A June with many returns and appetizing news. Our favorite friends from New York (And just like that, HBO Max, day 22) and Madrid (Valeria, Netflix, 2), the most brilliant CIA agent (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Amazon Prime Video, 30), return. the most handsome sorcerer (The Witcher, Netflix, 29) and the most romantic love story (Outlander, Movistar Plus, 17). It will also be time to say goodbye to the passengers who, after a transatlantic flight, were missing for five years in Manifest (Netflix, 2). And among the novelties to be aware of are the following.
THE DAYS Netflix (Thursday 1)
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan, causing the biggest nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The Fukushima Daiichi plant was badly damaged and on the verge of collapse. This Japanese production recreates the nuclear incident from three different angles: that of the government, that of the companies involved, and that of the people who risked their lives at the scene. Based on exhaustive research and on the homonymous book by journalist Ryûshô Kadota.
THE IDOL HBO Max (lunes 5)
Received with disparate opinions at the Cannes Film Festival, it is one of the most anticipated series due to the presence of Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye, protagonist and co-creator along with Sam Levinson (Euphoria) and Reza Fahim. After a nervous breakdown derailed her latest tour, Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) is determined to reclaim her rightful status as America’s biggest and sexiest pop star. Her passions reignite with, a nightclub businessman with a sordid past.
THE INVISIBLE Sky Showtime (Monday 5)
Héctor Lozano (MerlÃ) is the creator of this series starring Lolita Flores, MarÃa Pujalte, Yoshira Escárrega, Paula del RÃo, Paula Mirá, Yaël Belicha and Elena Irureta. The plot revolves around a group of chambermaids who clean the rooms of a luxury hotel in the Mediterranean, while trying to restructure their own lives. The series optimistically portrays the reality of women who struggle to earn a living but who always have a moment to smile.
THE CROWDED ROOM Apple TV (viernes 9)
Thriller starring and produced by Tom Holland that tells the story of Danny Sullivan, a man who is arrested after his participation in a shooting in New York City in 1979. The story is told through a series of interviews with the curious interrogator Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried): Danny’s life unravels to reveal elements of his mysterious past, and the twists that will lead him to have a life-changing epiphany.
RAPA Movistar Plus (Thursday 15)
Rapa is not a novelty but it is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated series of the season. The second season takes Maite (Mónica López) and Tomás (Javier Cámara) to Ferrol, a place where two unsolved cases will unite them again. She will enter the Arsenal, a hermetic world rigid by very strict rules, where an officer has disappeared. He will insist on solving a murder case that he is about to prescribe after 20 years.
THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY AMC (lunes 19)
Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprise their characters as Maggie and Negan in this spin-off of The Walking Dead. The two protagonists embark on a journey to a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long isolated from the mainland. The city in ruins is full of the dead and inhabitants who have made New York their own city of anarchy, danger, beauty and terror.
THE NIGHTS OF TEFIA Atresplayer Premium (Sunday 25)
Series that recovers one of the most unknown episodes in the history of Spain: the Francoist concentration camp that between the fifties and sixties imprisoned in Fuerteventura those convicted by the Law of Vagrants and Crooks and that, from 1954, also the homosexuals. The protagonists of the series, in order to survive the harsh conditions of the acquaintance with the euphemistic Colonia AgrÃcola Penitenciaria de TefÃa, imagine a dream place where their fantasies come true. The cast includes Marcos Ruiz, Patrick Criado, Miquel Fernández and Jorge PerugorrÃa.
GREAT HOPES Disney (Wednesday 28)
Fionn Whitehead and Olivia Colman star in this new adaptation of the popular Charles Dickens novel. It tells the story of the coming of age of Pip, a young orphan who aspires to a better life until a twist of fate and the evil conspiracies of an eccentric Miss Havisham reveal a dark world of possibilities. Despite the high expectations placed on him, Pip will have to assess the true cost of this new world.
