The return of “Tuning” is the main highlight of Netflix’s program this week, which also includes productions from the “Resident Evil” and “Kung Fu Panda” franchises.
By the way, the Panda animated series is one of the recommended attractions for children on vacation. Also new is the third season of “High School Musical: The Series: The Musical”, on Disney +, which marks Olivia Rodrigo’s exit from production.
But adults have more news, starting with a Russian production of Globoplay, forbidden to minors, on the world of camgirls. There’s also Lucy Hale chasing a serial killer on HBO Max and a selection of cartoons. Note: Three of the four animated series available are not for children.
Check out the 10 most interesting series of the week below, with trailers and more details.
| TUNA # 3 | NETFLIX
The most viewed Brazilian series on Netflix returns to follow the fate of three friends who grew up together in the same favela, influenced by the fascination of funk, drug trafficking and religious faith. Each of them has transformed their experiences into very divergent paths. In Season 3, MC Doni (Jottapê) becomes increasingly popular, Rita (Bruna Mascarenhas) engages in politics, and Nando (Christian Malheiros), a fugitive since the end of last season, sees the siege close around him.
The attraction is produced by Kondzilla, director of funk clips and owner of the most viewed YouTube channel in Brazil, and written by Guilherme Quintella (also author of “Insânia”).
| RESIDENT MALE: SERIES N.1 | NETFLIX
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The first live-action series set in Capcom’s game universe is one of the most faithful adaptations, despite featuring an unprecedented story in the franchise, centered around the daughters of villain Albert Wesker, a character from the original 1996 game, who manipulates events. behind the saga. But it is worth pointing out that the production divided opinions, missing films with Milla Jovovich.
The plot takes place in two parallel chronologies. The first part is an origin story and follows sisters Jade and Billie Wesker at the age of 14 as they move to New Raccoon City and discover that their father may be hiding dark secrets that can destroy the world. The second part takes place in London, 15 years later, when the Wesker apocalypse reduced the population of the Earth to less than 15 million inhabitants – and more than 6 billion monsters: people and animals infected with the T-virus. It is in this world that Jade, now 30, struggles to survive, despite being haunted by secrets from the past involving her sister and her father.
The highlight of the cast, Lance Reddick, who integrated the series “Lost”, “Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, is the first black actor to play Albert Wesker, while Ella Balinska (“Charlie’s Angels”) and Tamara Smart (from “Clube do Terror”) live adult and teen versions of Jade.
| RAGDOLL # 1 | HBO MAX
Lucy Hale’s new series (Aria from “Pretty Little Liars”) is a British thriller production. Too much suspense. Developed by writer-producer Freddy Syborn (“Fluentes in Amor”), the attraction revolves around the investigation into the murder of six people, who were dismembered and sewn together in the form of a grotesque body – nicknamed “Ragdoll” (patchwork doll). in Translation). To complicate matters, the killer taunts the police by sending a list of her next victims. And the name of one of the investigators on the case, Nathan Rose, is one of them.
Hale plays the police unit’s new recruit, Detective Emily Baxter, who will work on the case with Detective Nathan Rose (Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Sherlock from Netflix’s “Baker Street Irregulars.”
| HAPPY END # 1 | GLOBOPLAY
The Russian series is the best surprise of the week. It arrived quietly with very bold content and totally unsuitable for minors.
The plot follows a young woman who decides to live as a camgirl in agreement with her computer-savvy boyfriend. But their expectations soon collide as the sex trade begins to evolve and open up a whole new world for the girl. With a lot of nudity, but also humor and a compelling storyline, the series is a creation of director Evgeniy Sangadzhiev (“Leaving Afghanistan”) and features in its cast the brave Lena Tronina, already known for streaming productions of ” Mountain of Death: The Incident at Dyatlov Passage “(HBO Max).
| HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC: THE SERIES: THE MUSICAL # 3 | DISNEY +
Season 3 takes the characters to a “Camp Rock” style summer camp, where the Wildcats take on the challenge of producing a musical based on the “Frozen” animation.
The new episodes feature guest appearances of Corbin Bleu, who played Chad in the original films of the franchise, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell of “Modern Family”) as a family friend of Nini (Olivia Rodrigo). By the way, the series of chapters also marks the exit of Olivia Rodrigo from the series, in a very small participation.
| AN EXTRAORDINARY LAWYER # 1 | NETFLIX
Can you imagine what “The Good Doctor” would be like if the series were with lawyers? Because Netflix’s new South Korean production revolves around Woo Young-woo, an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) attorney just hired by a large law firm. He has an extremely high IQ of 164, exceptional memory and creative thinking, but suffers from low emotional intelligence and poor social skills. As a result, many see her as a strange person, creating some obstacles in her life.
The role of lawyer Woo is played by Park Eun-bin, a well-known dramatic actress who recently starred in the costume series “The King’s Affection”, also available on Netflix.
| SOLAR OPPOSITES # 3 | STAR +
Developed by Justin Roiland (co-creator of “Rick & Morty”), the animated attraction follows an alien family who have escaped the explosion of their world and live in a shelter in the suburbs of the United States, torn between thinking that the Earth is awful and fantastic. While two of them only see pollution, gross consumerism and human frailty, the other two love humans and all their TV, junk food and fun stuff.
The voice cast includes Roiland himself, Thomas Middleditch (“Silicon Valley”), Mary Mack (voice of “Golan the Insatiable”) and Sean Giambrone (“The Goldberg”) as the aliens, as well as several famous stars in supporting roles. , including Alan Tudyk (“Doom Patrol”), Alfred Molina (“Spider-Man 2”), Amanda Leighton (“This Is Us”), Christina Hendricks (“Good Girls”), Echo Kellum (“Arrow”) and Jason Mantzoukas (“The Good Place”).
| BIRDS GIRL # 2 | HBO MAX
The animated series Adult Swim arrives in the second season exploring increasingly surreal situations. An adult recycle of 1960s Hanna-Barbera characters, the plot follows the modern entrepreneurial adventures of Birdgirl, a character who was merely a secondary character, introduced in a 1967 episode of the cartoon “Birdman”. ). The look is the same as then, designed by master Alex Toth, who also created Space Ghost and, of course, Birdman.
Almost forgotten, the heroine was rescued in one of the first Adult Swim parodies, “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law,” released in 2000, which featured Birdman as a lawyer. “Birdgirl” is a spin-off of that series, which follows Judy Ken Sebben, aka Birdgirl, after taking control of her late father’s company.
But the CEO job becomes a fight against evil. This is because the company it detects has a wicked agenda, profiting from clearing forests, poisoning populations, and high fees for children’s hospitals. Faced with the problem, Birdgirl decides to gather a new group of superheroes to take on her most important mission: to end everything that makes her rich.
The series was developed by Erik Richer and Michael Ouweleen, creators of “Harvey the Lawyer”, and features the brilliant work of Paget Brewster (the Emily Prentiss of “Criminal Minds”) as the voice of the heroine.
| FARZAR # 1 | NETFLIX
The new animated sci-fi series for adults spares no violence, robots, bizarre aliens, jokes about sex, genitals, eschatology and a world at war where the great hero is actually a power-hungry freeloader.
In the plot, after freeing the planet Farzar from the evil alien Bazarack, the selfish warrior Renzo married the elderly queen of that world to become the new Tsar. Years later, when the planet is again under attack by man-eating aliens, his naive and less brilliant son, Prince Fichael, believes he must follow tradition and lead the resistance. But as he leads an anti-invasion team, Fichael begins to discover that not everything is as it seems and he could be living a lie.
“Farzar” was born from an idea of Roger Black and Waco O’Guin, creators of the funny and infamous “Brickleberry” and “Paradise PD” (the latter also published on Netflix).
| KUNG FU PANDA: THE DRAGON KNIGHT # 1 | NETFLIX
The first series based on the film franchise brings back comedian Jack Black (“Jumanji: The Next Level”) in the title role, after voicing the panda Po in three films and also in shorts. The actor’s last work in animation was in 2016, in the movie “Kung Fu Panda 3”.
The plot is a new adventure with new characters. To stop a mysterious pair of weasels from stealing a collection of four powerful weapons that could destroy the world, Po teams up with a British bear (voiced in English by singer Rita Ora) and embarks on a journey around the world in search of redemption. and justice.
Source: Terra
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