Emma Cruz, who becomes fixated on the disappearance of two girls from her hometown 20 years earlier and the childhood death of her sister, for which she blames herself. The series is based on Ledicia Costas’ book and was filmed in Bizkaia, in Spain’s Basque Country; Agustina Macri and Beatriz Sanchís co-directed it.

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