They say that every end is a beginning and it may also be the other way around. Summer begins and with it the curtain comes down on several legendary series, such as the prequel to ‘Vikings’ (Netflix), which leaves, on the 11th and with its third season, once and for all to ‘Valhalla’. And it is not the only one. The catalog gains strength and iconic characters say goodbye for their journey, either in a parent series or in a film. The geekiest nerd from ‘The Big Band Theory’ is getting older and with his growth spurt he finishes ‘Young Sheldon’ (on Movistar Plus+) starting on the 18th, the same day that the old rivalries of ‘Cobra Kai’ (Netflix), which has more than delivered in the Valley. Master Miyagi would be proud of how his essence has been honored.
I would perhaps look with worse eyes on the not-so-innocent mischief of the students at Las Encinas High School, which is closing down –forever?– and putting an end to the wild rhythm of sex, various loves and deaths with the eighth season of ‘Élite’, with almost no one from the original cast of the series but sponsored by Maribel Verdú.
Between goodbyes and see you later, we will have to wait for the big comebacks. As ‘The Bear’ arrives in Spain late compared to its premiere on the other side of the pond, you can whet your appetite with ‘Boiling Point’ (available on Movistar+ starting July 3), a series where chef Carly, who Not Carmy, he also juggles to keep his new restaurant, Point North, going.
And speaking of returns, the return of ‘Ugly Betty, the story continues’ stands out, also with a twist, which can be seen from the 19th on Prime Video. That same day, the rascal Eliseo, the vengeful Argentine doorman from ‘The Caretaker’ (Disney+), returns to scheme his ways and Natalie Portman debuts as ‘The Lady in the Lake’, an Apple TV+ miniseries about the disappearance of a girl on Thanksgiving Day that adapts the novel of the same name by Laura Lippman.
Those who disappear in ‘Sunny’, also on Apple’s platform, are the husband and son of the character played by Rashida Jones in the fiction, which premieres on July 8, the same day that Lily Gladstone lands in another thriller but from Disney+, ‘Under the Bridge: the murder of Reena Virk’.
‘The Fever’, on Movistar Plus+ from July 8, promises to make us forget the most famous headbutt in football, given by another Frenchman who is not Zidane to his coach, whom he calls a “dirty white man.” A day later, Filmin searches through the death throes of British history to recover, in the series ‘Until they kill you’, the terrifying life of Delia Balmer, the nurse who survived a near-fatal relationship with the murderer John Sweeney.
Torture the rich
What is renewed above all in Spain at this time of year is the television schedule with summer programming, but there is still room for some premiere fiction such as ‘Ángela’, with the actress Verónica Sánchez, which will be released on the 14th of July at Atresplayer. And to put the icing on the cake of the month, Netflix trusts everything to ‘El decameron’, a reinvention of that fashionable genre of making the rich suffer, but with a period setting.
