Christmas is here.
The moment when all those traditions that permeate a calendar unfold in which free time is an entity that seems to exist, but that is not always within reach.
For this reason, in the few moments of freedom,
immersing oneself in fiction can be the best remedy
(not pharmaceutical) to face so much commitment.
And if it is in serial format, better.
Please Like Me (Netlfix)
Its defenders do not fall short when defining it.
"It's wonderful" is the most repeated comment in the criticism of anyone who has been hooked on the life of Josh (
Josh Thomas
), who after breaking up with his girlfriend Claire (
Caitlin Stasey
) discovers that he is homosexual.
With the support of her and her roommate, Tom (
Thomas Ward
) faces a new life that will not always have the desired family support.
It is not frantic, nor does it seek to hook with effects, but it is natural and intelligent, it captures the essence of friendship, of life itself.
And it has secondaries the height of
Hannah Gadsby
(who does not know her splendid monologue
Nanette
, it takes too long).
Perfect life (Movistar)
Sometimes, having everything turn out the other way around does not necessarily have to be bad: you can also be surprised for the better in the midst of so much uncertainty.
María (
Leticia Dolera
, who also writes and directs) lives it in her flesh in a three-way series in which the experiences of her sister Esther (
Aixa Villagrán
) and their best friend, Cristina (
Celia Freijerio
) are also
narrated
.
With a newly released second season,
Perfect Life
continues to launch itself into the viewer's jugular without compromise, whether to provoke laughter, fear or embarrassment.
Even all at once.
Everything Else (HBO Max)
Christmas is family, yes.
But let's not forget friends.
Abril Zamora
writes, directs and stars in a fiction in which frustration and insecurity take control of some characters who feel like
"old teenagers"
in a Madrid that makes no concessions.
where mistakes are paid, drunkenness gives hangovers and garbage jobs bad salaries.
It is then when friendship (feeling accepted, finding someone to listen to and tell everything) becomes a foothold from which, at least, to resist while seeking to channel existence.
Subscribe here to HBO MAX Spain.
Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon Prime Video)
Paul Weitz
,
Roman Coppola
and
Jason Schwartzman
delve into what happens in an orchestra, with the idea that what happens off stage can be as or more interesting than what happens on it. This is followed by the future of Rodrigo (
Gael García Bernal
), the new and impulsive conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra who presents himself as the perfect opportunity for the young oboist Hailey (
Lola Kirke
), desperate to demonstrate her talent. But what began as a production based on the book
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
by
Blair Tindall
she soon flies on her own, leading to a fresh and intriguing comedy-drama.
Subscription to Amazon Prime Video is available here.
The White Lotus (HBO MAX)
Sometimes it seems that
Mike White
writes and directs with the dagger between his teeth.
In this way he slashes (metaphorically, but not always) his characters and, therefore, the viewer.
But don't be fooled, these rich people who come to a spectacular Hawaiian resort seem to suffer, but they will never do so as much as their despised servers, no matter how badly these may fall on us at first.
Murray Bartlett
, who plays Armond, the director of the establishment, achieves the performance of his life in a production that entertains while doing an autopsy on an ego-rotten society.
You can subscribe to HBO MAX ESPAÑA here.
Masters of the Universe: Revelation (Netflix)
For an entire generation born in the 80s, few dolls mark these dates like the Masters of the Universe did.
He-Man
,
Skeletor
,
Teela
or
Evil-Lyn
marked the morning of Kings in thousands of national homes.
Now, they can entertain their way to it with the adventures of the heroes and villains of Eternia, which in the hand of director
Kevin Smith
have become an epic not without controversy given the radical reinvention of many concepts.
Dopesick: Story of an Addiction (Disney +)
The last of its eight episodes has just been broadcast and the
run-run
that classifies it as "the best series of the year"
is already being heard
.
Michael Keaton
,
Rosario Dawson
and
Peter Sarsgaard
are some of the familiar faces in this drama about OxyContin, the drug from a pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, which caused the largest drug addiction epidemic in the United States, with more than half a million deaths since 1999. To subscribe to Disney + you can access here.
Kamikaze (HBO MAX)
Julie (
Marie Reuther
), 18, is left alone in a huge mansion after her millionaire parents and her brother are killed in a plane crash.
She was a girl who seemed to have everything, but now she must face
a new life
, a stage of personal reflection full of surprising and catastrophic choices that will accompany the different phases of a duel that will be very different from what was imagined.
Subscribe here to HBO MAX Spain.
Catherine the Great (Cosmo)
Palace intrigue, an epic romance and the most powerful monarch in history.
These are the weapons that screenwriter
Nigel Williams
and director
Philip Martin play with
to turn Oscar-winning
Helen Mirren
into Catherine the Great, a brilliant and sexually liberated woman who, against all odds, wielded supreme power throughout Russia during the second half of the 18th century.
What would happen if?
(Disney Plus)
"This is an imaginary story, but aren't they all?" wondered
Alan Moore
, probably the best comic book writer alive, in what is probably one of the most famous Superman adventures among the thousands published by DC Comics. At the competing publisher, Marvel, alternate realities had their own headline,
What if?
, in which
Uatu El Vigilante
told what would have happened if something had altered the development of the continuity as readers knew it. The idea has made the leap to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an animated series that presents proposals as suggestive as what would have happened if Agent Carter had taken the serum from the super soldier or
Doctor Strange would have lost his heart
instead of his hands.
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