The ten episodes of My Daughter’s Father (El Otro Padre) arrived on Netflix on July 22, 2026, and if you’ve already burned through all of them, you’re probably sitting with the same question that hovers over every new series that drops its entire season at once: Is there more coming, or was that it?
The short answer, as of now, is that Netflix hasn’t said. There’s been no renewal announcement, no cancellation notice, no leak about writers already breaking stories for a second season. The silence isn’t unusual—Netflix rarely announces renewals on premiere day, and the platform tends to let the data accumulate for weeks or even months before making a call. But the absence of news leaves the show in that familiar limbo where fans refresh their feeds, hoping for confirmation and find nothing.
Here’s what we actually know, what the signs suggest, and what a second season might look like if it happens.
Will My Daughter’s Father Get a Season 2? The Facts on the Table!
My Daughter’s Father premiered with all ten episodes available immediately, the standard Netflix model for a drama series. The episodes run between 40 and 49 minutes each, which makes the season a substantial binge but not an exhausting one. The show is listed as a Mexican drama series, created by Roberto Stopello and produced by Mar Abierto Productions. Crucially, Netflix is not labeling it as a miniseries or a limited series. The promotional material refers to “Season 1,” not “The Complete Series” or any of the other phrases the platform uses when a show is designed to end after a single run.
That distinction matters. Netflix has been known to retroactively label finished shows as miniseries when they decide not to continue them, but they haven’t done that here. The door is open. It just hasn’t been walked through yet.
No writers’ room has been announced for Season 2. No cast members have publicly confirmed they’ve signed on for additional episodes. No production dates have been scheduled. Any release date you see floating around online is speculation, not information. If the show gets renewed, the earliest realistic premiere window would be late 2027, with 2028 being more likely if the renewal takes a while to finalize or if the production needs to coordinate the schedules of a large ensemble cast.
What Netflix Is Looking At
The decision will come down to numbers. Netflix cares about how many accounts start the series, what percentage of those viewers make it to the final episode, how many total hours are watched, and how long the show stays in the platform’s Top 10 rankings. They also weigh those metrics against the production cost. A relatively contained family drama like My Daughter’s Father doesn’t need to pull Stranger Things numbers to justify a renewal, but it does need to demonstrate that it found an audience large enough to warrant the investment.
The analysis typically takes a few weeks. Sometimes, for shows that perform well right out of the gate, the renewal comes within a month. Sometimes it takes two or three months. Sometimes the show just quietly fades from the platform’s promotional rotation, and the absence of news becomes the news.
Did the First Season Tell a Complete Story?
This is where the renewal question gets interesting. The first season of My Daughter’s Father does something that can cut both ways for a potential continuation: it resolves its central conflict. Julieta’s kidney failure, the search for a compatible donor, the revelation that Emilio is her biological father, and Emilio’s eventual decision to donate—all of that concludes in the finale. The medical emergency that drove the entire plot is addressed. The big secret is out. The question the title poses—who is Julieta’s father? gets answered.
That resolution could make the case for a second season harder, or it could make it easier. A show that wraps up its main storyline doesn’t leave audiences feeling cheated if it never comes back. But a show that wraps up its main storyline while leaving its characters in an emotionally volatile, unresolved state also has a natural springboard for continuation.
Where a Second Season Could Go
The finale answers the medical question, but it leaves the human wreckage largely untouched. Ricardo knows he’s not Julieta’s biological father, and he’s made peace with that in the sense that he’s still her dad in every way that matters. But his marriage to Maca is shattered. Twenty years of lies don’t get fixed by a successful transplant. Maca has to live with the consequences of her choices, not just with Ricardo but with everyone who trusted her. Emilio, meanwhile, has been thrust into a family he didn’t know he had, and his own wife and children are dealing with the fallout of that revelation.
Those are rich seams for a second season to mine. How does Julieta recover, physically and emotionally, with two father figures now in her life? How does Ricardo rebuild his sense of self when the biological fact of his paternity has been stripped away, but the emotional reality remains intact? What does Emilio’s relationship with his new daughter look like after the transplant, when the crisis has passed, and the awkward, everyday work of getting to know each other begins?
The show also has a broader ensemble whose stories could expand. Bernardo, Gustavo, María, and Victoria exist in the orbit of the central family drama, and their relationships are shaped by the decisions the adults made before they were born. Structurally, My Daughter’s Father is built like a contemporary telenovela: a central secret trigger cascading conflicts across multiple relationships, and those conflicts generate enough narrative energy to sustain either a long arc or multiple seasons. The first season burned through the initial secret. A second season would need either to follow the consequences deeper or introduce a new destabilizing element—another secret, another crisis, another decision that forces the Sotomayor and Martínez families back into each other’s orbits.
The Bottom Line
Right now, there is no Season 2 of My Daughter’s Father. The show hasn’t been canceled, and it hasn’t been renewed. It exists in the same waiting room where most Netflix shows spend their first few weeks, dependent on an algorithm’s verdict and the whims of a global audience that has more options than it knows what to do with.
If the viewership is there, the renewal will probably come. The show was designed with enough open-ended emotional threads to support continuation, and Netflix didn’t brand it as a limited series. If the viewership isn’t there, the first season works as a self-contained story—messy, unresolved in the way real life is unresolved, but complete enough to satisfy.
For now, the only thing to do is wait. Netflix will make its decision, and when it does, the news will spread fast. Until then, the Sotomayor and Martínez families are frozen in the aftermath of their crisis, and the rest of us are left wondering whether we’ll ever get to see what happens next.
