The series of 2022: rings, dragons, psychopaths and cancellations

dragons vs.

rings

In the end it wasn't that bad.

Or maybe yes, but not in my environment.

Of course, in my environment ,

are just that, "streamers" and the only one I really recognize is Ibai.

With the Dragons and especially with the Rings, something similar has happened to me.

Getting too excited about

and

felt artificial to me.

After two years

and platforms (HBO vs. Prime Video, sounds like an evening for Ibai), in the end things weren't that bad.

One fact is indisputable: no real stars have emerged from either of the two series.

Although there

who play hobbits, elves and targaryens on Twitch and I haven't heard...

Nacho and Bosé: Spain needs you

The series about Nacho Vidal and Miguel Bosé are having surreal debuts.

The first, "rescued" by Atresplayer Premium, was the star launch of a platform, Lionsgate, which decided to

.

will also arrive in our country... after being able to see him abroad.

The promotional implications of such mismatched releases are great:

could deflate before he can finally be seen in our country, Bosé will smell a bit of a rerun.

The

are also notorious: Nacho Vidal has the desire and ability to sell his series, while Miguel Bosé has...has...what does Bosé have besides his lost head?

Farewell to Westworld

The highly ambitious series by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, which failed to be the heir to the

somehow managed, surprisingly

), has not only been canceled by surprise, but it is supposed that at some point moment

HBO Max catalog.

The intricate relationships between platforms, producers and distributors are responsible for facts as

as the fact that a series "so HBO" like

is no longer part of the offer of, precisely, HBO.

The imagery of the Nolan and Joy series was the protagonist of the launch party for the service in Spain.

Oh the good times.

The psychopath who saved Ryan Murphy's life

With

, the million-dollar contract of super-showrunner Ryan Murphy with Netflix finally bore fruit.

If the data offered by the platform is reliable (sorry for the understatement: it's not), the series about Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee butcher,

that the Reed Hastings platform made in the ubiquitous Murphy, who by On the other hand, he managed to make the expression "exclusivity agreement" mean quite little, by keeping active the projects that he already had underway in other companies before signing with Netflix.

has served so that the evident failures of

,

or

remain on paper.

Because let's be honest

is a

, without a doubt the best Ryan Murphy has done for Netflix, but no one has seen it.

Shonda, SHONDA, SHONDA!

The other great "exclusive" asset (see: previous section) of Netflix, the creator of Grey's

and

, does seem to be really profitable.

and

It was the obsession of the world series during its premiere week.

And yes: I include myself.

Opening week... and then nothing

Netflix's business model and its consumer proposal

as they are culturally irritating: the pace of releases borders on paroxysm and the speed at which series and films are made obsolete by the ones that follow on the take-off ramp make the perception of the platform as a tireless

is much more than just an aftertaste.

In effect, it is a business model and a consumer proposition.

In less than a decade we have gone from considering any release on Netflix as an event (

,

...) to content that would have made headlines in 2017

.

The final season of

, released in 2019, was hardly talked about, when Jenji Kohan's series had been one of Netflix's flagships for years.

The series now

.

The Crown: relic and totem

Perhaps Peter Morgan's megaseries is the only one that maintains the

on Netflix .

And perhaps it is because the fiction (we repeat: fiction) about the British royal family has an unquestionable quality.

But we live in times in which reality and fiction do not fit together in a creaky way, so the fifth installment of

, which covers events that we already have

vivid television

, has aroused furious critics and, for the most part, off-television. .

Inconvenient Truth: Still an

.

1899 and the scythe

The criteria with which Netflix renews and cancels its series are between the instruction manual accessible to everyone and

that analyze the numbers that the company discloses in an almost cabalistic way (repeat with me again: "if the data offered by the platform are reliable...").

The reality is, however, unquestionable: series like

, which

for a couple of weeks, are subsequently denied the possibility of continuing.

,

,

,

,

or

They are other of the productions that Netflix

.

Some of them have mobilized their fans, but who was not or has not heard.

HBO... and the scythe too

From series like the nice

we have received the news that it was renewed... and that it was cancelled.

At least the

.

The HBO ecosystem also cut off a multitude of local productions.

may be the most colorful ... but not the only thing

.

Apple TV: the quiet giant

With the peace of mind that it gives you to sell devices at large (it is estimated that there are more than a billion active Apple

on the planet), the series offer of the apple company has entered a

.

Some of his series, like

, have entered the serial conversation with elegance and power, others, like

, maintain an active

and mammoth projects like Jason Momoa's

sink into total irrelevance. without Apple noticing one bit in its quarterly results.

, hosted by M. Night Shyamalan, will end his

of 2023 and, with the tranquility that characterizes the platform, the third of

will arrive sometime in the summer of 2023. Or in the fall.

... in its plan for world domination.

Self-defense, Smiley and the whiny niches

Two small Spanish productions,

on Filmin and

on Netflix, have once again shown that the

.

In certain circles (and that of series journalists is one of them), two such small fictions have received possibly excessive attention.

They have also opened debates that are great for them.

Both

and

have ended up

that they themselves have generated: the first on the representation of realities and sensibilities that, surprisingly, were far from underrepresented;

the second on whether the LGBT narrative

towards the G (answer: yes) and if that G tends to defend certain narrative-political postulates that at this point smell rancid (answer: yes).

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