Two of the most anticipated Spanish series of the season arrive this month, fueled by great expectations, to portray sexual abuse in marriage with Want and a journey of personal improvement with I, addict. Cate Blanchett joins the names that shine the Apple TV+ catalog in Disclaimer. The new seasons of the tender will also meet heartstopperlegal drama The Lincoln Lawyerthe exciting comedy Somebody Somewhere and the addictive The diplomat.
But this month’s offer is much larger and has even more interesting proposals. The second season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (day 3 on AMC+) follows Daryl and Carol in a zombie-filled France. The franchise (day 7 on Max) goes behind the scenes of the catastrophic filming of a superhero movie. The British Inside No. 9 (day 8 on Filmin) will put an end to this anthology that combines black comedy with other genres. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna meet in The Machine (day 9 on Disney+) to play the first a boxer in low hours and the second his eccentric and dedicated representative. One of the most followed series on Netflix returns, the youth one Outer Banks (day 10) and the universe of Citadel expands on Prime Video with the Italian series Citadel: Diana (also day 10).
The Spanish daily series are conquering the streaming. While some of the fictions that are broadcast on free-to-air television are making their way with interest on paid platforms, Return to Las Sabinas (11th on Disney+) becomes the first Spanish daily series created directly for the streaming. The Australian version of The Officewith a female protagonist (18th on Amazon Prime Video). Filterless therapy (the 16th on Apple TV+), with Jason Segel and Harrison Ford, premieres its second season, and the British Rivals (18th on Disney+) will follow the confrontation between two television moguls in 1980s England with David Tennant and Aidan Turner in the cast. Dating Barcelona (21st on Amazon Prime Video) returns with more contemporary love stories, almost at the same time as the erotic-romantic comedy premieres What are you waiting for? (20th at Atresplayer), which adapts the novels by Megan Maxwell. The sixth and final season of What we do in the shadows (day 24 in Max). Billy Crystal heads the thriller supernatural Before (25th on Apple TV+). Javier Rey is leading the cast of The last night in Tremor (25th on Netflix) and at the end of the month the Italian one also returns Lidia Poët’s law (30th on Netflix).
Of this month’s premieres and returns (which you can check on our calendar), we recommend giving this selection a chance.
heartstopper
The series that portrays teenage love queer In a luminous way, walking the fine line that separates the emotional from the sappy without falling into the latter, it follows the route that it already opened in the second season to now delve even further into the darkness. The story based on the comics by Alice Oseman delves into Nick and Charlie’s relationship while delving into the latter’s mental health problems and the former’s anguish over trying to help him. The new episodes of one of Netflix’s most popular series, which filmed part of its third season in Spain, feature brief cameos by Jonathan Bailey, Hayley Atwell and Eddie Marsan.
When and where to see it? On Thursday the 3rd, on Netflix.
Disclaimer
The proper names behind this thriller Drama is its main asset. The Mexican Alfonso Cuarón returns to television (in 2017 he was already behind the forgotten Believe). Cate Blanchett also returns to the small screen (among other brief participations, in 2020 she starred in Mrs. America). They are joined by Kevin Kline as co-star. The story, told in seven episodes, follows the fall of a documentary filmmaker who has made her career revealing the crimes of others. Now she discovers that a novel brings her darkest secrets to light while she is forced to face her past to prevent her life and those around her from being destroyed. It was presented at the Venice Film Festival and some critics described it as confusing and unsuccessful. But with those names, you have our attention.
When and where to see it? On Friday the 11th, on Apple TV+.
brilliant minds
An example of the good harvest that American free-to-air television is leaving at the beginning of the season is this medical drama that powerfully stars Zachary Quinto. He plays Dr. Oliver Wolf (inspired by the neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks), a charismatic neurologist who suffers from a disorder that prevents him from recognizing faces. His unorthodox methods in treating patients will get him fired, after which a friend offers him a position at the precarious Bronx General Hospital, where he will mentor a group of medical residents. The series is a good classic procedural, with its charismatic doctor with problems on duty, which, according to American critics, really takes off with the twists contained in its third chapter.
When and where to see it? On Friday the 11th, on Movistar Plus+.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Another of Netflix’s popular hits has a flavor of traditional lawyer television. After all, behind it is David E. Kelley, a classic of the small screen, and of this subgenre, with series like Ally McBeal either The lawyer to his credit. Mexican actor Manuel García Rulfo plays defense attorney Mickey Haller in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novels that takes place in a bright Los Angeles with long-term plots that directly affect the protagonist combined with shorter cases. In this third season, ghosts from the past haunt Mickey after he discovers that a former client, a prostitute whom he believed he had led on the right path, has been murdered.
When and where to see it? On Thursday the 17th, on Netflix.
Want
There are only four episodes, but the very powerful debut on television by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa will give a lot to talk about, it is a demonstration of the maturity that Spanish television fiction has reached and is running to occupy the high positions in the best of the television year. It tells the story of Miren (played by Nagore Aranburu), who after 30 years of marriage and two children together, leaves the marital home and denounces her husband (a great Pedro Casablanc) for continued rape. His move will cause the foundations of the entire family to crumble. How is such an accusation proven? How do the children of the marriage, almost forced to choose sides, continue with their lives?
When and where to see it? On Thursday the 17th, on Movistar Plus+.
Somebody Somewhere
This great little comedy has managed to reach the third and final season by dint of sincerity, honesty and naturalness, a rarity in the complex universe of current television. Comedian Bridget Everett plays Sam, a woman dealing with grief and self-acceptance. On this difficult path he finds the help of a group of characters who rely on humor and a very optimistic vision of life to face the gray of everyday life in the small town in Kansas where they live. With humor and emotion that transcends the screen, the series is a hymn to friendship and a vindication of the oddities that make us different and make us all unique beings.
When and where to see it? On Monday the 28th, at Max.
This Town
Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blindersnow delves into the British music scene of Thatcher’s England, a turbulent time politically and effervescent culturally. The story follows four young people who want to form a musical band to try to escape a gray future in the least favored neighborhoods of the city, surrounded by terrorism, crime and addictions. Knight was inspired by his own youth to write this personal love letter to Birmingham, his city, and portray that time in a six-part miniseries that has received good reviews in the United Kingdom.
When and where to see it? On Tuesday the 29th on Movistar Plus+.
I, addict
The series co-created and co-directed by Javier Giner and based on his autobiographical book received great praise from those who saw it at the San Sebastián Festival, where it was presented a few days ago. Oriol Pla plays Javier himself, a professional in the world of audiovisuals who decides at the age of 30 to voluntarily enter a detoxification center to try to get his life back on track and put an end to the vital anguish and suffering he feels and generates in his environment due to self-destructive spiral in which he finds himself of addiction to alcohol, drugs and sex. The series follows the journey of self-improvement and personal discovery that he undertakes due to this decision.
When and where to see it? On Wednesday the 30th, on Disney+.
The diplomat
The first season of thriller politician starring Keri Russell was one of the most watched series on Netflix in 2023. A little over a year later, the new batch of chapters is released, which will pick up the story where it left off, when the United States ambassador In London he discovers that the attack on the British ship they were investigating was not the work of an enemy nation, but that the order came from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom himself. Furthermore, an attack directed against those closest to them left the viewer on the edge of their seat waiting for new episodes. The series will continue to navigate between the turbulent waters of diplomacy and the whirlwinds of the protagonist’s personal life, with a marriage in constant crisis.
When and where to see it? On Thursday the 31st, on Netflix.
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