Previews: “Cobra Kai”, “Evil” and “Rick & Morty” in the new seasons

This week’s marathons feature superheroes, martial arts, demons, gangsters, animated aliens and talking cars. Some highly anticipated sequels, such as “Cobra Kai”, “Evil”, “Stargirl” and “Rick & Morty” join new titles in a lineup that ranges from horror to animation for children.

Check out 10 previews of the top series in the streaming schedule below.

| COBRA KAI 5 | NETFLIX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPqNBE2xTUI

Season 5 sees Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) expand the Cobra Kai empire and revive the evil Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan), seen in “Karate Kid III”, to make his ruthless martial arts style dominant. Meanwhile, former rivals Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) have lost their best student (Xolo Maridueña) and cannot make themselves understood by others.

Fueled by 80s nostalgia, “Cobra Kai” was created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (the latter two from “American Pie”) and follows the classic characters of “Karate Kid” for over 30 years after the events from the original franchise. In addition to the aforementioned, the list of classic characters also includes Lucille (Randee Heller) and Chozen (Yuji Okumoto), from the first and second films.

| EVIL 3 | GLOBOPLAY

The horror comes in the third season, showing that the protagonists are far from getting rid of the threats that haunt them. Produced by Robert and Michelle King (creators of “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight”), “Evil” follows a Catholic Church employee charged with investigating possessions, who works with a forensic psychologist to distinguish real cases from outbreaks. . psychotic. At each episode, they are confronted with supernatural cases, demons and temptations.

Mike Colter (the “Luke Cage”) lives the churchman, Dutch actress Katja Herbers (Emily from “Westworld”) plays the psychologist, and the cast also highlights Aasif Mandvi (“The Brink”) as technical investigator of the phenomena, as well as Michael Emerson (“Person of Interest”) as an agent of evil. The series has already been renewed for a fourth season.

| STAR GIRL 3 | HBO MAX

Season 3 tests the idealism of Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger), aka Stargirl. After heroes and villains team up to defeat the Eclipso threat, everyone tries to live together in peace, but those who are supposed to be heroes are not very convinced of the good behavior of said villains. To complicate matters further, the two most evil teenagers from the Injustice Society families now want to join the Justice Society team. And Starman (Joel McHale), who was allegedly dead, not only survived the onslaught of villains, but moved into Stargirl’s family home, questioning Courteney’s future as a hero, as she inherited her powers from the “death” of him.

The creator of the series is Geoff Johns, who conceived “Stargirl” in DC Comics.

| AMONG WEDDINGS | STAR +

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InH5XGodX5o

The British series starring Rosa Salazar (“Alita: Battle Angel”) and Gavin Drea (“Vikings: Valhalla”) combines a romantic comedy with a mystery thriller. The two play Katie and Stefan, who fall in love at a wedding and start a relationship, despite Katie already having a boyfriend. So when it comes time for Katie’s wedding, instead of the party ending with a happy ending, she ends up with eight poisoned people at the dinner table, including the groom. But she escapes unscathed.

For the police, Stefan, the lover, was responsible. Stefan, on the other hand, believes that Katie is to blame. As they try to prove their innocence and uncover the identity of the real culprit, the lovers discover that they are still the killer’s targets and decide to put their suspicions aside to join forces.

Created by Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”), the production has eight episodes.

| ECHOES | NETFLIX

Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible franchise) stars in the double-role thriller as identical twins who have secretly switched places for years. But their secrets start to crumble when one of them disappears. The storyline was developed by Vanessa Gazy, creator of the Australian teen mystery “Eden”, which also predicts a mysterious disappearance and is available on Globoplay.

| NARCO-SANTOS | NETFLIX

This Korean variation of “Narcos” follows a businessman forced to take part in a secret government mission to arrest a Korean drug lord, posing as a pastor and operating in South America. Like the Latin plots of “Narcos”, the story is based on true crimes.

The series was developed by director Yoon Jong-bin (“Nameless Gangster”) and stars Ha Jung-woo (“The Handmaid”), Hwang Jung-min (“Deliver Us From Evil”), Park Hae-soo (” The House”). de Papel: Korea “), Jo Woo-jin (” The Fortress “) and Yoo Yeon-seok (” Oldboy “).

| AMERICAN GIGOLO | PARAMETER +

The series is based on the 1980 film of the same name about a prostitute who becomes a murder suspect. It features Jon Bernthal (Marvel’s “Punisher”) as Julian Kaye, a character played by then heartthrob Richard Gere 40 years ago, and begins by recreating scenes from the film written and directed by Paul Schrader, before jumping 15 years to tell the continuation of the story, after the protagonist is released from prison for the crime in which he was falsely implicated.

As he tries to unravel the conspiracy that led to him in prison, Julian tries to reclaim his place in the sex industry, which has changed a lot in recent years, by getting involved with ravenous new women, as he tries to reconnect with his old flame. , his former client girlfriend Michelle – in the series, played by Gretchen Mol (“Boardwalk Empire”).

The film adaptation was developed by writer-producer David Hollander, one of the lead writers of “Ray Donovan”, who previously tackled the sex industry in “Maximum Censorship” (2000). But he was fired during filming, after a complaint and investigation of misconduct on the set, leaving the showrunner job in the hands of Nikki Toscano – who worked on “Revenge”, “Bates Motel” and the recent “The Offer”. “. This confusion may have hurt the production, because American critics found it very, very bad: only 14% approval on Rotten Tomatoes.

| CAR ON THE ROAD | DISNEY +

Pixar’s “Cars” spin-off series follows Lightning McQueen and her best friend Mater on a journey through the countryside to meet Mater’s sister. But along the way, they experience many unexpected adventures, with new characters and references to “Mad Max: Fury Road”.

Actors Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy, who voiced the two central characters in the three films in the franchise, return to reprise their roles in the animated series, in English version. The direction is shared by Steve Purcell (writer-director of “Brave”), Bobby Podesta (animator of “Cars”) and Brian Fee (writer-director of “Cars 3”).

| CENTRAL PARK 3 | APPLE TV +

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2q9CXijqdo

The animation follows a family of janitors who live and work in Central Park, New York. In the storyline, the Tillermans fight to save New York’s park – and the world – from sinister real estate plans. And, what’s more, they still sing several musical numbers.

The production was developed by Loren Bouchard (creator of “Bob’s Burgers”), Nora Smith (writer of “Bob’s Burgers”) and actor Josh Gad (LeFou of “Beauty and the Beast”). And Gad is also one of the lead voices, along with Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger Games”), Daveed Diggs (“Express of Tomorrow”), Leslie Odom Jr. (“A Night in Miami “), Kathryn Hahn (” WandaVision “), Emmy Raver-Lampman (” The Umbrella Academy “) and Kristen Bell (” The Good Place “) – who changed characters after the first season, asking to be replaced by a ‘ black actress in the role of the teenage daughter of the middle family.

| RICK & MORTY 6 | HBO MAX

Emmy winner for Outstanding US Animated Series, the series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (also creator of “Community”) follows mad scientist Rick and his nephew Morty on adventures through time, space and other dimensions that end up in have a big impact on reality – otherwise known as pop culture.

Following the explosive events of last season, the new episodes will follow Dr. Rick into the Multiverse of Madness, as the scientist tries to stop an evil version of himself from creating more chaos in reality. All this while his family deals with invasions from space, attacks from other dimensions and the occasional end of the world.

Source: Terra

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