The miniseries by screenwriter Rafael Cobos (‘La isla mínima’) recently won an award at Canneseries and a ‘true crime’ by David E. Kelley (‘Big little lies’) starring Elizabeth Olsen, among the most notable premieres
Every week new series premiere, other well-known and beloved ones return, and the schedule can easily become impossible. In this section we make five proposals with which, in principle, it is impossible to go wrong.
1. ‘Mrs. Davis’ (HBO Max, Tuesday)
Damon Lindeloff (‘Lost’, ‘The leftovers’, ‘Watchmen’) has created with Tara Hernandez (screenwriter of ‘Big bang’) this, it seems, more than irreverent crossover of genres and tones around a nun (betty gilpin) dealing with an artificial intelligence. That’s right, the series comes at the right time, in the middle of a debate on the ethical problems of AI. What Lindelof and Hernandez are wondering, like so many of us, is: what if they took over the world and didn’t mean well?
2. ‘The left-handed son’ (Movistar Plus+, Thursday)
After contributing as a screenwriter to almost all of Alberto Rodríguez’s filmography (and winning Goyas for his work on ‘La isla mínima’ and ‘El hombre de las mil caras’), Raphael Cobos he assumes greater responsibilities than ever (he is creative director, scriptwriter and director) in this electrifying adaptation of a novel by Rosario Izquierdo, recently awarded for best short series at Canneseries. María León is Lola, a mother who confronts the neo-Nazi drift of her son as she tries to find her own inner balance.
3. ‘The Nurse’ (Netflix, Thursday)
The Danish production company behind ‘The Hartung Case’ and ‘Borgen: Kingdom, Power and Glory’ proposes a ‘thriller’ about the real murderous nurse who wreaked havoc at the Nykøbing Falster hospital. A new nurse at the center, Pernille Kurzmann (Fanny Louise Bernth), begins to suspect that her charismatic and charming partner Christina Aistrup Hansen (Josephine Park) is no saint. She is not the only one with that opinion, but she is the first to act on it and seek justice.
4. ‘Love & death’ (HBO Max, Thursday)
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Is it a ‘spoiler’ to remember a real crime that occurred more than four decades ago? Or mention the name of another series about this case released last year? While we think about it, we’ll just talk about ‘Love & Death’ as a story of infidelity and murder in a suburb of Wylie, Texas, where devout people repress their desires. The ‘hitmaker’ david e kelley (‘Big little lies’) leads a project with two greats like Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons at the center of the cast.
5. ‘Citadel’ (Prime Video, Friday)
After directing some of the biggest hits in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the brothers Joe and Anthony Russo they seem now less focused on superheroes than on James Bond-style superagents. After Netflix’s ‘The Invisible Agent’, they propose from Prime Video the ambitious (and very expensive) series ‘Citadel’, the first link in a universe that will have replicas in India and Italy, for now. Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas are two elite agents of the world spy agency of the title.