Pensioners and cephalopods: what TV series await us in December
The serial program of December is very rich, but everything pales before the premiere, which is waiting, without exaggeration, the whole world: December 26 starts the second season of "The Squid Game". However, domestic filmmakers will also please viewers. So, in "First Number" we are waiting for the memories of Sergei Minaev about working in a glossy magazine, and in "Mammoths" prolific Yuri Stoyanov will play a pensioner who stood up to fight cybercrime. About the most interesting December novelties in the world of serials tell "Izvestia".
"The first number"
December 1, KION
If earlier journalists spoiled the lives of screen stars, now TV stars are striking back at the paparazzi: the series "The First Number" based on the script by Sergei Minaev (author of the once sensational novels "Dukhles" and "The Telki") - a major expert on dirty sex, dirty money and dirty laundry of celebrities - is coming out. The script is based on Minaev's own experience as the head of the Russian Esquire - and you can be sure that the scriptwriter treated the small shop secrets without any piety.
A still from "Number One."
Minaev's script is perfectly suited to today's news agenda: his alter ego - the out-of-circulation writer Konstantin Inozemtsev - stands at the helm of a glossy publication a few years later than the real Minaev. The magazine needs to be saved after the departure of Western publishers, and the owners decide to inject new blood into the established editorial team. It is, as it should be, bubbling: drinking, swearing and muzzling seem to form the basis of the editorial policy. The aura of viciousness of the aged Yevgeny Tsyganov, who played the role of Inozemtsev, sets the tone for the events. High feelings in the form of Inozemtsev's former girlfriend (Nadezhda Mikhalkova) look somewhat alien in the entourage - a kind of star of captivating happiness that has fallen into the world of vice. Somewhat spoils the romantic impression of the constant presence of the alter ego of another glossy heroine - Ksenia Sobchak - however, where without the queen of the information fields; without her, the story would be incomplete, and Minaev, as already said - for the truth.
"Star Wars: The Support Team"
Dec. 3, Disney+
For many years, "Star Wars" through the efforts of George Lucas managed to pretend to be a philosophical saga, and even the current genre franchises were made by people with extremely serious faces, which forced viewers with the usual persistence to look for any intellectual subtext in them. But, finally, the veil is dropped, and in another series of Disney + company presents "Star Wars" as they should have been a long time ago: a children's space fairy tale for junior high school students.
The beginning of the story about four schoolchildren from a small planet, who decided to escape from the appointed punishment and unexpectedly crossed half of the universe, is fully in line with the traditions of teenage series, where the duplicate out of curiosity presses the button and launches a terrible and to think what. Space travelers will find an abandoned Jedi temple, find a mentor in the face of the mysterious Jod Na Navud, face bloodthirsty space pirates and, of course, find their way home. The action of the series takes place directly after the events of the sixth movie "Return of the Jedi". Well, now parents - fans of "Star Wars" will have something to show their children.
"Blackbirds."
December 5, Netflix
Spy passions in the family - the theme is not new, but invariably a favorite of the audience. From "True Lies", where Schwarznegger-superagent deftly leads by the nose simpleton wife Jamie Lee Curtis, to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", where the dangerous dancing then a married couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in theaters went to see half the world - the personal life of spies is always of interest. Now in the role of an undercover agent will be another recognized beauty - Keira Knightley. However, humor or even irony, traditionally inherent in spy action movies in the family entourage, do not wait: the creators of "Black Doves" murderously serious - in any sense.
Helen Webb - the wife of a prominent politician and loving mother of two babies. At the same time - a secret agent of the powerful organization "Black Doves", which she year after year gives up political secrets of her husband, and at the same time and the entire political top of Britain. However, when unknown assassins kill Helen's lover, she and her old comrade in the struggle Sam enter the warpath. There will be everything - a sea of blood, mountains of corpses, car chases, explosions with flames to the sky, lightning fights Knightley beauty one-on-one and with a crowd of thugs. And when the pregnant superagent slowly walks across the marble floor past the picturesquely scattered bodies, Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, crying, quietly walk out the door. There are no limits.
"Prometheus."
Dec. 5, Movie Search
In 2018, NBC released the first season of the TV series "Manifest" about a passenger plane on a routine flight that disappeared from the radar for more than five years. The series was not a particular success, but Kinopoisk, which was showing Manifest in Russia, clearly saw potential in the story. However, they decided to dive deeper, sending the airplane on a ghostly flight across the whole of Russia for a quarter of a century.
A still from "Prometheus."
The investigation into the case of the Barnaul-Moscow flight that disappeared 25 years ago has long been deadlocked, but the appearance of one of the disappeared passengers, who reported his arrival to his family from a phone booth as if nothing had happened, forces the search to be resumed. It seems that in this place the lengthening of the otherworldly route of the airliner played a bad joke with the screenwriters: the question of where in a modern airport a passenger can find a pay phone with coins may remain unanswered. However, he is not particularly interested in the investigative team of enthusiasts who decided to get to the bottom of the true meaning of the mysterious incident. In addition to retired special services officer Shaposhnikov - Philip Yankovsky with sharp facial features and the ability to hold meaningful perfectly fit into the image - it will include a journalist Anna (Lyubov Aksenova), physics teacher Vadim (Dmitry Chebotarev) and engineer Nikita (Alexander Alyabiev). They are so different, and yet much they have in common: all of them are handsome, all of them are talents, all of them are ready to meet with eerie secrets. Spirits, shamans, mysterious flickering lights and a tree with ribbons are waiting for them.
"Mammoths"
Dec. 9, Okko
Yuri Stoyanov's creative fecundity can only be envied. He, it seems, does not come off the screen, while managing to remain charming and organic in any role - from the head of a clan of ghouls in "Vampires of the middle strip" to a naive pensioner, deceived by phone scammers in the new series "Mammoths". Pensioner, like, however, and all the heroes Stoyanov, turned out to be so charming and good-natured that you want to believe: good will win, and phone cheaters will be punished. And for sure it will be so.
A still from "Mammoths."
Pensioner Nikolai Nikolaevich (Yuri Stoyanov), having sold his home, wants to move closer to his daughter (Maryana Spivak), - but all the money from the deal he is swindled by crooks who introduced themselves as "bank security service". In the police pensioner can not help - and then he and his 15-year-old granddaughter (Elizaveta Ishchenko) decides to follow the trail of cybercriminals. In the process of searching for justice and money Nikolai Nikolaevich will have to learn that windows are not only in the house, but also in the browser, and his granddaughter - to try to push to the side of the nuuds of his grandfather and, of course, to find love. Light family series will be useful also in an unexpected sense, becoming an extra reason to once again remind the older generation that you should not talk on the cell phone with strangers. Especially - "from the bank security service."
"One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Dec. 11, Netflix
Years later, just before he was shot, Colonel Aureliano Buendia will recall the distant day his father took him to see the ice. This picture, which begins the story of how seven generations of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo unsuccessfully trying to escape from the past and from fate, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez described so vividly that any screenwriter who has not gone beyond the first pages of the great novel, will be sure: this book is simply created for the movie. Those who have read it to the end call it one of the most un-screened novels in history. Colombian filmmakers have decided to dispute this assertion.
A still from "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Marquez himself, who died in 2014, refused on principle to sell the screen rights to "One Hundred Years of Solitude," saying that it was impossible to reveal it in the limited time and space of film and in any language other than Spanish. After the writer's death, the rights to his creative legacy passed to his sons. Apparently, negotiations were long: Netflix didn't get the rights until 2019. One of the conditions of the writer was fulfilled in this case: the series was filmed in Colombia in Spanish. Marquez's sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, were the executive producers and assured all those interested that they and Netflix had enough opportunities to reproduce the spirit of magical realism inherent in the book on the TV screen. Well, we'll soon find out just how much filial reverence is inherent in the Columbians.
"Dexter: Original Sin."
December 13, Paramount+
The series about a homicidal maniac working as a forensic scientist for the Miami Police Department won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards and managed to stay at the top of viewer preferences for eight seasons - from 2006 to 2013. And even a decade later, "Dexter" has retained a loyal audience, which, first and foremost, is intended for the prequel.
A still from Dexter: Original Sin.
The action of the new series unfolds in 1991. He tells about the youth of Dexter Morgan and his half-sister Debra, about how Dexter first awoke thirst for murder. His adoptive father Harry, realizing that he is unable to fight the dark side of the young man, will develop a code of rules for him, which will help Dexter to satisfy the thirst for murder, but at the same time not to harm good people and not be caught. The role of the young maniac will be played by handsome Irishman Patrick Gibson ("The Tudors," "Neverland"), his stepfather - Christian Slater, a great specialist in characters with a double bottom. The reputation of the original "Dexter" is so high that the creators of the prequel are taking a lot of risks: compare their brainchild will be compared to the obviously stellar original.
"The Squid Game"
December 26, Netflix
Only superlatives are appropriate here. The most popular series in the history of Netflix, which brought the service about $1 billion in profits and made the stars yesterday not known to anyone yet Korean actors and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, simply had to have a sequel. Actually, the producers had no doubt about it: the upcoming appearance of the second season of "Squid Game" was announced back in 2021, right after the finale of the show. And today the second season of "The Squid Game" - perhaps the most anticipated series in the world: its release is eagerly awaited by millions of fans.
A still from "The Squid Game."
About the plot of the second season of "The Squid Game" fans judged longer than the production of the series. However, reliable information about it leaked outside the set only recently. So, the winner Song Gi-hoon, who is the only survivor, receives a giant cash award and decides to spend it on tracking down the organizers of the deadly show. But in order to do so, he has to step into the game once again. Will Hwang Dong Hyuk be able to make it as exciting as the first season? The director himself admits in numerous interviews that he too is suffering from insomnia in an attempt to find an answer to this question. Well, we won't have long to wait. We'll find out soon.
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