May arrives with new seasons of series that have managed to interest the audience. They are the cases of blue lights (Movistar Plus+), Hacks (HBOMax), Interview with the vampire (AMC+), Outer range (Prime Video) and The Bridgertons (Netflix). Also notable is the return to Disney+ of an old acquaintance, Doctor Who, which more than six decades after its premiere will see Ncuti Gatwa become the fifteenth doctor. And of the new fictions that will be released, we highlight the following.
Marbella Movistar Plus+ (Thursday 2)
Dani de la Torre and Alberto Marini (The unit, the Kabul unit) repeat as creative directors of this new series that approaches an intricate network of criminal gangs that operate on the Costa del Sol. Hugo Silva plays César, an ambitious and seductive lawyer who is willing to bend the law and break any ethical code or moral to achieve your objectives and become the most sought-after lawyer in Marbella. But an unexpected event puts him in the eye of the storm and who needs a lawyer to save him is precisely him.
Ramy Filmin (Tuesday 7)
The platform recovers this dramatic comedy released in 2019 whose creator and protagonist is Ramy Youssef ( poor creatures ). The series portrays the Muslim community in the United States with a sense of humor. Its protagonist is a first-generation Muslim American who embarks on a spiritual journey from his native New Jersey to explore the challenges of being halfway between the Egyptian community who think that life is a moral test and the millennial generation who think that life is a moral test. life has no consequences.
Dark matter Apple TV+ (Wednesday 8)
Adaptation of the work of Blake Crouchy, acclaimed as one of the best science fiction novels of the decade. Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) is a physicist, professor and family man who, one night while walking home through the streets of Chicago, is transported to an alternate version of his life. The amazement turns into a nightmare when he tries to return to his reality, amidst the hallucinatory landscape of the lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a journey to return to his family and save them from the most terrifying enemy he can imagine: himself.
The long shadows Disney+ (Friday the 10th)
Clara Roquet’s first series after her debut film Freedom , winner of two Goya. Elena Anaya, Belén Cuesta, Irene Escolar, Marta Etura, Itziar Atienza and Ana Rayo star in this female thriller that reflects on the weight of guilt and how the friendship of a group of friends evolves over the years. The plot follows a group of women whose lives are suddenly shaken by the appearance of the mortal remains of one of their high school classmates, who disappeared during the end-of-year trip to Mallorca 25 years earlier.
Without Sin: Guilt-free AXN Now (Saturday 11)
Miniseries starring Vicky Vicky McClure ( line of duty , Trigger Point ), who was nominated for a Bafta award for this role. The actress plays a mother who is contacted by the Restorative Justice program to meet with the man imprisoned for the murder of her daughter. But as the connection between them progresses, she begins to suspect that someone else may have committed the crime and that they have again attacked a vulnerable young woman.
Mr Bates v Post Office Movistar Plus+ (Tuesday 21)
Fiction based on real events about the British Post Office scandal, which unjustly convicted hundreds of honest citizens and marked their personal lives irreversibly. Starring Toby Jones, who plays Alan Bates, an English citizen who runs a local Post Office with his wife, Suzanne, but whose life changes drastically when he is forced by law to close his post, accusing him of fraud, theft and accounting falsehood. The real reason: a technical glitch in the accounting software.
Eric Netflix (Thursday 30)
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in this thriller set in New York during the eighties that follows Vincent, a father desperate to find his nine-year-old son, who disappeared on his way to school. Vincent is the creator of a popular children’s television show, but the disappearance of his son Edgar causes him to lose control. Consumed by self-loathing and guilt, he clings to Edgar’s drawings of Eric, a blue monster puppet, convinced that if he can bring the character to television, his little girl will come home.
