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. ‘The White House Plumbers’ (HBO Max, Tuesday)
The crew of this satirical miniseries about Watergate is almost an HBO ‘allstars’: David Mandell (‘Larry David’ veteran and former ‘Veep’ showrunner) directs some Woody Harrelson (‘True Detective’) and Justin Theroux (‘The leftovers’) simply brilliant as, respectively, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, the former CIA and FBI agents who ended up sinking the administration they were hired to sanitize. Mandel wanted to make a drama, but now only Theroux’s mustache invites hysterical laughter.
2. ‘Sherwood’ (Filmin, Tuesday)
Finally arriving in Spain, through Filmin, like many great British series, this celebrated crime drama about the crossbow murders that rock an old mining community. The screenwriter James Graham (‘Brexit’) has been inspired by real events that occurred in 2004 in the Ashfield district (Nottinghamshire), near where he grew up, which explains the great sense of place. David Morrissey, Lesley Manville and Robert Glanister lead a cast with no weak point or crack in sight.
3. ‘Queen Charlotte: A Story of The Bridgertons’ (Netflix, Thursday)
The first ‘spinoff’ of the global phenomenon ‘The Bridgertons’ shows how the young Carlota (excellent India Amarteifio) to becoming queen and the early days of her romance with King George (corey mylchreest) and his friendship with Lady Danbury (Thomas Thomas). In the mix there is no shortage of pop hits in an elegant camera version, scenes with a high sensual charge or suits and hairstyles that will take your breath away. Besides producing, shonda rimes is now also a creator and co-writer.
4. ‘Star Wars: Visions (Volume 2)’ (Disney+, Thursday)
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In September 2021, ‘Star Wars: Visions’ was released, a series of shorts in which Japanese animation studios gave their vision of the universe of ‘Star Wars’. Companies from the most diverse parts of the globe participate in the second volume, including Spain: the Madrid studio El Guiri opens the collection with ‘Sith’, to which they provide voices (also in the English-speaking version). Luis Tosar and Ursula Corberó. In addition, pieces from major brands such as Cartoon Saloon or Aardman.
5. ‘Silo’ (Apple TV+, Friday)
Hugh Howey’s novels about an underground society reach streaming in the best possible way: with a comfortable budget, Rebecca Ferguson in front of the cast and the great Graham Yost (responsible for ‘Justified: Raylan’s Law’) as creative captain. The title refers to the silo where those who are, in theory, the last ten thousand people live on (or rather, under) the face of the earth, in principle to protect themselves from a world furrowed by toxic winds.