The long-awaited Easter holidays are here.
Dates to rest, disconnect, enjoy nature and leisure or simply to do nothing.
In any of the cases, there is always time to sit down and watch a good series as a couple, as a family or alone and, if they are short, the better.
We propose seven good miniseries to watch one each day of Holy Week.
Monday
THE TIME I GIVE YOU (Netflix)
.
Wonderful Spanish series of ten episodes of 13 minutes each that tells the love story of a young couple who decide to leave after many years together.
It stars Nadia de Santiago and Álvaro Cervantes and each one of the chapters dedicates time to the present and to the memory of the relationship.
Tuesday
HOW TO GET INTO A GARDEN
(HBO Max).
Olivia Colman ( The Crown
,
Fleebag
,
The Dark Daughter
...) has recently become omnipresent in any self-respecting British production
and stars alongside David Thewlis (Harry Potter) in this police drama based on the true story of a crime that took place in 1998. in England, still unsolved today.
Throughout its four episodes, it follows the story of a seemingly normal English couple who become the center of a murder investigation when two bodies are discovered in the back garden of the house of her (missing) parents.
The creators are the same as those of the renowned
Chernobyl
.
Wednesday
STORIES NOT TO SLEEP
(Prime Video).
Updated version with the same title of the legendary masterpiece by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador that left half of Spain
sleepless
between the mid-60s and early 80s with his horror episodes.
The new production contains
four of the
most mythical and unforgettable episodes of the original revised by directors Paco Plaza, Rodrigo Cortés, Paula Ortiz and Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
The four chapters of the first season (the second is already underway), very different from each other and with different themes, are
The joke, The double
,
Freddy
and
The asphalt
.
THURSDAY
THE UNDOING (HBO Max)
.
Nikole Kidman and Hugh Grant star in this six-episode psychological thriller that keeps viewers guessing until the very end.
It was one of the platform's series of the year at the end of 2020 and tells the story of a wealthy couple from New York, apparently normal, whose lives change radically when an acquaintance is found murdered.
FRIDAY
LOKI (Disney +).
This series of superheroes for the whole family has six episodes, based on the Marvel Universe character of the same name, adoptive brother of Thor and nicknamed
The God of Lies
.
Although the films of the
Avengers
saga , where he appears, have not been seen before, the adventures of this character played by Tom Hiddleston can be perfectly followed without missing a single detail.
SATURDAY
UNORTHODOX
(Netflix).
Four episodes comprise this drama that surprises (and pleases) for its unusual theme and for being a true story.
Based on the life of Deborah Feldman, a young Jewish woman who escaped from an ultra-Orthodox community and recounted it in her book, the miniseries introduces Etsy, a Hasidic Jewish girl from Brooklyn, New York, who cannot cope with the ultra-Orthodox norms of the community. in which she lives and decides to leave her husband, the result of an arranged marriage, and move to Berlin, where her mother lives.
She there she will find the freedom she was looking for.
The German production is shot in Yiddish, a mixed language of Hebrew and German, and also in English and German.
SUNDAY
THE COLLAPSE
(RTVE).
Eight episodes filmed in sequence shot, about 20 minutes each, make up this French apocalyptic miniseries that follows a group of desperate people trying to survive when the planet collapses.
Each episode shows independent stories in which the protagonists react differently to different crises (electricity cuts, supply shortages, climate change...).
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