A 2020 dedicated to TV series: here are 5 not to be missed!
2020: New year, new life, old habits. For example, watching TV series episodes compulsively, because, you know, they are a bit like potato chips: one leads to another. However, if you don't want to spend more time deciding what to watch than actually looking at it, Alfemminile is there to help you once again. We have reviewed all the titles, news and confirmations, and we took the liberty of selecting the 5 most attractive of this year that has just begun, but which, as a show, is already very tempting.
The brilliant friend - "History of the new surname"
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In the United States there is talk of "Ferrante Fever": this is a real mania for Elena Ferrante, author of the tetralogy from which the show that has bewitched Italy and the whole world was taken. After the success, beyond all expectations, of the first series, the "Brilliant Friend" is back on TV with the second chapter. From 10 February, in fact, we will be able to follow again the events of Elena (Lenù) and Lila, two friends at the antipodes, two opposites that complement each other. In the second season we witness the evolution of the two characters, one struggling with university life in Pisa and the other with an unhappy marriage and dreams left to rot at the bottom of a drawer. All inserted in the frame of an Italy that is changing, just like the two girls, rising from the rubble of a war that has not passed too long in an impetus towards the economic boom. It is in this context that Lenù and Lila perceive an increasingly intrusive thirst for emancipation and revenge which, albeit from different perspectives, unites them even at a distance of kilometers.
Sex Education - Second Season
If you have not yet seen the first series (shame!), We help you to take stock of the situation. At the center of this teen-drama is Otis, a boy like many others, whose mother, however, is a luminary in a rather particular field: sexology. Although the adolescent often feels embarrassed by the maternal profession, he is unconsciously influenced by it so much that he in turn becomes a consultant at the Moordale high school, which he attended. It is thanks to Otis that his companions, struggling with a changing body, find the courage to put aside their modesty and express without hesitation the doubts that hover around sexuality. We particularly like this show because it faces and defeats the taboos that oppress the sexual sphere, unfortunately often leading to ignorance and it does so with irony, which is not synonymous with superficiality. During the second season, moreover, there is an opening to the world of adults, which is also subject to perplexity and bewilderment on the subject. It should be noted a small (unaware) cameo of a made in Italy beauty: at the beginning of the first episode we discover, in fact, that, among the erotic dreams of the protagonist, there is an Ornella Muti in the role of Princess Aura in the movie Flash Gordon.
Grace & Frankie - Sixth Season
Yes, we have now reached the sixth season, available on Netflix from January 15, but don't panic, if you missed the previous episodes, this is a good opportunity to catch up and catch up. Here too, we find again an indissoluble pair of friends, played by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Despite the initial disagreements due to their substantial differences, one refined and snobbish, the other naive and bizarre, the two women are forced to question themselves at a mature age, when everything is taken for granted and, instead, unexpectedly happens there. 'unthinkable: the husbands of the two, after working side by side for years, find the courage to come out, openly declaring that they are lovers and even want to get married. From the initial shock, the daring adventures of these crazy women over 70 start. A story of friendship, but, above all, a story of two women for whom age is only a given. To the series the merit of having conquered all generations in a transversal way.
Made in Italy
A product entirely Made in Italy, in fact, which, after having debuted in September 2019 on Amazon Prime Video, will land on Canale 5 starting next spring. With a stellar cast, from Margherita Buy to Stefania Rocca, passing through Raoul Bova And Marco Bocci, the TV series follows the history of Italian fashion in parallel, through the names of Krizia, Missoni and Fiorucci, from Parisian haute couture to tricolor pret-à-porter, and the events of Irene who, vaguely reminding us of an Anne Hathaway “The Devil wears Prada” finds herself catapulted into the hectic world of publishing. The girl, in fact, gets a job as an apprentice at Appeal, a glossy magazine that assists and witnesses the evolution in the Italian fashion system. In the background, the Italy of the 70s which makes us active spectators of the transformation of a country, of which the leaders of its people are also manifested.
Offline
Although it is a film, although still branded Netflix, we still want to point it out to you for the message it carries. A comedy with a clear pedagogical intent, which, through laughter, invites us to reflect on one of the most serious and widespread plagues of the contemporary era: tech addiction. Ana, the protagonist, is an influencer and has the most intimate relationship with her cell phone. Between one selfie and the next, her life is turned upside down by a dramatic event: the girl, who has the bad habit of talking on the phone while driving, causes a car accident, seriously endangering her own life and that of her parents. others. The only solution is to send it to the grandfather in the countryside, where it will be easier to detoxify from the digital world. A bucolic rehab during which Ana will discover the existence of a whole world beyond the screen of her smartphone.
