For the Lopezes, the Disney subscription came home to see the highly acclaimed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Something similar has been happening at the house of the MartÃnez, the Ãlvarez and many other homes with The Mandalorian.
What they could not even imagine is that these superheroes and supervillains in fantastic worlds would be the key that would open the door for the whole family to discover many other titles that have nothing to do with what one expects to find under the Disney brand. And here I can speak in the first person. He entered the house three years ago to please the father and son eager to see The Mandalorian. Taking advantage of the fact that we already had the subscription, I devoured the last seasons of Grey’s Anatomy. When I finished them, I went back to the first chapters, with Dr. Meredith Gray taking her first steps through the hospital.
Thus I have been discovering many other titles that I would never have imagined finding under the umbrella of Disney, until arriving at my latest discovery: Almas en Pena de Inisherin, a feature film that is torn between black comedy and harsh drama about two friends from all over the world. life that one fine day cease to be.
Very different stories make this streaming platform the favorite of all families. A meeting point for children, where there is also content for the adult public, with proposals ranging from superheroes, to animation classics and the great Hollywood dramas.
If there’s one platform where superheroes feel right at home, it’s Disney. Now, not all superheroes wear capes. They don’t even need to have superpowers. What do you like superheroes of a lifetime? You have Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, where its protagonists fight and engage in all sorts of alliances and deceit to gain control of Wakanda.
But all these adventures have nothing to envy to the sleeplessness, love, heartbreak and desire to improve life or death of Dr. Meredith Gray and the entire medical team at Gray Sloan Memorial, the fictional hospital where the plots of the Grey’s Anatomy series.
They are those heroes without a cape or superpowers, but capable of changing the world wielding a scalpel, resuscitation blades or the latest in surgery. Well narrated plots that hook you from start to finish. Not in vain, Grey’s Anatomy is one of the greatest series in the history of television and can now be enjoyed with all its seasons on Disney.
Just when you think Disney is just for kids, emotionally complicated titles like The Bear arrive and show you that this house is much more than you imagined. Are you passionate about cooking and lifelong animation with fantastic characters capable of speaking to humans? There’s Ratatouille, a cartoon rat who talks, cooks and helps a kitchen helper on the brink of despair.
What is only intuited in Ratatouille – the stress between pans and dressings – is what leads the protagonist of The Bear, a successful chef, to abandon haute cuisine to dedicate himself to the humble family sandwich shop in Chicago. The Bear is one of those shows with a top-down approach – a successful chef in haute cuisine who takes refuge in a mundane kitchen – that makes you wonder if it is really worth burning yourself out in hostile work environments and if you will not be in that maelstrom losing real life An apt metaphor for our society, capable of immolating itself in order to achieve professional success, but which leaves the way free for those who choose to follow another path.
They instill in us from childhood that friendships must be cultivated, that a friend is a treasure and that with friends, things turn out better. Then The Mandalorian arrives and makes it clear to you that he can be a lonely guy, a bounty hunter with questionable morals, and make his way through life without great friendships.
One fine day you run out of three seasons of The Mandalorian and the algorithm suggests Inisherin’s Banshee Souls, with Colin Farrell as the protagonist displaying an impeccable Irish accent. You enter and you don’t want to leave until you find out where the breakdown of friendship between two rude Irishmen ends on the island of Insherin. Here there are no galaxies, no spaceships, but seedy taverns, cattle, pints and tedium, a lot of tedium, as befits a small island with few inhabitants where any brawl between neighbors becomes the local talk. And where the fights are carried to their ultimate consequences. The film garnered nine nominations in the last edition of the Oscars and, although it did not win any statuette, it is one of the most exciting premieres this year.
And that is the greatness of Disney. A house that you arrive looking for some titles and you stay forever enjoying a catalog that never ceases to amaze you.
