RANKING The 15 best series so far this year
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New bridge, new opportunity to
binge on episodes
of a
streaming series,
known as
binge-watching
.
It's not cold enough to get out the blankets, but the variety of options offered by the platforms is suggestive enough to entertain yourself for hours and hours without having to get too far from the sofa.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix)
Collection of
eight horror stories
presented as if it were the Crypt Keeper himself by the Oscar-winning Mexican director.
Young filmmakers display their talent to scare the viewer with witches, demons, curses, grave robbers, autopsies, monsters and gore, where there is no shortage of tributes to
HP Lovecraft
(they adapt his stories
Pickman's Model
and
Dreams in the House of witch
).
Perfect for a terrifying Halloween.
Heaven Commanded (Disney+)
Andrew Garfield
adds to his good streak in the cinema (
Tick, tick... Boom!
,
The eyes of Tammy Faye
or
Spider-Man: No Way Home
) one of the series most praised by critics this year.
Dustin Lance Black
, winner of the Oscar for Best Screenplay for
My Name Is Harvey Milk,
discusses the motivations
behind the Lafferty Affair
, in which two brothers believed they had been chosen by God to kill a woman and her 15-month-old daughter.
And he does it in an
intimate and reflective
way that manages to provide a wealth of nuances greater than usual.
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Last in Line (Netflix)
Five women in their thirties, friends from school who organize a week-long getaway together every year, face a special trip: one of them has just been diagnosed with cancer.
The screenwriter, film director and novelist
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
(
AzulOscuroCasiNegro
,
Gordos
,
Primos
) offers a different approach to a story that sounds familiar, but that shines thanks to the chemistry of its protagonists and the tenderness that reaches when capturing that
life is "here and now
".
Riot (Movistar +)
The waters have calmed down since the premiere of the series provoked angry protests by the Jupol and SUP unions, who accused the series of "
damaging the image of the National Police
."
But the controversy did not prevent the suffocating production by
Rodrigo Sorogoyen,
director of
El Reino
o
Madre
, from being recognized as one of the best national series of recent years: a
reflection on violence
narrated through the lives of seven policemen who told with the collaboration of
Isabel Peña
in the script.
Show me a hero (HBO Max)
Journalist
William F. Zorzi
received the call from the unrivaled
David Simon
, creator of
The Wire
and
Treme ,
to tell together the story of
Nick Wasicsko
, the mayor of a New York City who had to comply with a court order that they should be built protected housing in middle-class neighborhoods for poor black people.
Through an ensemble cast with names like
Oscar Issac
,
Alfred Molina
and
Winona Ryder
, the fiction reviews the chronological evolution of
a project surrounded by problems
.
In the director's chair,
Paul Haggis
, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture for
Crash
and author of scripts like
Million Dollar Baby
or
Casino Royale.
Subscription to HBO Spain is available here.
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