Shake and cheer! Guillermo del Toro, grand master of the dark imagination,ventures into a TV series. That is to say: the Mexican film director of Pan’sLabyrinth and The Shape of Water made two of the eight horror stories herselfand hired some of his favorite directors for the other episodes, includingJennifer Kent, praised for her horror film The Babadook.
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2. The Old Man
Race actors Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow face each other in Disney+’s newthriller series, as former CIA agent Dan Chase and the FBI agent tasked withtracking down Chase, respectively. Bridges and Lithgow? Those are at least twogood arguments to look at.
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3. Notre Dame: La part du feu
French director Hervé Hadmar was shooting a series for France 2 at the foot ofthe Eiffel Tower on April 15, 2019 when a fire broke out at Notre-Dame. He wasso impressed by the disaster that he created this six-part drama series basedon stories of the firefighters who fought the fire at France’s most famouscathedral.
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4. The Bear
The Bear follows a beardless young chef who takes over the family restaurantafter the death of his oldest brother. TV critics spill superlatives, notleast because of lead actor Jeremy Allen White’s intense portrayal. Theunexpected sweet of the TV fall.
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5. Everything Calls for Salvation
A young guy wakes up in a mental institution and is told that he has hadpsychosis. Loosely based on Daniele Mencarelli’s acclaimed novel of the samename. This is an ode to friendship, love and vulnerability.
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6. The Kaiserin
German costume drama in six parts about Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, betterknown as Sissi, who falls head over heels for the Austrian Emperor FranzJoseph. Brace yourself for romance, intrigue and the magnetic gaze of DevrimLingnau, who has the near-impossible task of making Romy Schneider forget.
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7. The Rehearsal
Comedian Nathan Fielder is the Socially Incapable Michael of the US. Hedirects and presents The Rehearsal. The starting point? As a socialexperiment, he will help people live their lives. Fielder is convinced that hecan remove their insecurity by rehearsing important moments in advance down tothe smallest detail.
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8. Candy
Another fiction series based on true events: Jessica Biel got an eightiespoodle haircut for her role as Candy Montgomery, a Texas stay-at-home momaccused of slaughtering her neighbor with an axe. Coincidentally, the deadneighbor is also the wife of the man with whom she is having an affair.
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9. The Playlist
Now that everyone has the app, we sometimes forget how revolutionary Spotifywas back then. The Playlist, a fiction series about its origin, emphasizesthis once again. It takes a few episodes for The Playlist comes under steam(the first two episodes are biting), but this series is doing something TheBig Short did before the credit crunch in 2008.
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10. Shantaram
This fiction series is also based on true events. Although the Australianwriter Gregory David Roberts does not take it as closely with the truth in hisnovel on which this series is inspired. It is certain that, like his maincharacter Lin, he escaped from an Australian cell and went into hiding inIndia for years. In the series, Charlie Hunnam plays Robert’s alter ego.