Supermax is a television series created and directed by Daniel Burman and co-produced by Mediaset España Comunicación, Central Globo de Produção, Televisión Azteca, Teledoce, and Televisión Pública Argentina.

[1][2][3] The series follows the story of eight characters who purge their guilty for criminal acts they have committed in the past in a reality show recorded in an abandoned high security prison, where years before there was a big slaughter.

[4][5] The series premiered on September 15, 2017 on HBO Spain,[4] later to be released on October 5, 2017 on Televisión Azteca.

[6] The series revolves around a maximum security prison that was the epicenter of a bloodshed in the 1990s, which caused its closure.

Twenty years later, a producer decides to rent the space to produce an extreme reality show where eight eccentric people who are at a crossroads in their ordinary lives are chosen to play a game and find a way out.