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What TV shows are we waiting for in November
“She is Grace,” Chernobyl, call girl, “punisher” from Marvel, Westerns and Lenin
In November, Russian television channels celebrate the centenary of the revolution, Starz releases the second season of “Call Girls”, and Netflix is already representing the third television film adaptation of Romanov Margaret Etwood this year-the mini-series “She is also Grace”. Film critic Yegor Moskvitin tells what other serial news it is worth paying attention to this month.
She is Grace (Alias Grace)
From November 3 on Netflix
The fans of the “American gods” Neil Gaiman remember and love the chapter about the red -haired Irish girl who brought Lepreecons to the New World. A thief, a hard labor, an adventurer and a little witch, she masterfully ruled the men - and so cleverly pretended to be a victim that it acted even for readers. Based on the book of Margaret Etwood (author of the “Holder's Tale”) and real events, the Netflix mini-series “Her also Grace” is very reminiscent of this fairy tale of Heyman. The heroine is a girl from Ireland, who escaped to Canada, who arranged a maid there, who committed the murder and for 15 years, who had been in prison. The very moment of the crime and entire pieces of the former life, she does not remember - what attracts the attention of the psychotherapist. The psychotherapist is a fictional character, but Grace Marx really existed in the 19th century, but historians are still not sure exactly what she had done and who exactly yelled. The impenetrable and beautiful actress Sarah Gadon perfectly approached this role, but it cannot be said that for her this is a breakthrough: in the last year’s film “Ninth Louis Drakes”, she already played a similar role - predators and victims.
Girlfriend Experience
Since November 5, on Starz, from November 6 at Amediathek
Due to recent events with the “card house”, the second season of “Call Girls” can be the main series about politics. One of the plot lines talks about how to survive in Washington, the second recalls “all heavy”: the ex-call girl moves to New Mexico and is trying to start a new life under the witness protection program. Four of 14 episodes of the new season showed at the Toronto festival - and there they brought critics in moderate delight.
Demon of the revolution
Since November 5 on the channel "Russia"
The new series of Vladimir Khotinenko, inherits all the signs of two old ones - “Demons” and “Dostoevsky”: a craving for journalism; Powerful acting work (in this case, Evgenia Mironov, Maxim Matveev and Fedor Bondarchuk) and anxiety about Russia, which is difficult not to share, even if you do not agree with the author’s idea. And the idea here is this: the cunning oligarch and the ambitious “demon” ruined the country for the money of German interventionists. Since the company Melkumov and Rodnyansky was engaged in production, the series looks rich.
Trotsky
From November 6 to the first
The series of Alexander Tsekalo and Konstantin Ernst, who seemed to be the function of a security alarm. But in reality, the charisma of Konstantin Khabensky gives a completely opposite result: a feeling of injustice in the viewer exacerbates, and Trotsky appears to be a pretty antihero.
Damnation (Damnation)
Since November 7 on USA Network and Netflix (outside the United States)
Western about the confrontation of the priest (and maybe charlatan) and the magnate in America of the 30s. The priest inspires farmers from Aiova to arrange a strike - to raise prices for their goods. The tycoon hires a murderer-murderer, who kills one of the hard workers in the very first series, and then fifteen for about fifteen minutes with his corpse in the best traditions of “cargo 200”. In the following episodes - the lynching of a white man for a connection with a black woman; revolutionary sermons in the church; Even more blood. In America, the series has already collected a very good press; In Russia, its journalistic component is not so important, so a little more questions arise for a leisurely narrative. But to give a “damned nation” a chance is at least for the sake of actor Logan Marshall-Grin-a demonic double of Tom Hardy, known for the “Kurri mercenary”.
Chernobyl, season 2
From November 10 on TV-3
A little “black mirror”, a little “man in a high castle” - this strange Russian series comes up with an alternative story in which modern Moscow lobotracs prevent the Chernobyl disaster, and the effect of a butterfly turns the US territory into radioactive dust. The second season begins with the fact that the tragedy at the nuclear power plant still occurred, but in America. Heroes find themselves on a foreign land and try to survive in the realities of "crazy Max." Filming took place in the USA. All this is so wild that it is a sin not to see.
Monster (Monster)
Since November 13 on Russian Spike
The Scandinavian Neonour, already marked by the prize for the most original scenario at the 2017 European Script Award and sold to many countries of the world, including Russia. Although the original in it, it would seem, is not so much: again the gloomy hinterland; Again, the meeting and confrontation of two detectives - a local detective and inspector from the capital; Again the parallels between private pathologies and the problems of the whole society. But after the series "occupation" Norway became an important point on the map of the television world. So it will not be superfluous to go there again - what if it is a reincarnation of the “murder” and “Broadschch”?
Walking through torment
Since the end of November on NTV
The contribution of the NTV channel to the celebration of the centennial of the revolution: the expensive film adaptation of the trilogy of Alexei Tolstoy with Anna Chipovskaya and Julia Snigir in the roles of the Bulavin sisters (as well as with Leonid Bichevin, Alexander Yatsenko, Andrei Merzlikin, Svetlana Khodchenkova and Evgeny Podchkin). The series of Channel One "Trotsky" inventively finds a mystical explanation of the revolution; The series “Russia” Demon of the Revolution habitually describes the conspiracy theory, but not one of them affects the divine version. Since the novel by Alexei Tolstoy relies on the apocrypha about how the Virgin helped sinners in hell abandoned there Christ, and represents Russia to a country stored by the Virgin, the NTV canal can be preliminarily congratulated on the fact that at a round table the revolution, he took the most profitable place. Under the icon.
Future Man (Future Man)
From November 13 to Hulu
Comedy from the insightful vulgarities of Set Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The protagonist looks like Josh Hutcrasson from Hunger Games, but leads a worthless existence - it works as a cleaner during the day, and at night it cuts into your favorite video game. After the next virtual record, travelers in time are associated with it, they say that his skills will be useful in the salvation of mankind and send to the past-to get acquainted with Michael Jackson, to ridicule cliches from the films of the 80s and nostalgic for childhood. The series can turn out to be both tasteless obscenities and a sentimental candy for those who are not enough “very strange things”.
Punisher.
From November 17 on Netflix
Netflix can already boast of the successful serial restart of “Solders” - the Marvel comic, which is not very lucky with the film. Now the turn of the "punisher" has come. Dolf Londgren, Thomas Jane and Ray Stevenson played in various film versions of the lone avenger, and in television will be replaced by the sought -after actor John Bernal - the star of “Walking Dead”, “Rage”, “Burning Revenge” and a good, but rapidly covered series “City of gasters”. Judging by the metal soundtrack and the pitch nuar in the frame, Netflix makes a show for those who are united by the Marvel Cinema -Ciliated seem to be too rainbow and funny. Therefore, the series will remind not only comics, but also films about the dirty Harry and the game about Max Payne.
Fugitives
From November 21 to Hulu
Another telecomix from the Marvel repertoire, which may turn out to be the new “Breakfast” club, “enchanted”, “Ellen and the guys”, “Kingsman” or “Riverdale” (although the last two are not very old). Heroes are six teenagers who discovered that their parents are supervillains. The children's own superpowers are immediately directed from harmfulness to the service of good.
Forgotten by God (Godless)
From November 22 on Netflix
A 7-Serial Western, in which women are no less dangerous than men. They are here, like the fourth album of The Prodigy - “Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned”. That is, they are not inferior in the ability to handle weapons, but are inferior to the number: on three actresses-Michelle Dokkeri, Merritt Wyver and Whitney Ebble-there is a dozen recognizable male actors. Among them are Jeff Daniels with his comrade in the “News Service” Sam Waterston, Thomas Brody-Sangster from the “Game of Thrones”, Scheut Makneyri from “Stop and Gori” and Jack Okkonnell from “Unlivisled” Angelina Jolie. The shootout promises to be noble.
Amazing Mrs. Mars. Maisel)
From November 29 on Amazon Prime
Amazon posted the pilot of this series on the network in the spring - and collected so many laudatory reviews that he ordered two seasons at once. Place of action is New York of 1958, the main character is a housewife who spent all herself to help her husband succeed. He paid off by honestly admitted to treason and fled. The heroine decided that the best way to survive is to achieve recognition in the same area as her unfortunate spouse. Only now this area is a stand-up comedy, and sixty years ago, Jewish women were not happy there. In the title role, it turned out to be a strong comedy actress Rachel Brosnaeen from the Card House.
Egor Moskvitin