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"Emily in Paris" series with Lily Collins: The beret is just camouflage, Emily is of course American
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Netflix
"Emily in Paris," Netflix
Time budget:
ten episodes of 30 minutes each
for fans of:
"Prêt-à-Porter", "The fabulous world of Amélie", "Midnight in Paris"
We know that when it comes to Europe, the cultural horizon of many Americans only extends as far as Rome and Paris.
Well, they didn't have time to travel before Corona either, Americans actually only live to work.
But now these are prejudices, do you mean?
You can't lump all Americans together, can you?
Then take a look at this series, it's the only way to go!
That is precisely why it is so enjoyable.
American PR expert Emily (played by Phil Collins' daughter Lily) stalks on meter-high heels through a cleanly scrubbed and romantically lit fantasy Paris and exults sentences like: "I feel like Nicole Kidman in 'Moulin Rouge!'" Of course she soon finds out that Paris is not a film set at all and the residents are not beautiful extras, but egomaniacs who have nothing but contempt for Americans.
"Emily in Paris" is certainly not a smart series that makes fun of national clichés.
Rather, it's a disarmingly naive comedy soap that has little to offer except for a shiny, polished surface.
Strangely enough, it's good to just let yourself go.
Perhaps in the knowledge that two cultures are at work here that actually really like each other.
Oliver Kaever
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Singer Roland Meyer de Voltaire: History of failure and restart
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Netflix
"Like a Stranger," Netflix
Time budget:
five episodes of 50 minutes each
for fans of:
"Dig!"
, "Searching for Sugar Man", "Being Mario Götze"
The wind whistles and a man trudges through snow-covered Berlin - to piano tones that must not have seen the sun in a long time.
"I threw myself very, very much into it at the time," says a voice from the off as the camera continues its winter trip to Berlin.
"I threw myself into it so much that I really got blue eyes too."
The voice belongs to Roland Meyer de Voltaire, he is 42 years old today and is the focus of the documentary series "Like a Stranger".
Meyer de Voltaire "threw himself into the music".
He experienced what many musicians experience, but which often goes untold: In the noughties, his band Voltaire was considered the next big thing for a while;
Contract with a major label, 30,000 euros advance.
Only the breakthrough did not materialize and the band broke up.
In between, Meyer de Voltaire felt "burned out", he says at one point, suffering from panic attacks.
This story of failure and a restart is told in the five-part series by filmmaker Aljoscha Pause ("Being Mario Götze", "Inside Borussia Dortmund"), who accompanied Roland Meyer de Voltaire for six years.
The result is sometimes quite pathetic, but also surprisingly self-revealing.
(Read an interview with Roland Meyer de Voltaire here.)
Jurek Skrobala
Just don't watch this:
"The Walking Dead: World Beyond," Amazon Prime Video
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Endless zombie apocalypse: The undead must not die in "The Walking Dead: World Beyond"
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Jojo Whilden / AMC / Amazon
Time budget: ten episodes of 50 minutes each
for fans of: "Dawn of The Dead", "Shaun of the Dead"
The series universe "The Walking Dead" stands for a plague: series that just don't want to end.
Or may.
Countless undead have shuffled through ten seasons of the original since 2010, and five years ago 15 million people in the United States tuned in to watch it.
"Walking Dead" was by far the most successful series on a cable broadcaster, and that is the simple reason why US channel AMC keeps its zombies alive by all means (Amazon acquired the international broadcast rights).
The original series is supposed to go into the pit in the coming year with the eleventh season (the ratings have been falling for years), but there is still the spin-off "Fear The Walking Dead" and a number of other series and film continuations planned .
"The Walking Dead: World Beyond" is the first of these.
The plot takes place ten years after the zombie apocalypse: four teenagers leave a safe university campus to look for the father of the two leaders, who is a scientist working on an antidote.
The zombies look a bit funnier here, they put moss on their skulls, but they still stagger awkwardly around and are good-naturedly stabbed, shot down or beaten to death.
This is definitely good for repelling teen aggression.
But these young people are already so good that the apocalypse is soon imagined as a very cozy event.
If you haven't switched off beforehand.
Oliver Kaever
"Pan Tau", ARD media library
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"Pan Tau" remake with Matt Edwards: Constant grin without modeling clay
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Caligari / ARD
Time budget:
14 episodes of 25 minutes
each Then prefer the originals:
"Pan Tau", "The flying Ferdinand", "The fairy tale bride"
It's hard to describe the magic that television films and series wore on you when you were a child.
Most of the time there are only fragments left of the memory, but these are all the more impressive.
In the Czechoslovakian TV series "Pan Tau", for me, these are the moments when the great magician turned into the little clay man who could move and wave in a miraculous way.
I looked again at the original series, shot from 1969 to 1978, and it became clear to me: The real special effect wasn't the stop-motion man at all, but the actor Otto Šimánek, who played the silent bowler hat with inimitable grandeur and elegance .
Šimánek was a mime artist who could speak volumes with the lift of an eyebrow.
It has to be said so clearly that his successor, the British comedian Matt Edwards, cannot hold a candle to him.
He's mostly smiling in the background, and the script doesn't give him much to do.
The special effects here are of course modern and come from the computer, but they do not spread magic.
Especially since the stories are cramped for topicality and are silly.
It would be better if broadcasters put their creativity and courage into their own ideas instead of remaking classics that nobody needs.
The original is finally two clicks away.
Oliver Kaever
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