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Mysteries, kidnappings, murders, persecutions... The

thriller

engages.

It does not matter if it is of a supernatural, espionage or police nature:

the tension and intrigue enchant the viewer

and the platforms treat this type of production with care, of which we highlight six.

Tokyo Vice (HBO Max)

Late 1990s. The young journalist Jake Adelstein (

Ansel Elgort

) becomes the first Western journalist to work for the

Yomiuru Shimbun

, the daily with the largest circulation in Japan and the world.

Under the supervision of Hiroto Katagari (

Ken Watanabe

) a veteran Tokyo police detective, Jake begins to investigate the shadowy world of the

yakuza

, the dangerous Japanese mafia controlled by the country's most powerful criminals.

In this way, an intriguing look at Japan begins, where crime and power enter into an imbricated relationship that

Michael Mann

portrays with his usual mastery, based on

Adelstein

's own book .

You can subscribe to HBO Max here.

The Old Man (Disney+)

Dan Chase (

Jeff Bridges

) left the CIA decades ago, but when an assassin comes along and tries to kill him, the aging agent realizes that to secure his future he must come to terms with his past.

But FBI Deputy Director of Counterintelligence Harold Harper (

John Lithgow

) won't make it easy for him.

Old age, occupation and moral ambiguity run through the plot of a twisted series, riddled with trompe l'oeil in which the protagonist turns to achieving his goal: "defend what needs to be defended".

To subscribe to Disney + you can access here.

Your Honor (Movistar +)

Michael Desiato (

Bryan Cranston

) is a respected New Orleans judge whose life is derailed when his son Adam (

Hunter Doohan

) accidentally kills Rocco (

Benjamin Wadsworth

), the son of crime boss Jimmy Baxter (

Michale Stuhlbarg

) and turns himself into drain.

Created by

Peter Moffat

and based on an original Israeli fiction titled

Kvodo

, it has two fast-paced seasons in which Cranston embodies a courageous father in the midst of a fast-paced game of lies, deceit and impossible choices.

Servant (AppleTV+)

M. Night Shyamalan

acts as executive producer (and director of some episodes) of this fiction created and written by

Tony Basgallop

that was renewed before it was released.

Now its fourth season sees the light, where it promises to end the story of a couple of millionaires from Philadelphia, Dorothy (

Lauren Ambrose

) and Sean Turner (

Toby Kebbell

), who suffer a marital crisis after the death of their 13-week-old son. , Jericho.

They both undergo "transient object" therapy using a doll after Dorothy suffered a psychotic break.

To care for the doll, which Dorothy believes is her real child, they hire a young nanny, Leanne Grayson (

Nell Tiger Free ).

), who arrives at the home accompanied by a disturbing "mysterious force".

The Devil's Hour (Amazon Prime Video)

Lucy (

Jessica Rain

) wakes up every night at exactly 3:33 a.m., the so-called devil's hour, after suffering a series of nightmares that she feels are echoes of a past she never lived.

Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time, but her answers lie at the end of a list of brutal murders that will lead her to the figure of Gideon (

Peter Capaldi

), a mysterious inmate who seems to hold the key to everything.

Tom Moran

crafts an intense story halfway between psychological

thriller

and supernatural terror that has already been renewed for two more seasons.

Amazon Prime Video subscription is available here.

The woman across the street from the girl in the window (Netflix)

When Neil (

Tom Riley

) moves in and becomes her handsome neighbor, Anna (

Kristen Bell

), a painter heartbroken by a family misfortune, begins to have her hopes up.

But soon she will witness a gruesome murder... or so she believes.

Because Anna mixes alcohol with the medications prescribed by her therapist, she has frequent hallucinations and suffers from ombrophobia, a paralyzing fear of rain, which means that her testimony is not highly valued by either the police or the relatives of her

This is the starting point of this fun and dark series, capable of causing chills and laughing at the same time.

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