A new year in Topomorto
Netflix has dated season two of Old Dog, New Tricks for January 1, 2027. Luis Zahera returns as Antón, a veterinarian whose niece Uxía, played by Lucía Caraballo, joins his practice with a different approach to animal care. That is a sharper starting point than merely sending a familiar character back to work. The two must occupy the same professional space, so neither can dismiss a disagreement as someone else's problem. Because they are relatives, a small dispute over a patient can also expose an older expectation about who gets to be heard.
Their different habits may matter most when neither can solve a difficult case alone. The contrast can carry comedy if each animal's case makes them weigh the other person's evidence instead of merely trading slogans. A veterinarian cannot simply ignore behavior, and a behavior specialist cannot wish away a physical injury. Both may be useful while their pride makes cooperation difficult. A quick conversion in which one person is always right would waste the productive tension. The more telling outcome may be a case in which both make a good observation but neither accepts how the other reached it.
Success brings a stranger problem
The season also gives Antón, Uxía and Mike a pet burial service, whose unexpected success brings a new problem into town. This is a revealing business for a comedy about care. People who lose an animal need practical help, but they also need someone to understand what that companion meant to them. The partners may agree on a price or procedure and still disagree about how to meet a grieving owner. A scene at the service could therefore test their empathy more sharply than another argument in a consultation room. A customer cannot be reduced to a case file or a sales opportunity.
The town's change matters as much as the possible mystery. A man who has finally found a place there may experience newcomers as a threat even when they are doing nothing wrong. If the show uses that insecurity, its jokes about trends can reveal a character instead of merely mocking modern habits. The pet burial service likewise gives it a test: does prosperity make Antón more attentive to the people around him, or does he begin to defend the business as another badge of personal success? The premise can answer that through behavior, without a speech about growth.
Three conflicts in one small town
Professional disagreement, family history and a thriving side business can pull the comedy in different directions. They will work best when one decision has consequences in all three places. A client who trusts Uxía might bruise Antón's pride; a family argument might affect a diagnosis; a difficult funeral could force both to reconsider how they talk to an owner. That is more demanding than a sequence of isolated comic cases. It also gives Mike a possible task beyond refereeing every disagreement. He may understand a customer whom neither relative has listened to carefully, then have to choose whether to challenge both of them.
The strongest version would let Topomorto feel like a place whose people respond to Antón's choices, not simply a backdrop for his resistance to change. Uxía should have her own blind spots, and Mike should be more than the referee between relatives. Those relationships could give the comedy its bite. The premise gives the comedy room to be funny about expertise, stubbornness and the awkward fact that caring for an animal often means listening closely to its owner too.
The pressure of family
The family connection may make the professional dispute harder to settle. A colleague can leave work and complain at home; Antón and Uxía carry their argument across both places. A veterinary case that ends well might still leave one of them feeling patronized. Conversely, a mistake could travel into a family dinner. That overlap gives the writers a way to make small incidents accumulate across episodes. It will matter more than simply finding a new animal for each comic set piece.