The final clash between Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce and the misadventures of sociopath Joe Goldberg in London, among this week’s great series events
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. ‘Happy Valley (season 3)’ (Movistar Plus+, Tuesday)
This Tuesday we will be able to discover in Spain the end (apparently definitive) of one of the best recent series, that emotional and daily ‘thriller’ about two kinds of mourning. On the one hand, the one suffered by police sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) since his daughter took her own life. On the other, the one that confronts her over the years with Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton; photo), psychopathic murderer guilty of the aforementioned tragedy. It is time for the expected final clash.
2. ‘You (Season 4, Part 1)’ (Netflix, Thursday)
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New season of ‘You’, new identity and new city for Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), the charming sociopath at the center of TV’s darkest romantic comedy. At the end of the previous installment we saw him walking around Paris in search of Marienne (Tati Gabrielle), his (umpteenth) great love obsession. We will learn how the search ended and how Joe is given a stint in London under the guise of a university professor. He will be, for sure, blood and very inside jokes.
3. ‘Love gives a lot of war’ (Netflix, Friday)
The first of many Korean Netflix series for 2023 is a romantic comedy about a young lawyer (Kim Ok-binheroine of ‘Thirst’ and ‘La villana’) and a very popular actor (Teo Yoo, seen in ‘Leto’), known as “the master of kisses”, in constant confrontation and inevitable rapprochement. The former hates when men get their way and the latter distrusts any adult woman, but their (literal) fight of the sexes is destined to end in an embrace. Or masterful kisses.
4. ‘South Park (Season 26)’ (Paramount Comedy, Saturday)
Comedy Central premieres on VOSE, just three days after its arrival in the United States, the new season of the iconic animated series for adults, which celebrated its first quarter century last year. And everything seems to indicate that the old Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny will continue to be installed on our screens: the large agreement of the co-creators Trey Park and Matt Stone with MTV Entertainment Studios includes extending the series until at least 2027.
5. ‘Thistle (season 2)’ (ATRESplayer Premium, Sunday)
The daring creation of Ana Rujas and Claudia Costafreda about a drifting twenty-something and the accident that changes everything for her. In the second season, a María (Rujas) recently released from prison discovers that her reinsertion is not easy and that her relationship with her friends is not what she used to be. As the creators have advanced, ‘Cardo’ will continue to be ‘Cardo’, just as naughty, but at the same time it will offer new nuances. Sergio Jiménez, winner of the Goya for ‘The Year of Discovery’, repeats in the montage.