Need a break? Five crunchy block breaks under thirty minutes | Viewing guide

College oats are great, but have you really studied the health benefits of karaoke? Not only does it stimulate the brain, since singing activates the think button, it also relieves stress and improves memory. All things that are seriously block-promoting, so. This fifth season of ‘Carpool Karaoke’ features a car full of professional wrestlers, as well as ‘New Girl’ actress Zooey Deschanel, musical superstars Anitta & Saweetie and – our favorite – the cast of the HBO series ‘The White Lotus,” featured on Streamz. Seeing and hearing Murray Bartlett and Sydney Sweeney groan on Taylor Swift’s ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ is guaranteed to put a smile on your tired, studied snout. By the way, do you know how Sweeney fills her breaks on the set of ‘Euphoria’? By tinkering with old cars!

Okay ‘Rick and Morty’ and ‘BoJack Horseman’ are also great study breaks, but the realm of animation is so much richer than that. With ‘Undone’, Prime Video delivered its first adult cartoon series from the makers of ‘BoJack Horseman’. This mysterious psychological drama follows Alma, a Mexican-American woman who discovers she can travel through time after a near-fatal car accident. She uses this newfound gift to find out the truth about her father’s passing. The role of Alma stars Rosa Salazar who you may know from ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ and Bob Odenkirk from ‘Better Caul Saul’ plays Alma’s father Jacob. The series, which consists of two seasons with episodes of less than 25 minutes, has received critical acclaim ranging from “beautifully surreal” to “wonderfully trippy” and is therefore 100% block proof.

Do you want to take a break, but also don’t want to turn off the cognitive mill? Then ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ is your go-to. This satirical news program from HBO not only analyzes, fillets and flames topics that made the news, it also broadens your general knowledge in the most pleasing way. At the helm is John Oliver, a British-American comedian who spent many years as a correspondent and writer on that other satirical news program ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ before being picked up to run his own show. There are a total of nine seasons of ‘Last Week Tonight’ on Streamz and they rarely exceed the thirty-minute limit. We don’t have to tell you that the festival summer is coming. But why exactly are concert tickets so expensive? Stewart explains that in episode four of season nine. So open your ears.

This describes itself as an anthology series of eight separate episodes in which feminist fables are central. And if you think this is more for your aunt or mother, then you’re right, but at the same time, each episode is absurd and entertaining enough to be a solid block distraction. With episodes titled “The Woman Who Ate Pictures” and “The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder,” you know you’re in for a thirty-minute escape from reality, yet in an educational way, because every story says something. (magnified) about what it means to be a woman today. The series was made by the makers of ‘GLOW’ – that series about women’s wrestling on Netflix – and includes Nicole Kidman in the ranks. These eight episodes all promote one thing and that is to roar once in a while, because something like that is a relief. In life. And certainly during the block.

Think ‘Thirties’, but in New York and with a serious angle. ‘Search Party’ is a good reminder to stay in school a little longer, because once you go to work and get into your thirties, you’ll find yourself working your way week after week to get your clean body over the weekend. dragging one expensive brunch spot to another to find school friends you were once young but now worn out. At the center of this series is Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) who is hungry for action in her life. When she discovers a flyer on the street that one of her old schoolmates -Chantal- is missing and she thinks she has seen her in a flash, she bites into her disappearance and drums up her colorful and hilarious friends to form a search team. to shape. Dory quickly disappears into a web of paranoia and conspiracy theories, never quite regaining her sanity over the course of five seasons. And the best news: the episodes are all around twenty minutes. You can even throw in a karaoke clapper to round out the break!

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