Comedies, zombies, classic dramas, sitcoms and Nordic black policemen, a selection of the recommendations of vivomix.com for these days when you stay home due to preventive isolation.
1- Money Heist
Addictive, dizzying and extreme like the previous ones or even more, with different timelines and a present in which the teacher is increasingly gloomy.
“This season it was a matter of bringing the Professor down to hell and Alicia’s move to make him believe that Lisbon is dead completely destabilizes him,” actor Álvaro Morte said of his character.
The character of Belén Cuesta, who was barely seen in the previous season, grows like Marseille (Luka Peros). Actress Úrsula Corberó, who has a leading role like Tokyo, pointed out that, despite the strong male characters, there is also a lot of “girl power”.
2- Kingdom, zombies from South Korea
Directed by Kim Seong-hoon, the value of this fiction perhaps lies in the fact that, addressing a theme of which we are already a bit fed up, especially because of how repetitive and predictable the “mother” series became, The Walking Dead, manages to catch both for the beauty of its natural settings and the balance between the scenes of the living dead and the exciting historical-cultural context in which it takes place.
There is royalty, nobles, and the rest is little less than scum. The woman, of course, occupies a much lower role, although here are two who receive applause: the malevolent and young wife of the zombie king, who will do everything possible to retain the throne for herself, and an intelligent and devoted doctor who puts on the shoulder the investigation of these unstoppable cases of contagion.
The apocalypse is unleashed thanks to excessive ambition and contempt for the lives of others: the king died, but is revived thanks to the dark arts as part of the plan of certain members of the palace interested in that the crown prince, Yi-Chang, never ascend to the throne.
From that moment, a plot of political intrigues, action, and the outbreak of the disease begins, transforming its victims in a matter of seconds.
3- Unorthodox, a fugitive girlfriend
From the bowels of a community of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn with its rule days and traditions to the exciting urban life and cultural fizz of Berlin: Esty runs away from home in search of a rebirth.
Based on the memoirs of Deborah Feldman, a bestselling book published in 2012, “Unorthodox” is an exciting story that hits the Netflix screen in four-installment miniseries. With the subtitle “the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots”, Feldman recounted how he escaped from an arranged marriage at the age of 19 and settled in Germany. That will also be the narrative nucleus that serves as a starting point for the audiovisual version.
4 -. Community, a pop culture sitcom
It was directed by Dan Harmon (also creator of the cartoon series Rick and Morty), with a cast full of recognized names, such as Chevy Chase, the Oscar winner for best adapted screenplay Jim Rash, Ken Jeong and artist Donald Glover. (also known as Childish Gambino), among others.
This series was described by many of these as the high point of their acting careers, as it constantly challenged the limits of the “sitcom” genre. It was televised for five years on the US channel NBC and one year on the online streaming site Yahoo! Screen until its end in 2015 and now it premiered on Netflix.
5- The Valhalla murders
The Scandinavian police sub-genre is fairly reaping a large following. Both from literature – Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” saga was undoubtedly the mainstay of the phenomenon – as well as in cinema, and lately especially in series, stories about mysterious crimes that paradoxically come to us from the region with less serious crimes of the world are usually captivating. There are several recent examples for those who already have some experience in this nordic noir: “Trapped”, “Borgen” or the better known “The killing”
“The Valhalla Murders” is set in Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, where a crime for no apparent reason shakes the lethargy. Kata, a police detective somewhat frustrated by the lack of recognition in her job, must learn to work with Arnar, a criminal profiling expert who had long since left the island and worked in Oslo. The investigation will reveal terrible past events in the city, including child abuse and collusion by the authorities.
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