Where are the pilots fly

A year ago, the Internet giant Amazon decided to compete with Netflix on the production field and online positions of the series. Amazon ordered a number of pilots and posted them for free viewing, inviting the audience to solve the fate of potential television shows. Then only “Alpha House” , a political satire with John Gudman, turned out to be a decent spectacle. This year, Amazon beats much more precisely - four series received the order for full seasons: “Bosch” - a police detective with a rich literary past; “Mozart in the Jungle” - a comedy with a symphonic taste; “The After” - fantasy from the creator of “Secret Materials”; “Transparent” is a family drama that would not have been lost on the air of the HBO channel. Let there be no large fish like a “card house” in this quartet, but Amazon is definitely on the right track.

"Bosch" ("Bosch")

The fact that Bosch wants to be a harsh drama, he declares immediately - outside the window of the car, and the main character through his teeth hopes that the rain "will wash all this shit." A few minutes later, the water from the sky is mixed with blood on the pavement - the detective Bosch shot a man in an alley, who either jerked for a weapon, or simply slipped on wet asphalt. The authorities justified the shooting, but the family of the deceased went to the civil court for its millions.

It is still difficult to say how interesting the trial will turn out to be, but it seems that it will pass only by an optional dotted line in the complex biography of the hero. The Bosch detective is played by Titus Welliver (“Lost”) , whose type is a man who has seen so much darkness during his life that it was imprinted on his face. The series is based on a cycle of books by Michael Connelli, which is also declared a project showranner. Eric Overmayer (one of the creators of Treme ) helps him with the script, and in the end the unhurried police series with a gloomy workaholic in the center of the plot is obtained. This is a strong game in the proven genre - it is not surprising that the audience appreciated the Bosch pilot above other new products from Amazon . True, there is nothing to stand out against the backdrop of competitors: all hope for the children's bones buried in the forest with traces of violence - who knows which tombs of the Bosch detective these excavations will lead.

"Mozart in the jungle" ("Mozart in the Jungle")

The leadership of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra exchanged the aging conductor Thomas, who recently learned to write the SS (Malcolm MacDauwell), at the young overseas genius of Rodrigo, whose name everyone around is pronounced with a languid prying (Gael Garcia Bernal). Rodrigo has luxurious curls, inhuman hearing and spectacular habits - he gracefully turns the conductor’s wand into a rose, and suggests listening to the music in complete darkness. Thomas, in turn, creaks his teeth and does not intend to give up so easy.

The backstage wrestling between the two shiny conductors is only one of the plot lines of Mozart in the jungle, the symphonic comedy from Roman Coppola (“Amazing Fantasies Charlie Swan-Third”), Jason Schwartzman (the main face in “Bored to Death” ) and the Broadway director Alex Timbers. The series is based on the Memoirs of Goboist Blair Tindall, where classical music was scroll through a meat grinder of sex and drugs (sorry, rock and roll!). The Air Highway pilot “Mozart” manages to turn a metronome in Ganjan, a player playing a bottle into a flotist against the Goboist, and comments about Tchaikovsky’s plan - in the intimate classification of men according to their profession. The violinists, for example, quickly end up - all the fault of Arpegio, says the spectacular cellist Cynthia (Suffron Burrose, from whom James Spader was crazy at Boston Legal ).

Yes, the authors of Mozart look into the orchestral pits without trepidation and reverence, because the music is always more than the person who plays it. The series clearly answers the question of how to mix vomiting in a patrepon with the opera Carmen and not to screw up. But even with such a slight tonality “Mozart in the jungle” not to become a popular hit - this is the last time you saw in the series Solo Goboy?

"After" ("The After")

Instead of the desired dramatic role, the young Frenchwoman was again offered a party of a connected prostitute - why not a reason to send the whole world to Tartars? However, Chris Carter, the creator of “Secret Materials”, this seemed little - in his new project, “The After” , a whole regiment of archetypes flaunts in front of the camera. A rich widow, a vile lawyer, a French actress, a Briton-alcoholic, a prostitute-blonde, a dark-skinned convict, a woman-policeman and even an absurdity clown in complete combat coloring-all these people were stuck in the parking lot and met the apocalypse together. The end of the world is habitually furnished: helicopters fall from heaven, there are no electricity anywhere, and humanoids rustle in the dark bushes.

The adventures of the AFTER archetypes are already looking much better than the glossy Revolution apocalypse. Here they swear obscenities and run barefoot on dirty asphalt, plot riddles are dancing from the tattoos of the Uroboros to one on all the dates of birth, and the dark -skinned prisoner is smarter and braver than any man within a radius of 200 miles. “The After” there is something to scold, but the Huilty Pleasure bar of the Carter series takes without straining.

"Obvious" ("Transparent")

An elderly father calls for dinner his adult children: two daughters and a son. Those fall into ironic panic: “Dad never calls us! He must have cancer! ” And having gathered at the parental table, they behave like seven -year -olds who are quarreling with phrases overheard in adults. Dad’s news can repel an appetite from someone, but critics are already dancing on the tables, celebrating Amazon's creative success.

The advantages of "Transparent" are hidden in a prominent place - starting with a name that is not at all what it seems. It is generally difficult to talk about this show so as not to give out everything at once. "Transparent" enters the territory of HBO from the standpoint of strength-the problems of white people in the style of the indie film are presented talented, funny and honest. Roughly speaking, the series takes the best of Girls (a merciless search for oneself) and, oddly enough, from Six Feet under (desperate search for contact with another). Although there is actually nothing strange in the association with the family of the funeral house - the showranner of “Transparent” Jill Soloway was the screenwriter and producer “Six Feet Under” . So the story of another dysfunctional family is doomed to catharsis, which cannot be missed in any way.