With the arrival on Netflix of the long-awaited biopic strip on the history and career of Fito Páez, “Love after love”, as the strongest title for the Argentine public, April brings new proposals and seasons in the series universe.
The following is a list of the most prominent:
April 6 – Bronca (Premiere) – Netflix
Starring comedian Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, remembered for “The Walking Dead” and Oscar nominated for “Minari,” the dramatic comedy “Bronca” follows the story of a failed contractor and a disgruntled businesswoman who have a rage incident at the steering wheel that instead of ending around the corner spins out of control and assumes insane proportions.
As if it were one of the segments of “Wild Tales” carried to the last consequences, the series of 10 half-hour episodes is a proposal that reflects on modern urban life and frustration. Created by Lee Sung Jin, the series is from the A24 studio, which has just triumphed at the Oscars with films like “Everything everywhere at the same time” and “The Whale.”
April 7 – Little Beautiful Things (Premiere) – Star+
Based on the best-selling collection of essays by Cheryl Strayed, “Little Beautiful Things” centers on Clare (Kathryn Hahn), who finds herself at a difficult time as her relationship with her husband Danny (Quentin Plair) falters, her teenage daughter Rae (Tanzyn Crawford) ignores her, and her once-promising writing career ceases to exist.
As if there was a dialogue or a kind of continuity with her series “Mrs. Fletcher”, from 2019, Hahn once again unfolds as a mature woman in a stage of self-discovery and reflection. On this occasion, Cate’s character begins to mobilize after taking charge of an advice column at the request of a writer friend, where she becomes a kind of balm for her readers but also for herself.
April 7 – Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (Premiere) – Paramount+
Set four years before the 1978 classic “Grease: El Compadrito,” this musical-romantic comedy created by Annabel Oakes follows the story of four somewhat misfit young women tired of traditional high school life who come together to have fun on their own terms. , awakening a moral uproar among his peers and teachers.
Tricia Fukuhara, Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Wells and Ari Notartomaso embody the protagonists who became founders of the “Ladies in Pink”, the first gang at their school and the same one that years later, in that universe, would adopt the remembered and innocent Sandy by Olivia Newton-John in the original film. Shanel Bailey, Madison Thompson, Jonathan Nieves and Jason Schmidt, among others, complete the cast of the strip.
April 14 – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 5 – Finale) – Prime Video
One of the most praised -and award-winning- comedies of recent years reaches its conclusion. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” once again takes up the New York housewife looking to “hit it” as a stand-up comedian in the very macho environment of the 1960s. For its fifth and final season, Midge Maisel finds herself increasingly close to the success he always dreamed of, although he will still have to face several difficulties. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, it stars Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein and Tony Shalhoub, among others.
April 16 – Barry (Season 4 – Finale) – HBO and HBO Max
The multi-award winning dark comedy series starring Bill Hader as a deadly assassin who wants to abandon his dark side and always ends up killing again, brings its final season with the main character imprisoned and beyond redemption.
With two episodes opening in the first week, the plot finds the anti-hero of the story on the verge of losing his mind, while Cousineau (Henry Winkler), his former acting teacher and one of his victims, is hailed for the arrest of his former student. .
April 21 – Dead Ringers (Premiere) – Prime Video
A modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1998 thriller starring Jeremy Irons, this series has Rachel Weisz in the dual lead role of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and a remorseless desire to do what they want. necessary – including pushing the boundaries of medical ethics – in an effort to challenge outdated practices and bring women’s health to the forefront.
Created by Alice Birch, the proposal has Weisz (who also serves as an executive producer) in the challenge of playing two identical sisters. In this way, he follows in the footsteps of other remembered “twins” on the small screen such as Ewan McGregor in “Fargo”, James Franco in “The Deuce” or Mark Ruffalo in “I Know This Much Is True”.
April 26 – Love After Love (Premiere) – Netflix
The long-awaited biographical series arrives that will cover 30 years of the personal history and professional career of Fito Páez, embodied in his childhood and adulthood by Gaspar Offenhenden and Iván Hochman, to review both his beginnings in music and the intimate experiences that led to the singer-songwriter from Rosario to establish himself as one of the most important national and Latin American rock figures of his generation.
Andy Chango as Charly García, Julián Kartun in the skin of Luis Alberto Spinetta and Joaquín Baglietto fictionalizing his own father, Juan Carlos Baglietto; are some of the performers who will also participate in the production of eight episodes, along with actresses Micaela Riera and Daryna Butryk in the roles of Fabiana Cantilo and Cecilia Roth, among others.
April 27 – Love and Death (Premiere) – HBO Max
The popular actress Elizabeth Olsen stars in this “true crime” about the real case of Candace “Candy” Montgomery, a woman accused of the bloody murder of her friend and wife of her lover, Betty Gore, which occurred in June 1980 in the suburban town of Wylie, Texas.
Created by renowned screenwriter David E. Kelley -also responsible for strips such as “Chicago Hope”, “Ally McBeal” and “Big Little Lies”-, the production that also features Jesse Plemons, Patrick Fugit, Lily Rabe and Krysten Ritter in the cast is the second recent adaptation of this powerful plot, which had already been brought to the small screen last year by Jessica Biel in “Candy”.
April 27 – Sweet Tooth (Season 2) – Netflix
After being captured by a group of hunters in this post-apocalyptic world that threatens the survival of adults and causes the birth of half-human-half-animal hybrid girls and boys, little Gus must find a way to save his friends while discovering the truth behind the start of the pandemic that brought down civilization.
Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar, Stefania LaVie Owen, Dania Ramirez, Aliza Vellani, Neil Sandilands and James Brolin -as the voice-over narrator of the plot- return in this new installment of the series adapted from the homonymous comic published between 2009 and 2013 by Jeff Lemire, and which features Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan Downey, as executive producers.
April 28 – The Afterparty (Season 2) – Apple TV+
After the success of its first season, “The Afterparty” returns with its particular “whodunnit”-style mystery comedy proposal created by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, in which there is a crime in a closed place and in each episode they are told the facts from the perspective (with their respective cinematographic aesthetics) of each of those involved.
In the second installment, a wedding is ruined when the groom is murdered and all the guests are suspects. Detective Danner (with the return of Tiffany Haddish), Aniq (Sam Richardson) and Zoë (Zoë Chao) return, and they are joined by new characters played by Elizabeth Perkins, Zach Woods, Paul Walter Hauser, Poppy Liu, Anna Konkle, Jack Whitehall, Vivian Wu, John Cho, and Ken Jeong.
April 28 – Citadel (Premiere) – Prime Video
Action and drama come together in this series produced by filmmaking brothers Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as two elite agents whose identities were wiped off the map while trying to escape with their lives eight years before the fall of the independent espionage organization of the title.
Now, the duo must return to the ring when a powerful and dark syndicate seeks to establish a new world order. The renowned Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville -along with Osy Ikhile, Ashleigh Cummings and Roland Moller- also make up the cast of the strip, which tells with the American David Weil, writer and director of the series “Hunters” and “Solos”, in the role of showrunner.
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