Four consecutive holidays. Hallelujah. For those who want entertaining series for these festive nights or simply because they are run over by life and want to relax on the sofa, here we bring you ten proposals to entertain us on these dates, ranging from the sentimental comedy of Terapia sin filtro to the adult drama of Fleishman is in trouble or the madness of Yellowjackets. There is something for all tastes, on all platforms, and also miniseries for those who want to start and end the proposals in the remainder of Easter:
It is appreciated when one puts on a television series and it proposes an original story that does not depend on franchises, best-sellers and intellectual properties already squeezed before in the audiovisual industry. With Bronca (Beef) precisely this happens: the viewer can get carried away by an enmity that arose after a run-in with the car. They are Danny (Steven Yeun) and Amy (Ali Wong), who have opposite lives but are marked by pressure and dissatisfaction, and who decide to pay with each other for all their personal frustrations.
The best? Seeing how Bronca is completely a comedy but is marked at all times by a latent and growing tension. Its first episode is especially inspired, ideal to capture the viewer. And who is behind? Korean Lee Sung Jin, who created the series within A24, the fashion production company after sweeping the Oscars with Everything at Once Everywhere and The Whale, as well as having attracted attention on television with Euphoria.
The streaming bubble, the production of hundreds of television fictions in the United States alone, allows unexpected treasures to appear such as the miniseries Everybody Loves Daisy Jones, the adaptation of the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid who, an admirer of Civil Wars or Fleetwood Mac, he envisioned a 1970s rock band where its singers, Billy Dunn (Sam Claflin) and Daisy Jones (Riley Keough), grapple with egos and romantic feelings during the songwriting process.
And why does it work? For the chemistry of the protagonists, for the charisma of Riley Keough (Elvis Presley's granddaughter), for the care in outlining the female characters and for the story to be understood from their point of view and for the music of Daisy Jones and the Six , the fictitious band that has a notable album on music platforms, Aurora, with great songs like The River, Let me down easy or Look at us now. Oh, and there are ten episodes, the ideal duration for the Easter holidays.
A psychiatrist, grieving the death of his wife, decides to change the way he treats his patients. Rather than keep quiet and stick with the tools he was taught in college, he decides to hold his tongue and give them unconventional advice. Thus begins one of the funniest comedies on the air, starring a cast in great harmony with Jason Segel, Christa Miller, Jessica Williams and Harrison Ford, and signed by Segel himself or Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, creators of Ted Lasso.
The sisters Mireia and Joana Vilapuig are well-known enough for their faces to be familiar to the reader: Mireia was twelve years old when the film Herois was released and Joana was seventeen when she starred in Polseres vermelles. But they are not famous enough for the public to know what their personal circumstances are like. And they play with it in Selftape, an exercise in self-fiction that has fun (from the drama) between the reality and the fiction of their lives, marked by succeeding as minors and coming face to face with an audiovisual industry that did not keep its arms open to as they grew.
Selftape, with six episodes, is a work influenced by Girls, I could destroy you or Fleabag, but it is emancipated from these referents with the particular story of the Vilapuig sisters, who present videos of their childhoods and their first selftapes in the footage, while they reflect on interpretation, cruelty, blocking, consent, or the difficulties of keeping the bonds of their brotherhood intact when even competing within the profession. It is unknown if it will have a second season but, for now, this first one can be seen as a miniseries: it is well closed.
Season 2 just premiered, and if you haven't checked it out yet, that means you've missed out on one of the most inspiring shows on television today. The starting point is very Lost: a plane crashes and the passengers, the players of a high school soccer team, must survive in the middle of a mysterious forest. The accident takes place in the nineties and in the present you can see the survivors, who hide details of the 19 months they were lost. Does someone want to kill them for what they did? And what exactly did they do (or rather, why did some of them seem to form a cannibalistic cult)?
Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the creators, beautifully blend black comedy, thriller, supernatural horror, teen drama, and mystery with a graceful female cast, including Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey , Tawny Cypress and Juliette Lewis as the adult versions of the characters.
Doctor Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) thinks he's having the summer of his life. He's divorced, he has to share his two kids with his ex (Claire Danes), he's discovering how easy it is to have sex thanks to dating apps, and he's reconnected with his two childhood friends (Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody). . But all expectations are twisted when Rachel, who was his wife, does not go looking for her children and without giving him any explanation.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner adapts her own novel into an eight-episode miniseries for anyone looking for an adult comedy-drama, with a strong class outlook but touching on adult themes like marital satisfaction, parenthood, Manhattan social rules, frustration at the crisis of the forties and other conflicts that it is better not to gut. The penultimate episode will be the best of 2023.
Does Nacho Vidal deserve a television series to tell about his life, especially now that he is at such a delicate moment, involved in a murder case? One does not have time to think about it with so much energy, music, rhythm and cockiness that the Bambú Producciones proposal has, starring a Martiño Rivas who a priori seemed a questionable casting choice (especially for those who saw him in Las chicas del cable). and that, against all odds, she overflows with charisma and confidence in the role of the porn star.
Stan only wants to be an actor but a family circumstance leads him to another path: he is the son of Satan himself, the Antichrist, and now that he is approaching the celebration of his 666 months, he has to leave hell to prepare for the Apocalypse that must provoke in New York. This fun and original starting point leads to an adult animated comedy created by Miguel Esteban, Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla and with a cast that includes Ignatius Farray, Carlos Areces and even Verónica Forqué.
Rizzo or Frenchy were not the founders of the Pink Ladies, the rock girls of Rydell's high school. So who were they? Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, which premieres on SkyShowtime this Good Friday, responds to this response by introducing Jane (Marisa Davila), Nancy (Tricia Fukuhura), Olivia (Cheyenne Wells) and Cynthia (Ai Notartomaso), who challenged the system Rydell's popularity rating.
Those who doubt the need for this prequel to Grease, the 1978 title that made stars of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, take a look at the opening musical number. It is a luxury at the production level, in the execution of the musical numbers and, in addition, it has a fashionable composer like Justin Tranter to give life to the 31 songs of the first season. This series, however, is for a snack: SkyShowtime begins its broadcast, which will continue week by week.
There is a reason why, without anyone taking it into account, The Night Agent started on Netflix as the third most successful novelty in the history of the platform after Wednesday and Dahmer: it is a more than correct entertainment signed by Shawn Ryan ( The Shield, Lie to me). It's classic and predictable in its twisted plot but it works well enough that the viewer wants to watch all ten episodes one after the other.
FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), who works in the White House and with a complicated family past, receives an urgent call. Suddenly, he finds himself in a conspiracy with no one to trust other than Rose (Luciane Buchanan), the witness he must protect. He will have a second season but the first one solves the first conspiracy, so he is an ideal vice for Easter.
