2023-04-28 08:35:00
Bith the large number of new releases and sequels on Netflix, Amazon and Co., it is easy to lose track. What’s worth it? What can you leave behind? Here you will find our recommendations for the weekend. Along with a current classic and a confession.
You have to see
„Yellowjackets“ (Amazon/Paramount+)
A plane crashes, some occupants survive, now they have to see how long they can hold out. So far, so well known. But unlike in “Lord of the Flies”, “Lost” or “The Wilds”, the girls’ soccer team called “Yellowjackets” is not stranded on a lonely island, but in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. As a result, the group must resist the daily stimulus to leave and seek help. Who knows how close civilization is? Maybe just a day’s march? But even that could end fatally away from the safe hut that the teenagers found near the crash site. Wolves, cold and hunger bother them.
Another brilliant highlight is the two dynamically alternating time levels. We learn how the girlfriends learn to hunt, celebrate drug-intoxicated orgies around the campfire, stick together and bicker. Then a pan into the present: 25 years later, some have survived, only gradually does it become clear who exactly. The trauma has left its mark on small-town biographies. Housewife Shauna kills rabbits in the garden and serves them to her family for dinner, Senator Taissa can no longer eat meat, but instead takes sleepwalking night trips up trees.
In addition, all survivors share a secret: what exactly happened during the year and a half that they were missing? And what actions are they still capable of today to ensure that the secret does not get out? The horror series, the second season of which has just been released, follows so many exciting plot lines peppered with twists at once that the simple opening question “Who survives and how?” recedes into the background. “Yellowjackets” is one of the most touching portrayals of the trending topic of cannibalism, one of the most entertaining high school trash series and one of the most moving discussions of the animal in human beings. Marie Luise Goldman
Must see again
„Last Kingdom“ (Netflix)
Of course, if you’re currently driving through Britain, you can’t avoid the coronation. The barriers are already being set up around the corner from Buckingham Palace. The newspapers are full. Waitrose and Marks&Spencer not only stock highly polished Coronation magazines and Charles III biographies, they also stock Coronation ale, Coronation shortbread and Coronation chocolate from Cadburys. It can make you nauseous (especially Cadbury’s chocolate blend, the bitter ale isn’t bad either). But everything – including the cabal and thrashing within the House of Windsor – is harmless compared to what you see in “Last Kingdom” over five seasons and a feature film just released on Netflix (“Seven Kings must die”).
A good 1,200 years ago, the island was simply a lot busier when another great regent died. His name was Alfred. And England was not yet England, but a murderous mob of quarreling tribes, tearing each other apart when not being slaughtered by the not inconsiderable number of Danes armed to the teeth in the country. By the time Charles was old, Alfred had been dead for 25 years.
Alfred’s kingdom of Wessex is in no way inferior to Westeros. You don’t need to invent much, just put the legends and lore in a blender with plenty of fake blood and then stir it with a sword.
Of course, historically it’s about as much a lie as most glossy magazines. But quickly puts the quarrels between Harry and William where they belong – in kindergarten. Alfred would not have come up with the idea of serving quiche with lots of vegetables to top it off, as Charles, perhaps the last king, would have liked. Elmar Krekeler
scene of the week
“Alex Burstin – Corsets & Clown Costumes” (Amazon)
Ok, Hitler jokes. The question is always whether someone is firstly allowed and secondly can. Alex Borstein, daughter of Hungarian Shoah survivors, famous as the tomboyish sidekick of the impeccable Mrs. Maisel, is allowed to do that. But above all: she can do that.
In the first episode of her new, own stand-up comedy series “Alex Borstein – Corsets & Clown Costumes”, towards the end she tells the story of Hitler’s maid Liesl. She was the actual victim of the dictator’s short-term change of plan. Liesl was prepared to clean up after taking the poison, but not that her boss “brought a gun to a cyanide party”. Borstein thoughtfully walked to the edge of the stage while her two musicians began to pluck the strings with feeling.
Exactly at the moment when you think: No, please don’t make this a song about Hitler’s suicide and “poor Liesl” who has to clean up, Borstein looks into the camera and nods: “Yes, that’s exactly what’s going to happen now “. Where “Mrs. Maisel” is humorously content with being a first-class student and remains manageable in its satirical impact, “Alex Borstein” knocks the whole program over our ears: perfect timing, wise tastelessness right on the edge of the abyss and the whole range of female comedy from the beer driver to the somewhat clumsy fairy. Cosima Lutz
You can leave it
„Too Hot to Handle“ (Netflix)
Looking for something to wind down, landed on Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle. Twelve young people are flown to an island, where they are told that if they want to win €200,000 they must abstain for a week. No smooching, no fondling, no shagging, not even masturbating.
Should work: You say all the sentences that nip any desire in the bud. “Fuck you, you look good,” says Dennis. “I definitely like more buttocks in men,” says Anna from Innsbruck. Of course they can’t. At night in the luxury villa, they all have to spend the night together in a large dormitory, their bodies rub against each other, the night vision camera registers everything.
The next day the violations of the sex ban are read out. “Furthermore, Kevin’s lips were close to Emely’s lips,” it says, “not the lips on the face are meant.” Each sin costs a few thousand, which are deducted from the prize money. In between, the men have to give masculinity trainers information about their masculinity images (“my masculinity is my Eiffel Tower”) and the women have to talk to their yoni.
In the end, someone wins. One can only hope that artificial intelligence never sees anything like this. She would decide on the spot to destroy humanity. Rightly so. Peter Praschl
secret passion
“brown” (Netflix)
The best of Baustria – or even worse: Lower Austria – that’s “Braunschlag”, eight red-white-red series classic episodes, the most cunningly provincial thing that cult author David Schalko has ever dreamed up. These ORF treasures from 2011 have been in the deepest Netflix archive cellar for some time.
“Braunschlag” is a ghost village in the Waldviertel, where nothing works anymore, but in which ingenious ramp sow zombies like Robert Palfrader and Nicholas Ofczarek are up to their borderline acting mischief. One is the mayor, the other runs the empty village disco. And together they want to turn their long-lost homeland into a hotspot by means of a fictitious apparition of the Virgin Mary as a place of pilgrimage. But that only attracts the Czech mafia and a Vatican visitor carrying Prada briefcases.
Maria Hofstätter and Nina Proll as wives Herta and Elfi (“probably former Miss Niederösterreich”) who are left alone and comfort themselves with men in petting rabbit costumes have never been more grotesque and better. Elif’s stupid brother runs a UFO landing pad, the grandiose Ligart Schwarz, who isn’t so harmless as a pensioner, has something corpse-like in the deepest basement. There is also a tantra therapist and with Simon Schwarz as St. Pölten state politician, the name Rainer Katzlbrunner says it all.
A peppery mixture of punch lines from Helmut Dietl and Josef Hader is touched there, ugly and loving, rough and tender, with first-class actors. Schalkow, who once lived there, knows his “Waldtler specialties”, including angels, devils and a lot of hypocrites. Manual Use
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