This week comes with two powerful titles that focus on climate change. These are ‘The fifth day’, from Movistar Plus+, and ‘A challenging future’, from Apple TV+. Without a doubt, these are series that will surprise you due to the hardness of their stories and the realism with which they raise issues that could affect our lives much sooner than we think.
To lighten the type of content we also have other series such as the award-winning ‘Ted Lasso’, a comedy that with its third and final season will close a story marked by passion, friendship, betrayals and the desire to believe with the most unlikely , if pursued vehemently, can become a reality. But there is much more, so we leave you a video in the header and a complete list with all the premieres so you don’t miss a thing.
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‘The fifth day’ T1, Monday March 13
Strange events begin to occur in the oceans at different points on the planet. The scientific community is alert when they realize that they could be interconnected. A strange form of intelligence could be organizing what could be compared to a natural army willing to kill off humans to protect their habitat. Dangerous bacteria infiltrating water sources, shellfish with the ability to expel poison or whales with unusual aggressiveness and qualities for destruction would be just one example of their soldiers. Although it might seem somewhat fanciful, the truth is that the visual makeup of the series is surprising and makes you see that its theme is treated with more realism than it might seem from its description.
Among its central characters are Leon Anawak and Charlie Wagner. He is a cetacean zoologist trying to understand what is happening to the whales in Canada. Ella, a biologist studying serious anomalies in the North Sea. This fiction has Frank Doelger, one of the executive producers of ‘Game of Thrones’ and is based on the novel Der Schwarm, by Frank Schätzing, which sold more than four and a half million copies in Germany alone.
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‘Van Der Valk’ S3, Tuesday March 14
The cunning detective Piet Van der Valk, played by Mark Warren, continues to solve the most complex cases in the city of Amsterdam thanks to his analytical skills and audacity. The criminal scene in the city is increasingly aggressive and he is willing to answer with the same weapons, even if he must do so within the margins of justice. The series, whose first season premiered in 2020 in the United Kingdom, is a remake of the original from the 70s, which starred Barry Foster.
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‘Marriage’ T1, Tuesday March 14
The British series is an emotional drama that follows the ups and downs of a couple who have been married for 27 years. They have good moments and also others that are not so good due to fear, jealousy, insecurities and a certain degree of exhaustion with life. But the complicity they show, typical of a long relationship, makes them particularly endearing. Their daily life, however, is also plagued by completely absurd discussions that they surely wouldn’t dare to have with anyone else.
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‘Ted Lasso’ S3, Wednesday March 15
The already well-known and award-winning series, characterized by its unwavering positivism, returns with the great Roy Kent ready to conquer viewers again with his natural grace. His character, American football manager Ted Lasso, who closed the second season by leading AFC Richmond to the Premier League, must deal with a betrayal.
Their players will try to transfer the energy that unites them in the dressing room to the field to prevent the omens of the journalists who place them in last place in the league from coming true. But neither they nor Lasso forget that now their technical assistant will play against them, after having left with West Ham United.
‘A challenging future’ T1, Friday March 17
The consequences of climate change translated into reality through an eco-drama that narrates a desperate daily life in which, however disappointing it may be, we can all see ourselves reflected. With Edward Norton and Meryl Streep among its cast, the most selfish and irrational human qualities coexist in this compendium of stories interspersed with endless dreams that are broken when the planet begins to move at full speed in the opposite direction to the noblest desires of The humanity. A series that brings us closer to the possibility that, before we think about it, it is already too late.
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‘Accused’ T1, Wednesday March 15
It is an American production based on the 2010 British series of the same name, broadcast in its day by the BBC. Each chapter is conclusive and tells a criminal case that will show that things are rarely what they seem. Meanwhile, a successful neurosurgeon suspects his son of planning to carry out a school shooting after discovering one of his journals. The father will try to avoid it but it will be impossible for him and he ends up being judged for possible complicity in the tragedy that the young man will finally carry out with the help of another friend.
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‘Shadow and Bone’ T2, Thursday March 16
Based on the bestsellers set in Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse, she returns for a second season of ‘Shadow and Bone’ with new friendships, new loves, mighty battles, epic adventures, and a startling family secret that could prove catastrophic. Alina Starkov has gone on the run. Ray of hope for some and suspected of treason for others, the young woman is determined to end the Shadow and prevent the destruction of Ravka. But General Kirigan has returned to finish what he started. Commanding a terrifying new army of sinister, seemingly indestructible monsters and terrifying grisha recruits, Kirigan is more dangerous than ever.
To stand up to her, Alina and Mal turn to their powerful new allies and embark on a journey across the continent in search of two legendary beings capable of enhancing Alina’s powers. Meanwhile, in Ketterdam, the Ravens forge new alliances as they face old rivals and grudges that go back even further; threats that pose a danger not only to their position in the Barrel, but to their lives. When the opportunity for a very dangerous strike arises, the Ravens once again face off against the legendary Suncaller.
‘Up to the sky: the series’ T1, Friday March 17
This is the sequel, in serial format, to the homonymous film that told the story of a group of aluniceros who operated in Madrid. Their criminal activity has always been commanded by the Angel, their leader, and subject to a superior criminal force, that of the mobster Rogelio, who has a mafia network of stolen objects. With Ángel already dead, his widow Sole, played by Asia Ortega, who is also Rogelio’s daughter, must seize power. The accounts do not come out, less and less money comes in and she thinks that her father’s methods, in addition to being dangerous, are obsolete.
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‘Astrid and Lilly save the world’ T1, Thursday March 16
Two true high school nerds destined for a great cause that their classmates are completely unaware of. Astrid and Lilly, played by Jana Morrison and Samantha Aucoin, have their lives miserable in high school. For many students they are a bunch of misfits who will never do anything with their lives. But things are not what they seem, and their true abilities may surprise them when they discover the secret passageway to a ghostly dimension. The monsters they will have to fight will further complicate their lives.
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‘The cases of Pearl Nolan’ T1, Sunday March 19
With her adult son, Pearl, a single mother, she pursues her lifelong dream and opens a private detective agency, which she runs out of her family’s restaurant in the seaside town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, the locals soon come to her with all sorts of cases. When Pearl Nolan discovers the body of her friend Vinnie Rowe chained to the anchor of her boat, she sets out to investigate even though the police believe it was an accident. To try to clarify what happened, she will have the complicity of Inspector MdGuire, a new commander recently arrived from London to escape the problems of her past.
