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If the reader wants to expand their audiovisual horizons beyond the frenetic coverage of Portuguese generalist and news channels about World Youth Day and the Pope’s presence in Portugal, there are two ways.
One of them is to delve even deeper into the topic, and for that there are Amen, Francis Responds (2023), on Disney+, with ten young people from all over the world gathered in Rome with the Pope to talk to him about their concerns, or on the same platform, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (a National Geographic production as early as 2019).
Na HBO Max, A Portuguese Religious is a 2009 film about a young French actress with a Portuguese mother who comes to Lisbon to make a film and confronts her destiny (sacred, as expected). Going forward a little in time, there is always the series The Young Popefrom HBO, by Paolo Sorrentino, with Jude Law and, in its second season entitled The New Pope, com Law e John Malkovich.
Then there is the package that Opto/SIC has prepared for these days, which includes the film Fatimaby João Canijo and accompanying a group of pilgrim women, or the recent series Lucia, the Keeper of the Secret, about precisely one of the so-called seers of Fatima. SIC also suggests On the Route of Sanctuaries or Deliver us from war, in the field of documentaries, in addition to the live broadcast of WYD.
RTP, which is “host broadcaster” and for that reason it transmits to the whole world the images of what happens in the Journeys, it has in its platform of streaming free RTP Play a section just dedicated to the event and there are already several “episodes” of coverage.
And there is the other way: that of holy ignorance. In recent days, in addition to what you will read below about the premieres of the day, the second season of The Bear (Disney+), or end of The Witcher (on Netflix), both asking for an oblivion marathon in completely different worlds.
Bonus: if you want to have a foot on either side of the topic, on Netflix you can click on Warrior Nun and see the Portuguese Alba Baptista distribute blows in the name of God, see the six seasons of Lucifer or poke the entertainment series How to Be a Cult Leader and ponder what this is about organized religion. On Amazon, the second season of Good Omens and Michael Sheen and David Tennant as Angel and Devil.
However, these are the premieres of the week.
HBO Max
Monday, August 7th
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty – Season two of the controversial and addictive series about the rise of the 1980s generation of the NBA team Los Angeles Lakers, exploring (and this word was used many times by targets unhappy with the first “season“) the professional but also personal lives of names like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird (Boston Celtics, never a Laker) or Kareem Abdul Jabbar, as well as their coaches and team owners – Jerry Buss, Pat Riley or Jeanie Buss. Served by a top cast and a production team topped by Adam McKay, is one of the week’s premieres.
Wednesday, August 9th
Fantastic Friends — One more return for the second round, this time also featuring the main characters: this is the series of journeys and friendships led by the twins James and Oliver Phelps, better known as the Weasley brothers in the movies Harry Potter. They invite famous friends to chat and travel and face some challenges. This time Matt Lewis and Alfie Enoch, also from Harry Potter or Alfie Allen from To War two Thrones.
Thursday, August 10th
Rap Sh!t — Two old school friends from Miami, Shawna and Mia, get together to form a rap group. The series follows their rise and the usual dilemmas: not selling out or giving in to industry pressures.
Disney+
Tuesday, August 8th
Homicides at Home — In season three, Charles, Oliver and Mabel (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) investigate yet another murder that took place under their noses — this time, as seen at the end of the most recent episode, backstage at a play . This time Paul Rudd and… Meryl Streep get on board this runaway but strangely calm train. Meryl. Streep.
SkyShowtime
Friday, August 4th
Bupkis — Pete Davidson’s new series premiere (The King of Staten Island, Saturday Night Live), which is semi-autobiographical and also features Edie Falco and Joe Pesci in addition to a secondary cast and special guests that include Bobby Cannavale, Jon Stewart, Al Gore, JJ Abrams, Steve Buscemi, Method Man or Chris O’Donnell. The first two episodes premiere this Friday, with new episodes dropping weekly. In total there are eight, and the series has already started and ended in the USA and a second season was guaranteed.
Amazon Prime Video
Friday, August 4th
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart — Alice is nine years old when she loses her parents in a fire and goes to live with her grandmother on a farm. The background is the flowers created on this Australian farm, but also the secrets of the family and the death of the parents. Seven episodes. Detail: the grandmother is (played by) Sigourney Weaver.
Sunset — Two first seasons of the series that satirizes the universe of the national soap opera, one broken glass of whiskey at a time. The horse is called Testicle, the twins appear in droves, the caretaker’s son is always very hot and this is one of the great successes of national fiction in recent years. The film, not even on purpose, opened Thursday in theaters. Good marathon, working class!
divine sign — Film about Checo and Chuma, who survive an explosion that killed their boss, who turns out to be a dangerous criminal. The money that survives it will be used to help those who need it most.
Apple TV+
Wednesday, August 9th
Strange Planet — This series comes from social media — well, and from a graphic novel that was a bestseller. This world is ours, but not quite, because everything is pink and its inhabitants are blue. Deep down, this bubblegum and fun fair universe is the format through which the most everyday habits of human life are analysed. by Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community) and Nathan W. Pyle, the author of the work, is composed of ten episodes of about 20 minutes. Oh, and it’s animation.
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Tuesday, August 8th
Liv Ullmann: A road less traveled — The life of Liv Ullmann, actress, filmmaker and star in her own name of some of Ingmar’s most emblematic films, told by her own voice but also by Jessica Chastain, Cate Blanchett, John Lithgow, Pernilla August or Sam Waterson.
Thursday, August 10th
Burning Days — It was Emin Alper’s first film to be premiered in a theater in Portugal and it was soon a thriller that questions the interior of Turkey through a prosecutor who has to deal with the heads of the village where he has just arrived and with whom he had dinner and drank a lot — and that’s why he doesn’t remember anything. That night, a girl was raped and brutally beaten.
Netflix
Friday, August 4th
Perfect!: Confectioners to All Proof — Culinary competition show whose title pretty much says it all.
Tuesday, August 8th
Sports Stories: Johnny Football “This week’s episode of this docuseries, the third, is about a quarterback and American football’s biggest star, who, although he was too small for his position, was a phenomenon back in 2012. They called him “Johnny Football” and then he was swallowed by the machine of fame and temptations. Now, it comes to Netflix to tell everything.
Zombieverse — Oh, zombies. How long. This time, Seoul has turned into a city of zombies. However, after all this is a contest and competitors have missions to fulfill and reach the end of the tests.
Wednesday, August 9th
Ladies first: Women in Hip Hop — Netflix describes this docuseries as “timely”. Perhaps. The 50th anniversary of hip hop is celebrated around this time and it is never too late to remember that equality does not exist (yet) and that it is a right. In this case, the light focuses on the women who made hip-hop and underlines their central role and not just peripheral or decorative in the movement and musical genre. There are four episodes
Thursday, August 10th
Painkiller: End Vez Coma Dor — Fiction miniseries with the adorable Matthew Broderick that is about a far from cute subject: the opioid crisis in the US, or how a country became addicted to drugs like oxycotin. With executive production by Eric Newman, Pete Berg and Alex Gibney, it also has Uzo Aduba and Taylor Kitsch in the main roles. Six episodes. Directed by Peter Berg.
Home With My Corpse — The answer is immediately “no”, but Netflix tries to convince us: a policeman finds a red envelope with a marriage proposal and discovers that it comes from a ghost who asks the policeman’s hand before reincarnating. OK…
TVCine+
Monday, August 7th
The House of Darkness — Film by Neil LaBute that never premiered in Portuguese cinemas and lands on Sunday at TVCine Top to be available a day later, as usual on demand on TVCine+. Gothic tale that brings together Justin Long and Kate Bosworth in a gruesome encounter.
Globoplay
Friday, August 4th
Family Seasoning — Rodrigo Hilbert teaches his cooking secrets, captured by helping his mother and grandmother.
Saturday, August 5th
long live the fat man — Tribute to the Brazilian comedian and television host, making the program available to Globoplay subscribers.
lost not streaming
It’s not lost, but it never hurts. For reasons Sunset, this has been a week to remember The Such Channel, the genius of Herman José and the jumps of Cilinha and Marilú. Not on RTP Play, but on RTP files there are a few episodes to celebrate like it’s 1983.
What are you seeing?
Diogo Amaral, actor of Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó
“Normally I’m watching two or three series at the same time, but since I finished Succession, that I was watching when the episodes came out, I stopped watching series. Meanwhile I started a new project for a soap opera that is absorbing me a little. But I saw a documentary about breath-hold diving on Netflix, The Deepest Breath (2023), very funny.”
read to see
AUDIENCE: From Marilu’s Diary a Sunset, it’s all one”private joke” national
PUBLIC: The Beardrama and comedy in the kitchen in Chicago
Vulture: There’s Still Life in What We Do in the Shadows’s Energy-Vampire Gag
Wired: The Future of Children’s Television Isn’t Television
PÚBLICO: Netflix and Academia Portuguesa open competition for emerging screenwriters
Observer: Hijack It’s over: Is the kidnapping of Idris Elba the best thriller of 2023?
Until the next episode.
2023-08-04 11:18:27
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