Hundreds of series are broadcast every season, but it is almost impossible for four of the most important of recent times to say goodbye on the same dates. Between May 26 and 31, they say goodbye to the wonderful Mrs. Maisel. All significantly impacted today’s quality TV fiction, and the Emmys they rack up prove it. The reasons that place them on Olympus could not be more disparate: for breaking, talkative, aesthetic, witty, optimistic…
The spotlight first shone on Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) in March 2017. She was a housewife whose husband left her for a secretary and who, in a character twist, took the microphone in a Manhattan comedy. There he revealed his hardships with causticity and revealed himself as an irreverent voice in the conservative society of the fifties. After five seasons he faces his denouement after accepting a job as a screenwriter on a television show. This series has stood out for a careful setting and the speed and timing of dialogues very typical of Amy Sherman-Palladino ( Las chicas Gilmore ).
At HBO, they have an obsession with succession wars. If in Game of Thrones they kept the audience in suspense until the last episode to find out who sat on the Iron Throne, now the disputed power is that of Waystar Royco, the business conglomerate of the Roy family, escaped after the death of the patriarch and with three brothers thirsty for power. During four seasons, Succession, which premieres its last episode today, will have revealed itself as a comedy as witty as it is relentless about the high degree of psychopathy of the elites, who from living so disconnected from the common people develop a monstrous ability to forget- of humanity.
Unclassifiable comedy whose starting point is a hitman hired by the Chechen mafia who, when he infiltrates an acting class in Los Angeles for work, decides that this is his passion. Thus begins a story about the world of acting, a satirical look at low-level criminals and the post-traumatic stress suffered by its boring protagonist, played by Bill Hader, also screenwriter and director.
Ted Lasso. Next Wednesday will end its third season, which is assumed to be the last. The theory is this: Jason Sudeikis wants to leave the series, as he does not want to spend so much time away from his family as a result of filming in the UK, and the Ted Lasso universe will continue with a sequel. The character was invented to promote NBC’s sports shows, but Sudeikis, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence and Brendan Hunt took that wildly optimistic coach and wrote a series for him. Clueless about European football, he was hired by AFC Richmond, whose owner wanted to collapse the team for personal reasons, but found himself a being of light who improved the lives of the club’s players and staff through education, respect, hope and well-intentioned advice.
