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With 40 degrees in the shade and a global pandemic abroad, there is a plan as refreshing as a dip in the Antarctic Ocean: to recover some of the great series that are hidden in the endless catalogs of digital platforms. Call it a marathon, binge-watching or compulsive binge, as you prefer, the point is to discover (or rediscover) great titles from the 80s, 90s and 2000s.
CRYPT STORIES
Amazing tales
- Where : Filmin
- How long it lasts : 6 seasons, 78 episodes, 35 hours approx. (the 6th is missing)
- Target audience : Admirers of Alfred Hitchcock's The Hour , Rod Serling's Unknown Dimension , and other anthological series.
Voodoo priestesses, human taxidermists and sinister ventriloquists are just a few of the characters that populate this priceless collection of dark fables based, for the most part, on pulp comics from the 50s. Terror, fantasy and humor are intertwined providing hours and hours of Genuine macabre pleasure thanks to the freedom enjoyed by great names in cinema such as Richard Donner, Walter Hill or Robert Zemeckis , with stellar appearances by Hollywood stars such as Tom Hanks, Michael J. Fox, Steve Buscemi, Whoopi Goldberg, Brad Pitt or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tales from the Crypt is uneven, like any anthological series, but without it there would probably be no script turns from friend M. Night Shyamalan or futuristic dystopias from Black Mirror . The seven seasons were broadcast on American television between June 10, 1989 and July 19, 1996. Then came a new version and several movies inspired by the crypt.
THE SHIELD
Los Angeles, city without law
- Where : Movistar +, Sky and Amazon Prime Video.
- How long it lasts : 7 seasons, 88 episodes, 66 hours approx.
- Target audience : As wild as a good shot of tequila, ideal for lovers of police plots and moral dilemmas
¿ The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad ...? There are those who continue to argue about what is the true Rosetta stone of the so-called golden age of television. But many forget one of the series that should appear in all the pools, because it contributed decisively to turning the tables on cable television in the United States: The Shield . We have an unscrupulous antihero, the corrupt cop Vic Mackey (an imperial Michael Chilkis), at the forefront of a shock force that turns Dirty Harry into a children's party entertainer , a camera-in-hand performance that delivers just the right dose. of dirty realism, and scripts capable of dealing with hot topics such as racism, political corruption or police brutality. Many series languish as the seasons pass, The Shield , however, follows the reverse path: its seventh and final season, broadcast in 2008, is a television monument at the height of the greatest.
SEINFELD
The definitive sitcom
- Where: Amazon Prime Video
- How long it lasts: 9 seasons, 180 chapters, 70 hours, approx.
- Target audience: New York comedy addicts, hypochondriacs in general and neurotics in particular
As much as Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld deny that their creation was known as "the series about nothing," the truth is that this monument to television comedy from the 90s was founded on its ability to offer an inexhaustible catalog of jokes and gags from apparently insignificant anecdotes. At a time when series number one was Alf , these two Jewish comedians created the gold standard for sitcoms : four main characters chatting, three or four sets per chapter, and a chemistry between the actors capable of doing ka-boom . A minor character like the Nazi soup maker, who kicks out customers who don't meet his demands, Kramer's recurring clumsiness, George Constance's absurd dilemmas, and Elaine's stinging aftershocks deserve a place of honor in Olympus. television comedies with Cheers, Frasier or The Office.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Intergalactic soap opera
- Where: Amazon Prime Video
- How long it lasts: 1 miniseries + 4 seasons, 74 episodes, 57 hours approx.
- Target audience: Those who make the Vulcan salute and say goodbye with "may the force be with you"
His special effects may have aged worse than Maradona, and his convoluted storyline borders on ridicule in some episodes, but this remake of a late 70s space opera is as addictive as a bucket overflowing with popcorn. Once hooked, its tuning has the same effect on the viewer as the fragrant smell that floods the hall of a cinema. And be careful, because behind that layer of science fiction series B with humanoid robots and post-apocalyptic futures , a high-voltage metaphysical journey beats. Imbued with the post-9/11 spirit, the series becomes grim and hyperrealistic at times, alternating episodes of pure interstellar action with others dedicated to unfolding deep reflections on terrorism, religion, or the purpose of humanity. The 1978 version was, at the time, the highest-budget television series in history.
THE GOOD WIFE
The woman of iron
- Where : Netlix, Movistar and Amazon
- How long it lasts : 7 seasons, 156 episodes, 117 hours approx.
Target audience : Target audience. Anyone with two fingers in front and a minimum of sensitivity.
How do you get a series of 22 episodes per season to maintain the level throughout its seven years of broadcast? That each episode since its premiere at the end of 2009 has the exact quotas of comedy, drama, romance, legal odds and political undertones? That its protagonist, Alicia Florrick , despite her lapses and failures (or precisely because of them), is captivatingly charming? The answers have the marriage formed by Robert and Michelle King , quality assurance as showrunners, capable of turning a procedural series into a feast of original cases and continuous allusions to current political and social issues. In order to understand the United States of the last decade, it is not necessary to resort to the front pages of the newspapers, it is enough to look at this series of lawyers in which a lot of wine is poured and it is said countless times that of "I protest, Your Honor!" Do you earn more? For that we have The Good Fight , its highly recommended spin-off , also written and produced by the King and still in progress.
TWO METERS UNDER EARTH
Death suits you good
- Where : HBO
- How long it lasts : 5 seasons, 63 episodes, 53 hours approx.
Target audience : Non-judgmental people willing to adopt the Fisher family for a time, oddly enough.
If his dialogues are well written, it is quite likely that we end up loving the characters in a series, however despicable they are. After a binge of The Sopranos, for example, it is not uncommon to think that at any moment James Gandolfini will appear opening the fridge in your house to drink milk directly from the tetra-brik. This is what happens with each of the members of the Fisher family, who are in charge of a funeral parlor business with as many defects as virtues; in other words, real like life itself. Alan Ball knew how to press the right notes to tackle a subject as tricky as death without morbid or cheap sentimentality. The opening scenes of each episode are a masterpiece in themselves: small samples of how brutal, fortuitous and absurd it can be to say goodbye to this cruel world . To close as it deserved one of the series that cemented the prestige of HBO, a beautiful, touching and strange ending. Like life. Like death.
THE GILMORE GIRLS
Deep america
- Where : Netflix
- How long it lasts : 7 seasons, 153 episodes, 107 hours approx.
Target audience : Those looking for something light to liven up the summer and lovers of pop references.
Dramedia is a spawn of words, just like joys or jobs. But it is also a very useful term to define series such as The Gilmore Girls , who injects her carefree and comic tone with certain doses of dramatic content to tell the story of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore , a single mother and teenage daughter. In one era, that of the 2000s, dominated by series starring dark male antiheroes and abundant testosterone, it is refreshing to be reunited with these two ingenious women and their everyday problems. Despite the occasional excesses of glucose, the series manages to get around the cheesy with an unsatisfying vision of motherhood, family relationships and class differences, relying on a soundtrack that would make any music lover succumb : Carole King, PJ Harvey, Blondie, I Have It, Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald ... The list is endless. If you feel like it, Netflix released in 2016 a miniseries called The 4 Seasons of the Gilmore Girls.
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ
The will of a film genius
- Where : Filmin
How long it lasts : 1 season, 13 episodes and an epilogue, 15 hours approx.
Target audience : TV gourmets and nostalgics of the best European cinema of the 70s and 80s
When it premiered on regional television in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980, Berlin Alexanderplatz sparked an entire cultural and political earthquake: its stark portrait of the Weimar Republic dazzled some and sparked fierce rejection by others, to the point that Rainer Wender Fassbinder , iconoclast chief of the new European cinemas, had to hire bodyguards because of death threats coming from left and right. Fassbinder intended to end the "crap of televised serials and make literary art known to the general public" and carried out his plans by adapting Alfred Döblin's celebrated novel, a walk between the murky and the customary by a sick society to point of illuminating Nazism. Thus, we follow the eventful life of Franz Biberkopf , transporter, pimp and occasional robber, through the slums of interwar Berlin. Masterpiece falls short.
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