What after "Game of Thrones" and "Chernobyl"? An HBO representative who's been a fan of both recommends "Years and Years". What else is coming up this summer? I've noted down the potentially interesting titles:
- "Big Little Lies" season 2 with a different director than season 1.
- "Krypton" season 2 - about Superman's grandfather, has superb music.
- Spanish "Los Espookys" - about horror fans who've turned their passion into a business, the trailer implies black humour.
- "The Loudest Voice" - about the Fox News founder.
- "Divorce" season 3 with Sarah Jessica Parker.
- "The Magicians" - about people who discover magic exists and is addictive, the trailer didn't convince me but the concept is intriguing.
- Spanish documentary series "El Pionero" - about Jesús Gil, a populist politician.
- "Pico da Neblina" - by the director of "Cidade de Deus" ("City of God"), about a drug dealer at the time when marijuana becomes legal.
- "Beforeigners" - people from the past, e.g. Stone Age, 19th century, Viking times turn up on the coast of Oslo and no one knows why.
- "Succession 2" - media, power, politics.
- "The Handmaid's Tale".
- "The Righteous Gemstones" - about deviant televangelists.
- "Catherine the Great".
- "Discovery of Witches" season 2.
- "Watchmen" - based on the graphic novel, by the director of "Leftovers".
- "His Dark Materials" - based on the novel by Philip Pullman, with James McAvoy, 6 episodes.
- "The "New Pope" with Jude Law, John Malkovich, Sharon Stone, Marilyn Manson.
- Czech "Bez vedomi" aka "The Sleepers" - late communism, a woman's dissident fugitive husband disappears when she's in hospital after a car crash they both were in.
- Romanian "Umbre" - about a taxi driver's double life, with dark humour.
- Polish "Wataha" season 3, 6 episodes - season 1 was autumn, season 2 winter and this one is spring, probably early judging from the snow in the trailer, this time the action includes Lviv and Odessa.
I'm mostly looking forward to "Beforeigners", "The Righteous Gemstones" and "The New Pope". In the meantime "Euphoria" starts today:
EUPHORIA EPISODE 1
Watchable. By Sam Levinson and similar to "Assassination Nation" in the way he sexualizes teenage girls. I repeat, this guy is disgustingly pervy. It's just ridiculous how the girl protagonists act exactly like guys do. The serial also glamorizes drug use. It doesn't change the fact the story's engaging. I wonder what's going to happen next to the drug-abusing narrator and her sex-crazed peers.
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