1. The night agent
“In the basement of the White House,” the teaser trailer tells us, “there is an emergency phone that never rings. Until now.” Is there really an emergency phone in the White House basement? We have no idea. We haven’t been in the White House, and even if it is, it must be dirty from Donald Trump’s Cheetos fingers. In the case of Peter Sutherland, a low-ranking FBI agent who generally has to answer the phone, he also rings, and on the other end is an information security expert waiting for him who is under threat, which Peter, like a common antagonist, rushes to save. This single event catapults the junior agent into a huge conspiracy that reaches the Oval Office, because thrillers always have a huge conspiracy that reaches the Oval Office. Why doesn’t any conspiracy just reach the accounting floor?
Anyway, even though “Night Agent” sounds a bit like another young-and-handsome-spy-thriller from Netflix, it has a few surprises that hint that there is something deeper going on here this time – I mean, yes, there is a handsome FBI agent here (Gabriel Basso, “Super 8 “) who guards a beautiful girl (Lucian Buchanan), but the writer and creator of the series (which was adapted from a thriller by Matthew Quirk) is Sean Ryan, who you may remember from the masterpiece he led at the beginning of the millennium, “The Shield”. If he brings only a quarter of the roughness of that series, we and Peter will still get along very well. Just let him answer the phone.
“Agent of the Night”, now on Netflix
2. Heirs, Season 4
That’s it, it happened, and the hype couldn’t have been bigger: we already concluded the three the seasons the first ones its, We mourned the fact that its fourth season would be its lastand we are very ready to say goodbye to the huge “Heirs”, the best drama-comedy-opera-play-Shakespearean-financial section on television, which burst into our lives as if out of nowhere five years ago and became a monster of quotes, awards, insults, memes and bets on who will stand At the head of the giant company Wistar-Royko when the definitely last subtitle roller goes up.
The last season ended, as I remember, with a particularly exciting twist even by “Heirs” standards: precisely after the brothers of the Roy family – Kendall, Roman and Shiv, because no one counts Connor – finally managed to find themselves on the same side of the battle and unite to prevent the father from Their amazing and terrible, Logan Roy, to sell the company to an eccentric Scandinavian tech entrepreneur, it turns out that it is Tom, Shiv’s rag-tag husband who has been whispering the leaks in Logan’s ear for a whole season – and so they find themselves for the first time alone in the middle of the sea, without a place on the board of directors and without control of the corporation they are all That’s how they wanted her. It’s a fratricidal war that we’re totally into. That’s why we also started a regular recap.
3. YellowJackets
If a plane falls out of the sky into the endless snowy forests of Canada, with a group of teenage soccer girls inside, even God himself doesn’t know how bad it can get from there. This, by and large, is the idea behind “YellowJackets” (“Yellowjackets” here in Israel), which this week went up for a second season on Showtime after a first season that marked it as one of the most difficult and creepy series of this time, almost unbearably scary in the way it dismantles the common conceptions about young women who need survive and fight for their lives.
In the first season, it was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, not least thanks to a spectacular cast of actresses – including Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis and Lauren Ambrose – who make it one of the most all-female series on television. The series zigzags between two timelines, one follows their stories as young girls before and after the crash and the other when they are already grown women, and tells a story that is full of mystery, mysteries, secrets, lies and intrigue that are intertwined within each other. The result is a very dark plot, much more so than most of what is currently being broadcast on any screen, and if you like this kind of stuff it’s a celebration.
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Do you remember that parent meeting in the 7th or 8th grade, when the teacher sat in front of you and told you that you have potential but you are not realizing it? This is roughly what happens, at speeds, in the new Apple TV+ series “The Big Door Prize”, which is based on a book by M. A. Walsh and defined as a science fiction comedy. Chris Odwood is Dusty, a conventional 40-year-old American man. He works as a school teacher, is married to the love of his youth, and is the father of a teenage daughter. During one of his conventional visits to the conventional neighborhood grocery store, he encounters a mysterious machine that no one knows where it came from. It also looks a bit like an arcade machine from the eighties. But it’s a magic machine, prominently bearing the image of the butterfly (hey, you know the reference). In a rather low-tech way (printed card output). The machine reveals fortunes – or rather, discovers potential. She tells everyone what is expected of them in the future, or at least what could be expected of them in the future, if only they would realize their potential.
From here, of course, things become anything but conventional: Odwood, his family members and all the people of the town are affected by the revelations that the machine reveals to them, and are guided by the cards it emits to change their lives in one way or another. They break up relationships and start new ones, change careers, change sides, and above all begin to doubt everything that seemed to them to be self-evident until now. How far will the influence of the butterfly wings economy reach in the sleepy and conventional American town? We imagine that is quite far. Still, you said science fiction.
“The Big Door Prize”, first three episodes now on Apple TV+
5. Father is disturbed
“Father in trouble” is a series about a shy son who starts working for his father – a brilliant and eccentric high-tech millionaire, and of course, also quite a narcissist. And it’s funny, because the narcissistic and eccentric father is played by the rather narcissistic and eccentric actor Rob Lowe, and the rather shy son is played by his rather shy son, John Owen Lowe. And it’s enough to look at the short conversation they published on Netflix and realize that the dynamic between the two is crazy in real life, so even more so in the series.
In fact, on Rob Lowe, the entire series was inspired by John’s really funny habit of trolling his father in comments. So, for example, when the father posted an Instagram photo of himself reading a script and standing next to a Jeep, the son responded “So honest. I love seeing celebs being just like us.” In another case his son responded to a video of Rob Lowe playing chess with the comment “We all know you don’t know how to play chess.” Good son, all in all. He even wrote one of the episodes. Either way, even if just for the interesting dynamics, it’s worth checking out. The fact that they wrote the series with the creator of “The Santa Clarissa Diet” is also encouraging.
“Father’s Troubled”, now on Netflix