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Ten must-see series coming to streaming and cable in May

2023-05-02T01:57:01.518Z


After the furor generated at the end of April by the premiere of 'Love after love', the fifth month brings a handful of very good productions.


Love after love,

Fito Páez

's biopic , is on the lips of almost all Netflix Argentina users.

Those who saw it, those who haven't yet, those who abandoned it, those who recommended it, those who...

The thing is, it's fiction that gave and will give people talk.

It premiered in the last week of April and

will try to face the bunch of good productions that arrive in May

.

Here, a

top ten

must-see series.

To read, schedule and then watch

.

1) fatal attraction

Monday 1st, by Paramount+

"Fatal attraction", but now in an episodic version.

The series, which will premiere its first three episodes and then one every week, is

a profound reinvention of the well-remembered 1987 psychosexual thriller

 -starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close-.

From the hand of screenwriter and

showrunner

Alexandra Cunningham, now offers

an updated look at privilege, personality disorders, family dynamics and murder

.

In the present, Daniel Gallagher (

Joshua Jackson

) is paroled after serving 15 years in prison for killing Alexandra Forrest

(Lizzy Caplan

), with the goal of reconnecting with his family and proving his innocence.

2) White House Plumbers

Monday the 1st, on HBO and HBO Max

"White House Plumbers".

Starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, this

five-episode miniseries

tells the story of how two intelligence officers who wanted to sabotage then-President Richard Nixon's opposition

ended up bringing down the presidency they were dedicated to protecting

.

Created by David Mandel, the series follows in

a tone of political satire

the story E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), who were

important figures in the Watergate scandal

, perhaps the most resonant in political history. from United States.

3) A Small Light

Tuesday 2, on Disney+ and Star+

Original from the National Geographic channel, it is based on the true story of Miep Gies (Bel Powley),

the young employee of Anne Frank's father

, Otto (Liev Schreiber), who

did not hesitate to help him and his family hide from the Nazis.

during world war II.

Miep and her husband Jan (Joe Cole), along with others,

cared for the Franks and two other Jewish families, the Van Pels and Pfeffer

, during the two years they were hidden in the secret annex of an Amsterdam building, until finally They were discovered and sent to the concentration camps.

A Small Light |

Official Trailer |

Disney+

4) Condor One Zero Five

Thursday 4, by Counting

Based on real events, the historical fiction that arrives on streaming on May 4 (and on Public TV, at 10:30 p.m.) 

recreates the events known as Operativo Cóndor

, which occurred in 1966, when a group of idealistic young people diverted a commercial plane to the Falkland Islands and

planted the national flag for the first time in 133 years

.

One episode (out of 8) per week will be uploaded to the platform.

The cast is made up of María Abadi, Nicolás Mateo and Julián Tello, among others.

CONDOR, one-zero-five / PREMIERE MAY 4 22:30 @TVPublicaArgentina

5) Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Thursday 4, on Netflix

Focusing on Queen Charlotte's rise to power and popularity, this prequel to the

Bridgerton

universe  tells

the story of the young monarch's union with King George, which was not only a great love story but also a turning point.

at a social level in the England of 1800 recreated by the strip.

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

Photo: Netflix

That marriage forged the high-society traditions that the

Bridgerton

characters inherited .

The renowned producer and writer

Shonda Rhimes

is the

showrunner

of the series.

6) Gamer

Thursday 4, by Flow

Recently separated and in the midst of a personal crisis, Oscar (

Nicolás García Hume

) reconnects with his glory days of the 2000s, when he was a legend of video games at the height of cybers.

He is still as good as before, but now the environment has changed a lot and

gamers can be professionals and play championships for a lot of money.

Produced by Flow, Planta Alta, the Ministry of Culture of the Nation and the Secretary of Media and Public Communication, it recounts the generational clash that occurs when Oscar tries to recover his golden years by joining the Warriors gaming team, made up

of

those

who They could be your children

.

7) Silo

Friday the 5th, on Apple TV+

Based on Hugh Howey

's trilogy of dystopian novels

,

Silo

tells the story of the last 10,000 people on Earth

and their mile-deep home that protects them from the toxic and deadly world outside.

However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and

anyone who tries to find out faces fatal consequences

.

Rebecca Ferguson plays Juliette

, an engineer looking for answers about the murder of a loved one, only to encounter a mystery that goes beyond what she could have imagined.

Comprised of

10 episodes

, the series co-stars the likes of

Tim Robbins, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, David Oyelowo, and Rashida Jones

.

Silo — Official Trailer |

AppleTV+

8) Planners

Friday the 5th, by Star+

With a cast headed by

Celeste Cid, Leticia Siciliani, Gonzalo Valenzuela and Guillermo Pfening

, this nine-episode dramatic comedy follows the story of Malena Carregal, a woman who, after her recent divorce, leaves her job at the renowned event organization agency of his ex, to undertake the project he always dreamed of:

his own agency for organizing social events

.

Planners the new Star+ series with Celeste Cid and Gonzalo Valenzuela.

Executive produced and advised by renowned

event planner

Bárbara Diez (Horacio Rodríguez Larreta's ex-wife)

, the series combines elements of comedy, drama and romance.

9) Fear the Walking Dead

Monday 15, on AMC (8th season)

The eighth and final season of the first spin-off of the extremely popular zombie saga of

The Walking Dead

will premiere on May 15 at 11 p.m., with a plot that begins

seven years after the season 7 finale

, when Morgan's (Lennie James) and Madison (Kim Dickens) didn't go as planned.

Fear The Walking Dead Trailer |

The Final Season

10) FUBAR

Thursday 25, on Netflix

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 heads

FUBAR

: an action comedy about a CIA agent named Luke Brunner, who is on the brink of retirement but is forced back into the picture for one last job.

There he discovers that his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro), without his knowledge, is also in the CIA and now they

must face the mission together, with a father-daughter dynamic that will hinder everything

.

FUBAR |

Official trailer |

Netflix

With information from Telam

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Source: clarin

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