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Bald girl, hacker and horses
8 TV shows that we watch this summer
"Medusa" irregularly reports on the series that the editorial staff watch (the last time we did this in May ). Once on our list does not guarantee that the series is necessarily good, but this time-by a happy chance-there was not a single really bad series in it.
Stranger Things (very strange things)
Who makes Netflix
How many episodes were 8 out of 8
What comes from a secret laboratory in the small town of Indiana, a strange something runs out and abducts a little geek, causing a strong concern to his friends. At the same time, a bald girl with paranormal abilities comes out of the forest. Further - and really very strange things that do not tear themselves away.
Why watch the perfectly restored aesthetics of the 80s, which they turned into a myth: the soundtrack from The Clash, Joy Division and Syntipop; Aesthetics of a cheap horror, successfully combined with the history of growing up in the spirit of John Hughes; What is there - even the credits here do not cause a desire to squeeze them out. A separate joy is the fact that the authors got rid of the stamps characteristic of the genres on which they are guided by; For example, here almost no one is in doubt the existence of htonic monsters and other dimensions.
The Night of (one night)
Who makes HBO
How many episodes were 4 out of 8
What is the night in New York. The modest Pakistani student of the Nazi, who was born in America and further New York, has never left, sits down in his father’s taxi and goes to a party-he was called there a basketball player, from whom he is working as a tutor. Name does not reach the party, because he does not know how to turn off the “Taxi Free” light bulb: different people are constantly planting to it. Everyone manages to send, except for a sad girl who asks her to take her first to the beach, and then home. Nothing good comes out of this - pretty soon he will be in prison on suspicion of murder. Filmed according to the British series Criminal Justice, released in 2008 on BBC.
Why look at Egor Moskvitin, who just wrote to us about this text: “One night” is a very terrible fairy tale about the darkness. Everyone can be in place of the protagonist. And even if the Anglo -Saxon legal system with its precedents does not leave the victim of hope for a happy outcome, it is easy to imagine what would happen to such a guy as called us. “One night” is the case when the definition of the “judicial drama” describes not the genre, but the leitmotif. This is a tragedy about evil rock. And to make the viewer a fatalist, the entire film crew works immediately in it. ”
Mr. Robot (Mr. Robot)
Who makes USA
How many episodes were 5 out of 12 (2nd season)
What happens after in the first season the Elliot Alderson hacker (with a disorder in his head) and his friends hacked and overshadowed the entire world banking system, the main character continues to deal with the ghost of his own father, and the rest look sadly at the world, covered by crisis and panic.
Why watch the first season of Mr. Robot was really an exciting long -term variation on the theme of the Fight Club. The second, it would seem, should be even more interesting, because it begins where the “fighting club” ended. But the authors seem to have somewhat dumbfounded from their leftist courage, nothing noticeable has happened in half a season - the plot movement has slowed down and focused on the psychological problems of the characters. However, this is at least very beautifully shot.
Ballers (football players)
Who makes HBO
How many episodes were 3 out of 10 (2nd season)
What is happening in the Sunny Miami former football player Spencer Stesmore (Dwayne “Scala” Johnson) continues to be equipped in life after sports, solves problems with customers in agent business and a partner, funny gnome Joe, and also drinks medicines for unchilding pain. His younger friends still do not think about what they will do after the end of his career. Since the matter takes place in the USA, football, of course, is American.
Why look on the one hand, in the "football players" we are talking about things that are extremely far from Russia. On the other hand, a peppy and witty series about the rich, famous, unhappy and black looks great, even if you don’t know who the quoterback is. Let's just say: if you like Drake’s song and Lil Wayne on the introductory credits, everything else may like it.
OJ: Made in America (about Jay: done in America)
Who makes ESPN
How many episodes were 5 out of 5
What is happening a large smiling African-American about Jay Simpson first becomes a big star of the university football team, then-one of the best players in the history of NFL, and then the Hollywood star, who feels absolutely comfortably in the circle of the white elite of Los Angeles. Then the police finds the mutilated corpse of Simpson's ex -wife - and his life rolls downhill. The series is documentary and built on archival frames and replicas of a wide variety of people associated with the main character.
Why watch the process of Jay himself takes two and a half series here - of which people who watched the art “American history of crimes” that have been published in the winter are unlikely to learn a lot of new things. The main thing, however, is the context - thanks to a detailed story about what preceded the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and what was later “made in America” is almost perfect and the shortest possible guide to racial relations in America in all their painful contradictory.
Bojack Horseman.
Who makes Netflix
How many episodes were 12 out of 12 (3rd season)
What is the satirical animated series about Hollywood, where people look like animals.
Why watch in a sense the animated version of Californication is the main character mired in drunkenness and self-abasement, the forgotten star of one series returns to Bolshaya Hollywood. Absurd black humor, fixation of the spirit of time, existential topics, sex, violence, drugs and so on. The role of a friend of the protagonist is voiced by Jesse from "To the Great."
Preacher (preacher)
Who makes AMC
How many episodes were 10 out of 10
What is happening as a preacher with a dark past from a small Texas town is looking for God in the company of an ex-girlfriend with a violent disposition and a drinking vampire-Irish.
Why watch Vertigo's adaptation of Vertigo comics is made by Set Rogen, who tried to preserve the aesthetics of the provincial south, delightful characters, and anticlerical humor on the verge of absurdity-accompanying this with luxurious action scenes.
Orange is a new black (orange - hit season)
Who makes Netflix
How many episodes have been released 13 out of 13 (4th season)
That a girl is going on without a criminal past gets into jail. The new - and the best - the season of the main one after the "Card House" of the Netflix series.
Why look at the fourth season “Orange - Hit of the Season” almost completely ceases to be ridiculous and finally brings to the forefront of all the most interesting characters in the Lichfield prison. Sometimes it seems that the creators simply forgot to write a script for the main character Piper Chepman - at first everything is happening in prison. It doesn’t get worse from this: Chepman managed to fog in three seasons, and when other heroines are revealed, the series only wins, and sometimes breaks the heart. In terms of intensity and drama, the new season surpasses all the previous ones by many times, and the ending causes a desire to quickly teleport in the summer of 2017 and see what happens next. The generic injuries of the series have not gone anywhere: the drama sometimes borders on the farce, and sometimes passes into it, but it is difficult to break away.
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