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* PairTheSuitors: An interesting example, since it happens posthumously. Óscar was married to Alejandra and had a long-standing affair with Verónica, and after his death Alejandra and Verónica develop a relationship, [[spoiler:and end the series [[HasTwoMommies as a family with Sol]]]].
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* TriangRelations:
** Type 7 between Óscar, Alejandra, and Verónica, though it later becomes Type 8 post-humously when Alejandra and Verónica develop a relationship after Óscar's death.
** Type 7 with shades of Type 8 between Alejandra, Verónica, and Conrado. [[spoiler:Ultimately resolved with Alex choosing Verónica. However, she'd have been happy for it to turn into {{polyamory}}, but Conrado says he's not wired for that kind of relationship, and bows out.]]
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''El Embarcadero'', known as ''The Pier'' in English, is a Spanish drama series created by Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, which ran on Movistar+ for two seasons in 2019-2020.
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''El Embarcadero'', known as ''The Pier'' in English, is a Spanish drama series created by Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, which ran on Movistar+ for two seasons in 2019-2020.
The series follows Alejandra, a high-profile architect in Valencia who is shattered by the secrets left behind by the death of Óscar, her husband of fifteen years. She discovers that he was leading a double life with another woman, Verónica, in the nearby village of Albufera. She decides to approach the woman under a false identity in order to discover why her husband lived a lie, and what really happened on the fateful night of his death.
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!! ''El Embarcadero'' contains examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:Fran has been in love with Alex for years, but she was with Óscar, and then later Conrado and Verónica.]]
* BadassMoustache: Conrado sports one.
* BestFriend: Katia is Alejandra's.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Alex becomes interested in both Verónica (her late husband's secret lover) and Conrado (the police lieutenant investigating her husband's death), and spends the greater part of season two torn between them. Conrado is a more traditional choice, as a very masculine man who "feels like home" and has more traditional, monogamous views on romance, while Verónica represents Alex's departure from her former, rather conventional life, as a woman and a free spirit with a more bohemian lifestyle. [[spoiler:When forced to choose, she ultimately chooses Verónica, though she would have been open to a polyamourous relationship if Conrado hadn't been too traditional to agree.]]
* ClosetKey: Verónica serves as one for Alex.
* CommonLawMarriage: Since Óscar was already married to Alejandra, he couldn't officially get married to Verónica, but they did unofficially consider themselves married.
* CowboyCop: Conrado tends to be overly aggressive and reckless in his investigations and pursuit of justice, especially after he stops taking his meds.
* CrusadingWidower: Once she figures out that Óscar may have been murdered, Alejandra becomes dedicated to figuring out who killed him and getting justice. Once she reveals her true identity to her, Verónica also joins her in this.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Óscar, at the beginning of the series, though it later looks to have been murder. [[spoiler:Ultimately revealed to have indeed been suicide, because he'd become crushed under the weight of all his lies and alternate lives.]]
** [[spoiler:Conrado's wife committed suicide after being raped.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Andrés manipulates Conrado into attacking Vicent, making it look like he is responsible when Andrés later has Vicent killed.]]
* GlamorousSingleMother: {{Justified}} for the most part because her daughter is in high school and requires less constant oversight, but Katia is able to have a full-time job and (to an extent) a love life while raising Ada.
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Sol gets her "all-girl family" in the series finale, with Verónica and Alex.]]
* IAmNotMyFather: Verónica worries that her mother's madness is in her blood, but ultimately is able to reject that idea when Alex reminds her that she didn't turn out as self-centered and destructive as her own mother, and Sol won't be a scumbag like her father.
* InSeriesNickname: Alejandra is often called Alex, and Verónica is sometimes called Vero.
* LivingADoubleLife: Óscar, with Alejandra and Verónica. Alejandra also does this in the first season when she's pretending to be Martina with Verónica.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Óscar tracked down his [[DisappearedDad father]] to Taracuellos and confronted him.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Alex spends most of the first season grieving for Óscar, often in unhealthy ways.
* NoMedicationForMe: Conrado stops taking his meds toward the end of season one, and becomes much more volatile as a result. [[spoiler:He eventually decides to start taking them again in the series finale after he kills Andrés.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Alejandra and Katia's boss is almost always referred to as "Big Boss." His real name is only used a couple of times over the whole series.
* PairTheSuitors: An interesting example, since it happens posthumously. Óscar was married to Alejandra and had a long-standing affair with Verónica, and after his death Alejandra and Verónica develop a relationship, [[spoiler:and end the series [[HasTwoMommies as a family with Sol]]]].
* {{Polyamory}}: Discussed a lot with regards to Óscar and Alex and Verónica, and later Alex and Verónica and Conrado, but never actually comes to fruition. Vicent also mentions at one point that he was once in a poly relationship with two women, and he sometimes had threesomes with Óscar and Verónica.
* PosthumousCharacter: Óscar's death is what sets the plot in motion, but he's still a central character, with much of the story revolving around unravelling his lies and piecing together who he really was and what really happened.
* SecretIdentity: Alejandra befriends Verónica while hiding the fact that she's Óscar's wife by using the fake identity of Martina, a biologist studying birds in the area. [[spoiler:Óscar also used the fake name Mario in Taracuellos.]]
* SecretKeeper: Conrado knows that Alejandra is not Martina, but he agrees to not reveal the truth to Verónica.
* SecretOtherFamily: The main driving point of the first season's plot is Alejandra's discovery that Óscar had been living a double live with Verónica for eight years, and even had a daughter, Sol, with her.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: Katia has a long-standing affair with Big Boss. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the power dynamic isn't really an issue, and for the most part their affair doesn't affect their work.
* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler:The series ends with Alex, Verónica, and Sol leaving Valencia and Albufera behind to start a new life somewhere else.]]
* StudentTeacherRomance: Ada has a secret relationship with her teacher.
* SympatheticAdulterer: The narrative is surprisingly light on judgment of the various cheaters in the series, though it does explore the emotional toll of guilt it might have on them.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:After Verónica shoots Andrés in the series finale, and it's clear he won't survive the blood loss for long, Conrado takes the gun and kills him personally so that Verónica won't be blamed.]]
* TriangRelations:
** Type 7 between Óscar, Alejandra, and Verónica, though it later becomes Type 8 post-humously when Alejandra and Verónica develop a relationship after Óscar's death.
** Type 7 with shades of Type 8 between Alejandra, Verónica, and Conrado. [[spoiler:Ultimately resolved with Alex choosing Verónica. However, she'd have been happy for it to turn into {{polyamory}}, but Conrado says he's not wired for that kind of relationship, and bows out.]]
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''El Embarcadero'', known as ''The Pier'' in English, is a Spanish drama series created by Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, which ran on Movistar+ for two seasons in 2019-2020.
The series follows Alejandra, a high-profile architect in Valencia who is shattered by the secrets left behind by the death of Óscar, her husband of fifteen years. She discovers that he was leading a double life with another woman, Verónica, in the nearby village of Albufera. She decides to approach the woman under a false identity in order to discover why her husband lived a lie, and what really happened on the fateful night of his death.
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!! ''El Embarcadero'' contains examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:Fran has been in love with Alex for years, but she was with Óscar, and then later Conrado and Verónica.]]
* BadassMoustache: Conrado sports one.
* BestFriend: Katia is Alejandra's.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Alex becomes interested in both Verónica (her late husband's secret lover) and Conrado (the police lieutenant investigating her husband's death), and spends the greater part of season two torn between them. Conrado is a more traditional choice, as a very masculine man who "feels like home" and has more traditional, monogamous views on romance, while Verónica represents Alex's departure from her former, rather conventional life, as a woman and a free spirit with a more bohemian lifestyle. [[spoiler:When forced to choose, she ultimately chooses Verónica, though she would have been open to a polyamourous relationship if Conrado hadn't been too traditional to agree.]]
* ClosetKey: Verónica serves as one for Alex.
* CommonLawMarriage: Since Óscar was already married to Alejandra, he couldn't officially get married to Verónica, but they did unofficially consider themselves married.
* CowboyCop: Conrado tends to be overly aggressive and reckless in his investigations and pursuit of justice, especially after he stops taking his meds.
* CrusadingWidower: Once she figures out that Óscar may have been murdered, Alejandra becomes dedicated to figuring out who killed him and getting justice. Once she reveals her true identity to her, Verónica also joins her in this.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Óscar, at the beginning of the series, though it later looks to have been murder. [[spoiler:Ultimately revealed to have indeed been suicide, because he'd become crushed under the weight of all his lies and alternate lives.]]
** [[spoiler:Conrado's wife committed suicide after being raped.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Andrés manipulates Conrado into attacking Vicent, making it look like he is responsible when Andrés later has Vicent killed.]]
* GlamorousSingleMother: {{Justified}} for the most part because her daughter is in high school and requires less constant oversight, but Katia is able to have a full-time job and (to an extent) a love life while raising Ada.
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Sol gets her "all-girl family" in the series finale, with Verónica and Alex.]]
* IAmNotMyFather: Verónica worries that her mother's madness is in her blood, but ultimately is able to reject that idea when Alex reminds her that she didn't turn out as self-centered and destructive as her own mother, and Sol won't be a scumbag like her father.
* InSeriesNickname: Alejandra is often called Alex, and Verónica is sometimes called Vero.
* LivingADoubleLife: Óscar, with Alejandra and Verónica. Alejandra also does this in the first season when she's pretending to be Martina with Verónica.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Óscar tracked down his [[DisappearedDad father]] to Taracuellos and confronted him.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Alex spends most of the first season grieving for Óscar, often in unhealthy ways.
* NoMedicationForMe: Conrado stops taking his meds toward the end of season one, and becomes much more volatile as a result. [[spoiler:He eventually decides to start taking them again in the series finale after he kills Andrés.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Alejandra and Katia's boss is almost always referred to as "Big Boss." His real name is only used a couple of times over the whole series.
* PairTheSuitors: An interesting example, since it happens posthumously. Óscar was married to Alejandra and had a long-standing affair with Verónica, and after his death Alejandra and Verónica develop a relationship, [[spoiler:and end the series [[HasTwoMommies as a family with Sol]]]].
* {{Polyamory}}: Discussed a lot with regards to Óscar and Alex and Verónica, and later Alex and Verónica and Conrado, but never actually comes to fruition. Vicent also mentions at one point that he was once in a poly relationship with two women, and he sometimes had threesomes with Óscar and Verónica.
* PosthumousCharacter: Óscar's death is what sets the plot in motion, but he's still a central character, with much of the story revolving around unravelling his lies and piecing together who he really was and what really happened.
* SecretIdentity: Alejandra befriends Verónica while hiding the fact that she's Óscar's wife by using the fake identity of Martina, a biologist studying birds in the area. [[spoiler:Óscar also used the fake name Mario in Taracuellos.]]
* SecretKeeper: Conrado knows that Alejandra is not Martina, but he agrees to not reveal the truth to Verónica.
* SecretOtherFamily: The main driving point of the first season's plot is Alejandra's discovery that Óscar had been living a double live with Verónica for eight years, and even had a daughter, Sol, with her.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: Katia has a long-standing affair with Big Boss. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the power dynamic isn't really an issue, and for the most part their affair doesn't affect their work.
* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler:The series ends with Alex, Verónica, and Sol leaving Valencia and Albufera behind to start a new life somewhere else.]]
* StudentTeacherRomance: Ada has a secret relationship with her teacher.
* SympatheticAdulterer: The narrative is surprisingly light on judgment of the various cheaters in the series, though it does explore the emotional toll of guilt it might have on them.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:After Verónica shoots Andrés in the series finale, and it's clear he won't survive the blood loss for long, Conrado takes the gun and kills him personally so that Verónica won't be blamed.]]
* TriangRelations:
** Type 7 between Óscar, Alejandra, and Verónica, though it later becomes Type 8 post-humously when Alejandra and Verónica develop a relationship after Óscar's death.
** Type 7 with shades of Type 8 between Alejandra, Verónica, and Conrado. [[spoiler:Ultimately resolved with Alex choosing Verónica. However, she'd have been happy for it to turn into {{polyamory}}, but Conrado says he's not wired for that kind of relationship, and bows out.]]
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