The holidays are coming, prepare for the worst! 5 family reunions that turn into drama in the series

Before the holidays, Prime Video offers drama therapy!

Whether it’s awkward conversations, inappropriate logs, or family arguments, everyone has reason to worry when thinking about the end of the year holidays. Fortunately, Prime Video comes to your rescue with a method whose effectiveness no longer needs to be proven: Warner Pass and its dramatic therapy.

So, whether treated with humor or seriousness, these series are the best way to prepare for the coming crisis!

The most painful: Big Little Lies

Big Little Lies offers drama, yes. But quality drama!

Crowned with no less than 13 Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe in 2017, the mini-series, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Sharp Objects) based on Liane Moriarty’s novel, addresses without irony the small concerns of privileged couples on the California coast.

But when the mechanism of violence is set in motion and this concern takes on an unimaginable scale, the series takes on an unparalleled seriousness to reach heights of emotional and dramatic power.

A gem of a piece of writing brilliantly crafted by a great late filmmaker and featuring a prestigious cast at the top of their craft: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and even Zoe Kravitz.

Funniest: White Lotus

As funny and sexy as it is sour and irreverent, The White Lotus follows a diverse group of tourists on vacation to four corners of the world. But the heavenly environment in which these characters have a chance to evolve leads to many excesses: sex, alcohol, lies and betrayal… The series combines all the elements that contribute to the explosion of the inevitable drama.

Fortunately, White Lotus decides to laugh at the chaos that gradually arises in each of its episodes and manages to seduce with its gallery of colorful characters. At the top of this pyramid of talented actors is the fantastic Jennifer Coolidge, who won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for her role in the series.

Most Sour: Legacy

If “tension” often rhymes with “family”, adding the factor of “heritage” to the equation greatly multiplies the risk of drama. Evidence in the textbook case: inheritance.

When the patriarch of the wealthy and powerful Roy family (Brian Cox) suffers a stroke, his baby boomers (Alan Ruck, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook) must consider his legacy. But of course, each of them has their own plan to take over the family empire.

Like a game of Monopoly, cards fall on the board and players advance their pawns. Alliances, low kicks and bluffs… all means to win are good. But is it really worth playing?

Hottest: Dragon House

Rest assured that family reunions that go sour are nothing modern. To prove it, the Warner Pass invites you to travel through time and space to explore the matter in the Middle Ages in the House of the Dragon.

If it’s a matter of succession again, it’s the famous Iron Throne that hangs in the balance, and with it the fate of the entire continent. Add to that incest, illegitimate children, and some very angry dragons, and you’ve got a good shot at a grandma gift that isn’t to your taste. At least you won’t end up in a succession war…

Most historical: The Gilded Age

Let’s continue our time travel through the Gilded Age and explore the 19th century where, once again, family drama was everywhere.

When rich young Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) takes her first steps in 1880s New York, she is determined to fit in with the most privileged social circles. But very quickly, he confronts reality and realizes that money is not everything. And the rivalry her newly wealthy family has with the Rhinebrook clan won’t make her integration any easier…

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