24 series for this summer

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Those summers in which you could take advantage of to resume the series that were pending during the rest of the year or to revisit

, they are gone never to return.

In the world of series, unlike the rest of television, summer is high season: potential viewers have more free time and platforms allow them to take series wherever they want and watch them whenever they want.

Among this summer's series (we've compiled 24 below, but there will be many more that can be consulted in our series calendar), there are several calls to be great successes, in true cinematic blockbuster style.

Titles that have already started have been left out, such as

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The summer will close with the starting signal for the battle of the year for the scepter of fantasy epic on television, the confrontation between the

prequels and

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-Westworld

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Fourth installment of the science fiction series in which humans and robots coexist while the latter become aware of what they are and claim their place in the world and their humanity.

Thandie Newton and Aaron Paul, in the fourth season of 'Westworld'.John Johnson/HBO

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In the second season of the series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, the trio will have to find out who killed Bunny to free themselves of that accusation.

-Stranger

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The two final chapters of its fourth season will have an extra duration: the last one will exceed two and a half hours.

With the truth about Vecna ​​resolved and Hopper released from prison, the characters face a crucial new battle.

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Chris Pratt plays a Marine whose platoon is ambushed.

Returning home, his guilt is raised as he uncovers new evidence that points to dark forces working against him.

Chris Pratt, in 'The Final List'.

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Spanish series that follows a group of teenagers who embark on a road trip aimlessly.

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Arturo Valls plays a comedian who ends up in prison for a joke.

He will now have to get used to his new life in prison, where he will have to spend two years and one day.

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Spanish series that takes place on one night, Christmas Eve, when a group of armed men surround a prison with the intention of taking a dangerous murderer, but the prison director is willing to resist the attack.

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Dennis Lehane is responsible for this series that follows a young man who must choose between serving his sentence or entering a maximum security prison and befriending a serial killer to get a confession.

-The

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Elle Fanning stars in this story based on the true case of a young woman who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide through text messages.

Elle Fanning, star of 'The Girl From Plainville'.

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On July 12, the fourth season of this comedy that follows the day-to-day life of a group of vampires who share a house today will premiere in the United States on FX.

-Better

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Second and final part of the last season of the series that follows the transformation of Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman.

The fate of Kim, increasingly involved in the shady affairs of her husband, is the great mystery to be solved.

-Atlanta

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Donald Glover is the creator and protagonist of this comedy that in its third season takes its characters on a tour of Europe while they process the success they have achieved.

-Resident

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Years after a deadly virus caused a global apocalypse, Jade Wesker struggles to survive in a world overrun by infected and insane creatures in this adaptation of the famous video game.

-Dark

Two Navajo police officers in the 1970s investigate a double murder that forces them to question their own spiritual beliefs in this critically acclaimed series starring Zahn McClarnon.

Zahn McClarnon, in the series 'Dark Winds'.Michael Moriatis/Stalwart Productions/AMC (© 2021 Stalwart Productions)

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Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in this miniseries about the 1984 murder of a woman in a Mormon neighborhood in Salt Lake City and the investigation of a fellow Mormon detective.

-Paper

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Based on a comic book, the series follows four young women who, while delivering newspapers in the morning after Hollywood in 1988, are caught up in a war between time travelers that sends them on an adventure to save the world.

-Queer

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New version of the British series about the LGBT world created by Russell T. Davies that follows a diverse group of friends living, this time, in New Orleans whose lives take a turn after a tragedy.

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Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic that mixes modern myth and legend to follow the people and places affected by Morpheus, the King of Sleep, while repairing the mistakes he has made in his existence.

-A

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Inspired by the film

follows a group of women who dream of playing professional baseball while delving into issues such as race and sexuality as the characters make their way on and off the pitch.

A still from 'A League of Their Own.' Anne Marie Fox (Anne Marie Fox/Prime Video)

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The comedy that follows the adventures of young Devi, an American Indian teenager, continues as she deals with the day to day at school and the increasingly complex love triangle with Ben and Paxton.

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Tatiana Maslany stars as a single, thirtysomething lawyer who specializes in superhero cases and who happens to have the power to turn into a super-powerful six-foot green mass.

-Bad

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Sharon Horgan is the creator and star of this dark comedy/thriller series that follows the Garvey sisters on the Irish coast after the untimely death of her parents.

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prequel

novel

, set 200 years before the parent series, tells the story of the Targaryen house.

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Set in Middle-earth created by JRR Tolkien, its plot takes place thousands of years before the events narrated in

and

, in an era in which, after relative peace, evil resurfaces.

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