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IN ENGLISH:
- Kevin can F himself.
A put-upon housewife has had more than enough of her moronic husband and decides to off him. Intriguing fusion of braindead sitcoms and darkly comedic crime shows, which thus gleefully tear each other down. While it doesn’t go quite as far as the premise would have surely allowed for, it’s nevertheless a highly original concept that merits watching.
- Yellowjackets.
In the 90’s, a girls’ soccer team crashed in the Canadian wilderness. More than ten years later, the few survivors are determined to bury the truth about what happened during their ordeal —no one may find out the many horrible things they committed just to stay alive. Essentially a more exploitative version of “The wilds”. Far-fetched but pretty entertaining.
- Unwell.
Docu-series about assorted health fads, from essential oils to bee poison. While more ‘exploitainment’ than information, it’s nevertheless worth a look and a few follow-up discussions.
- Inventing Anna.
Dramatization of the real-life notorious con-woman who scammed many of New York’s wealthiest and naivest. Gleefully black humored, though it lasts a touch too long. At its best moments it plays almost like a Ryan Murphy show, with the mandatory camp that entails.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES:
- Magia Record (season 2).
- La divina gula.
Literally “divine gluttony”, a docu-series about some of the wildest, most elaborate concepts in Mexican street food —as liable to make you hungry as to make you sick, but more than worth a look.
MOVIES
- The Eternals.
A very rare case of a movie that is at once too ambitious and too short-sighted for what it winds up being —the lastest MCU movie entry, and by now showing exactly why mega-conglomerates like Disney + Marvel + Tons more —are not the right people for high-concept productions.
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