With the arrival of a few days of rest, or even a long weekend for the luckiest, it is important to consider: cruise itinerary and maybe consider watching a series more or less simultaneously. Short seasons, miniseries, and limited series dominate production right now, so there’s plenty to choose from. To make it easier for you, here we choose five new games with which no one will waste their well-deserved free time – the first of which is pure innovation.
1. ‘The Walk-in’ (Movie, 5 45-minute episodes; available starting Tuesday the 5th)
Big Stephen GrahamGuaranteed quality of British TV series (let’s remember those times) ‘line of duty’, ‘virtues’, ‘Pointed Blinders’ or others) plays a fascinating real-life character in this miniseries: neo-Nazi Matthew Collins, an informer for the National Front who, after hiding for several years in Australia, becomes an activist against the far right. HOPE is not hate, it is collective. As the series explains to us, in 2017 Collins orchestrated the movements of a mole who infiltrated National Action, or the ‘entry’ of the title, as he prepared for the murder of a Labor MP. As if Graham’s guarantee of quality wasn’t enough, the script is written by Jeff Pope, who was nominated for an Oscar for the movie ‘Philomena’.
2. ‘Criminals’ (Disney+, 8 one-hour episodes)
On the other hand, we’re not leaving the UK to recommend ‘Criminals’, a rather globe-trotting ‘thriller’ filmed in Canada and a pretend province of Barcelona, as well as France and Italy. British director puts a masterful new twist on the heist subgenre J Blakeson (“I care so much”) tells how, three years after a major coup, members of a criminal gang face the threat of a killer who begins to eliminate them one by one. The person with the most to lose is Joe (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Curtis from ‘Misfits’), their new family paradise in Washington is cracked open by these belated replicas of another life. There’s intrigue and action here, as well as believable human emotion.
3. ‘Scott Pilgrim makes a splash’ (Netflix, 8 half-hour episodes)
If there has been talk of a boom in television animation lately, this is thanks to ambitious projects. ‘Blue-Eyed Samurai’ or this ‘Scott Pilgrim makes the breakthrough’, a surprising variation on a story that already gave us an excellent collection of comics, a cult movie Edgar Wright and an addictive video game. This series, which intersects so many different nations as can only be imagined in this age of global platforms, was written together with Canadian writers. Bryan Lee O’MalleyIt was animated by Science SARU, the Japanese studio that created the original comics and reserved the Spanish comics. Abel Gongora management tasks. Its eight chapters are a display of imagination and a sincere and heartfelt love letter to popular culture, especially the culture of the nineties and two thousandths.
4. ‘Cooking with chemistry’ (Apple TV+, 8 45-minute episodes)
Some doomsayers talk about the decline of the so-called ‘prestige’ series; Among them is film historian Peter Biskind (“Silent Bikers, Wild Bulls”), who has the courage to focus his new book on this idea. But there are still manufacturers and platforms that aim to make thoughtful products aimed at thinking adults. The Apple TV+ catalog makes it clear that its latest offerings include this well-respected adaptation of the novel. bonnie garmus about chemistry (Brie Larson(who was also a producer on the series) became a television chief. Her recipes are great lessons in science and feminism.
5. ‘Blue lights’ (Movistar Plus+, 6 one-hour episodes)
In this selection of short but also very big series, we did not miss some of the six-episode detective productions that come to us regularly from Great Britain. This year’s most special, ‘Blue Lights’, deals realistically and emotionally with the daily life of the fictional Blackthorn police station (Belfast), where we see three rookies from the Police Force trying to complete their mission. probationary Northern Ireland Police: Single mother Grace (Sian Brooke, Queen Aemma Arryn from ‘The House of the Dragon’); young Catholic but slightly rebellious Annie (Katherine Devlin) and the slightly socially awkward Tommy (debutant Nathan Braniff), overseen by old, live-blooded wolves. No character is less than three-dimensional; Nor are they the villains of a mob violence plot that echoes old disagreements between Catholics and Protestants.