Roaming Netflix over and over again? Can’t find what to see? Are you waiting for the next series that will catch you? Great, that’s exactly why we’re here. Here are three great series that have recently hit the small screen, and are totally worth watching
The first series is called “Night Sky”, This is an eight-episode science fiction series from Amazon Prime Video. The plot deals with aging and extraterrestrial life, and at its center is an elderly couple, Irene and Franklin York, a retired Wenger teacher who lives in a small town and leads a calm, gray life. The two were childhood lovers, shared a life, and now they are aging in front of each other. Franklin’s memory deteriorates, and Irene falls and is forced to sit in a wheelchair. Contrary to all expectations, they are there for each other, full of love and compassion.
But beneath the surface, the two hide a big secret, one that haunts them again and again, even many years later. “Night Sky” contains in a sense an ideological load but in the same breath it is also smart, suspenseful, sweeping, and enjoyable to watch, much thanks to the successful casting of Spacek and Simmons, the Oscar winner, who is the strength of the entire series.
The second series is called ״הנחש מאסקס״ And it comes to us from Apple TV Plus. It is a supernatural drama, which follows Cora, living in Victorian London, who decides to open a new page, and embark on an independent life, after her husband dies. She does this alongside her assistant, Martha.
In the same breath, all over London there are rumors of snake-like monsters, and Kora, who is a historian, shows great interest in the story. She decides to travel to the same remote village, in order to understand more about it all. The series is based on Sarah Perry’s book, and is in fact a serial novel that has undergone a particularly successful television adaptation. “The Snake from Essex” deals quite a bit with class gaps, especially between women and men, the existing conflict between science and religion, and most of all, distills the uniqueness of that period. The scenery and costumes are admirable, making the viewing experience especially rare, along with fine photography, and great actors.
The last and third series is actually Doku, called “The Gate to Heaven: The Mother of All Cults”Which tells an incredible story about 39 people who committed suicide together in San Diego in order to reach a spaceship that awaits them, they believed, behind a comet.
The same group believed that humans belong to aliens, and that we must die in order to move on to the next stage. The series consists of four episodes, and consists of interviews, archive footage, and other recorded footage. The relatives of the suicide bombers also talked about coping, and living alongside their family members, who were sucked deep into the cult.
The story of “Gate of Heaven” is inconceivable, and it leaves the viewer with a gap. But most of all, the series manages to prove how powerful the power of persuasion is, and that it can lead to extremism among those believers, no matter what that belief may be.
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