Escape the rigors of work or avoid certain situations of life.l that cause us pain are some of the reflections on the work world that Erickson, the creator of Separationkneaded in his head without even knowing that, later, they would end up materializing in the form of series.
And it is that work, after all, gives to Much more than signings, eternal meetings and machine coffees. Give for stories. For Tangles, betrayals, friendships or impossible lovesand also for moments of redemption. It is not uncommon for so many series to have launched it: work, in the end, is that scenario where we almost all live our best and worse versions.
That is why today, taking advantage of the International workerwe review some of the series that best capture those dynamics that orbit around work. From hyperrealist portraits to satire or chilling dystopias, each title invites to look – and question – the professional world from new perspectives. Because, despite everything, it is a place as common as inevitable.
‘The Pitt’
Los Fiction hospitals They always promise adrenaline, but The Pitt He takes it a little further. The Max series, which collects influences from Emergency y 24not only respects the rules of the subgenre and brings back some reminiscences of the past, but adds novelties in a plot that touches full topics. With his implacable rhythm and almost physical portrait of emotional wear of emergency doctorsthis fiction makes each turn a realistic battle where saving lives also means risking one’s emotions.
‘Separation’
We have ever fantasized about the possibility of live two parallel realities. One where we wake up and live the usual routine, marked by Google Calendar and a series of responsibilities that almost never correspond to us. And another, on the other hand, where to live outside all that, without being subject to the norm. What would happen, then, if we could Separate our “I” from the work of “I” personal? Separation Imagine that bureaucratic dystopia with a disturbing coldness. A nightmare where the office becomes prison, and each employee is both a victim and complicit of his own alienation.
‘The Office’
The Office It is still a television success and a mass phenomenon 20 years later. After more than two decades it has become the GENERATION SERIES OF GENERATION Zand one of the reasons may be that Billie Eilish Samplerara an episode in her debut album. Apart hypothesis, this comedy icon taught us, and teaches that none paper company It is too small to hide a universe of absurdities, impossible romances and delusional bosses. Without a doubt, the title to be taken yes or yes as an escape to everything else.
‘The Agency’
Forget about persecutions and impossible gadgets: in The agencyhe espionage It looks more like endless meetings, poorly managed procedures and the overwhelming weight of the bureaucracy. Setting the visual identity of this new version of the magnificent Infiltrated officethe brothers Jez y John Henry Butterworth They immerse us in a mirrors game – literal and metaphorical— To explore the Multiple faces of Brandon Martianan agent trapped between loyalty, distrust and weight of his own identity. A realistic, sober and addictive look at the less glamorous back in the secret world.
‘Silo’
Imagine that humanity lives locked in a underground bunker after some kind of nuclear catastrophe on the surface. 10,000 people distributed at 144 levelswith controlled birthday and without any way to communicate with the outside. A suffocating future where The place you occupy – literally – depends on your profession. Silo Take this premise to the small screen as not only dystopian fictionbut also of great reflection on how work can determine everything: Your status, your future and, perhaps, your freedom.
‘The Bold Type’
Fashion, social networks, journalism and friendship in hyperconnected times. Thus we could define in a concise manner The Bold Type. The series, which could well be a millennial fusion of Sex in New York y The devil wears Pradadevelops in the Writing of the fashion magazine Scarletwhere we follow the day to day three friends and companions – Jane, Kat and Sutton— that seek to take a place in a professional world that changes as fast as their own desires.
‘Merlin’
Merlin is not typical Philosophy professor To use: it is an earthquake that stir the minds of their students based on moral reflections, sarcasm and a few politically incorrect decisions. In Merlin We see how The “peripatetic” are taught to think about, but there is no better adventure. And among adolescent dramas, impossible loves and parents who do not understand anything, this Catalan series becomes a chute of life, rebellion and truth with which to obsess you completely.
‘The Bear’
In The Bearthe cocina It is not alone Sweat, shouts and broken plates (although too). Is Duel, family, redemption, nostalgia, pain and love For a Office that demands everything and returns little. One of the most honest and vibrant representations of chaos that implies pursuing excellence in the gastronomic field, and the sacrifices that have to be done along the way until it is achieved.
‘Hacks’
Facing the twilight of a race is not easy, and less if who “helps” is a young jelly and filter screenwriter. Hacks Explore, based on a intelligent humor, acid and breaks with everythingthe relationship between two generations linked by the need – and talent -, with a scoundrel and tenderness that few series manage to balance so well. A fiction that portrays the Hermeticism and the rawness of the passage of time and of being a woman in certain work areasas well as the difficulties of the beginnings.
‘The Newsreader’
Las Stories set in writings They never go out of style. Year after years they continue to conquer the spectators. The adrenaline of today, the competitiveness between presenters … but if we specify that it is really a presenter in a newspaper of the 80s, automatically the addiction is real. The Newsreader capture that Personal and professional fighting of television sets and nerve and unfolding writingwhile reconstructing at a frantic pace the vertigo to cover the news that marked a time.
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