Fast weddings and long funerals: what premieres of TV series await us in January
In January viewers are traditionally waiting for good fairy tales with happy endings, but this time the TV program pleases with its tolerance for fans of all genres without exception. There is also a historical detective drama "Lockerbie. In Search of Truth", dedicated to the investigation of the terrorist attack on board an airplane in 1988, and mystical thriller "Ghostbusters" about the search for an otherworldly killer, and even an Armenian folk parable about a funeral - however, more life-affirming than any other love story. About the most notable TV premieres of January tell "Izvestia".
"Lily of the valley. Such tender love."
Wink, January 1
Thedaughter of a billionaire Katya Orlova (Nika Zdorik - "Crash Test", "Gardemarines 1787") grows up in London in a posh parental penthouse, meets with a curly-haired handsome man - the son of one of his father's business partners, travels the world exclusively on a private jet and generally leads a life that serials always attribute to the golden youth. But everything changes overnight: Katya's parents die in a car crash, she remains the sole heiress of a huge fortune, and her father's partner, who turned out to be a very dishonest type, wants to marry the girl to his playboy son. Katya, who caught her boyfriend in an unambiguous situation with a stewardess, doesn't want to know the cheater anymore, thus disrupting the plans of the villainous businessman and putting her life in danger.
A still from the TV series "Lily of the valley. Such tender love"
The hunt is better than the hunt: having refused to marry the golden boy in London, Katya hastily becomes the wife of a future officer in Vologda. Now Katya and Lesha (Sergei Gorodnichy - "Kalimba", "Cicadas") will have to find a solution to the villain and on the difficult path to salvation to finally find their love. In the process of searching Katya will have to learn how to scrub floors and cook dinner for her husband, and in the climax to appear before the audience with a guitar and perform a heartfelt voice participant in the show "The Voice" Anastasia Belyavskaya. Nothing more tender for the traditionally languid first day of the year can be imagined.
"Miss You"
Netflix, Jan. 1
The important phenomena of our everyday lives do not immediately lend themselves to artistic reflection. It takes more than one year before the landmark innovations that have changed our lives are evaluated and weighed by members of the creative class. So the appearance of a series about the vicissitudes of online daiting can be considered very timely.
A still from "Missing You."
Actually, the surprises will begin with the very beginning. Detective Kat Donovan in the application for dating finds her ex-fiancé, who disappeared without a trace 18 years ago: an unexpected date, nothing to say. Kat doesn't have time to think about what happened, though: she has to plunge headlong into the case of a missing woman who has gone somewhere with her new boyfriend, who turns out to be Kat's disappeared fiancé. And then the murderer of Kat's father, dying in prison, admits that the case was fabricated and he did not kill anyone. Unraveling a tangle of secrets and deceptions will take a long time, and all this time the audience, most likely, will be difficult to tear themselves away from the screens: the script of the new series is based on the eponymous detective Harlan Coben, the winner of numerous literary awards - a famous master of intrigue. Netflix screens his books with commendable regularity, and each adaptation - "The Maelstrom", "The Stranger", "The Missing" - becomes an event in the world of TV shows. To those who will give up online dating after the series ends, returning to good old-fashioned live dating, the network apologizes in advance.
"Lockerbie. In Search of the Truth."
Peacock, Jan. 2
On Dec. 21, 1988, a Pan American airliner traveling from London to New York didn't even make it to the ocean. An explosion on board over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 253 people on board. One of the passengers was 23-year-old Flora Swire, the daughter of English GP Jim Swire. He later headed a committee of relatives of the victims of the plane crash over Lockerbie and dedicated his life to seeing that the true perpetrators were punished. Swire traveled to Libya, pushed for retrial and insisted that the investigation bring charges of complicity against the Arab Jamahiriya and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi personally. In 1990, Swire carried a fake bomb aboard an airplane to draw the attention of British authorities to an aviation security problem.
A still from "Lockerbie. In Search of Truth."
Jim Swire is still alive today, he is 88 years old. Playing him in the series Colin Firth - 64, but it was Firth with his unremovable image of uncompromisingly good guy, perhaps, was the best available choice for the creators of the TV show. In everything else, promise the authors - Jim Loach and Otto Baferst, the latter of whom is known for his work on "Black Mirror" and "Sharp Visors" - the plot does not deviate from the real story. Fans of serious conspiracy theories, your hour has come.
"Simon"
PREMIER, Jan. 2
A big Greek wedding interpreted by the Andreasian Brothers Film Company turned into a big Armenian funeral - but no less crowded, noisy and life-affirming. In the Armenian town of Berd dies a bricklayer Simon, the father of a vast family and an incorrigible womanizer. At the funeral, along with Simon's wife, Melania, are four of his former lovers - Sylvia, Eliza, Sofia and Susanna. At first the ladies quarrel a little about which of the five Simon loved more, but then they realize that his great and pure love was enough for all of them. Then everyone will remember the touching moments of happiness with the loving mason, which will bring pure tears to the eyes of all the participants of the action. After all, love is happiness, and life goes on as long as Simon is remembered by all those who were happy with him. Happy ending.
A still from "Simon."
The premiere of "Simon", perhaps, not in vain timed to coincide with the end of the big New Year's bender, when especially dashing lovers of festive fun tensely count the losses and make lists of those to whom in the remaining holiday days will have to apologize somehow. Simon's story will help those affected realize that everything done with love was done for a reason - and therefore, there's nothing to worry about. More restrained fans of cinema can simply enjoy meeting the heroines of yesterday: Simon's lovers were played by Olga Kabo, Alena Khmelnitskaya, Irina Bezrukova and Alika Smekhova. As they say, Happy New Year, with old happiness.
"Of Women and Asuras"
Netflix, Jan. 9
Four sisters have long since become adults and socialize infrequently. Tsunako is an ikebana teacher, Takiko is a librarian, Sakiko is a waitress, and Makiko is a housewife. The girls' father has a second family - a longtime mistress and a child by her. They try to find out the details, while trying to hide what is going on from their mother, but the latter learns everything, and from that moment events get out of control. The mother goes to the divorcée to deal personally, the father smokes nervously behind the door, and the sisters try their best to keep their own sins under the carpet - adultery, unwanted pregnancies, family quarrels - stubbornly climbing into the light in the general chaos of passions. All collisions will be resolved in the end, but not as it seems to the heroines initially.
A still from "Of Women and Asuras."
The series is based on the book by Japanese writer Kuniko Mukoda, winner of the prestigious Naoki Literary Award. This is not her first screen adaptation: the film was released in 2003. The series was directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018 for Shoplifters. The pastel entourage of 1970s Japan complements a win-win set of ingredients for success.
"Pristine America"
Netflix, Jan. 9
The Western is experiencing another renaissance: in recent years, filmmakers have tried their hand at crossbreeding it with genres ranging from dystopia to cyberdrama - and every time, not without success. This time they decided to add some female strength to the western: a lonely, unyielding heroine in the Wild West. However, there will be no miracle woman in the prairie setting: the protagonist, fighting her way through the Wild West with her teenage son in search of her husband, will be protected first by a wanderer who has lost the meaning of life, and then by a nomadic group of Mormon settlers, together with whom she will have to fight back against both the forces of nature and the indigenous people of the prairie, who do not want to tolerate the pale-face on their land.
A still from "America's Original Series"
Cabins with canvas canopies and heavy single-shot rifles, uneven wooden walls of forts and tepees burned to the ground, frantic races and mesmerizing prairie landscapes, Indian beads and mourning-black wide-brimmed Mormon hats - the external entourage of the western the show's creators observed with all possible scrupulousness. Perhaps "Pristine America" will not achieve unexpected explosive popularity, but the care with which Netflix approaches the creation of its shows, and the budgets allocated by the service to them guarantee at least a decent spectacle for fans of the genre.
"Ghostbusters."
OKKO, Jan. 17
The mother of 12-year-old Zhenya is killed in a fire. The boy himself survived by a miracle, and now he has to find out the cause of the misfortune and find the culprit in his mother's death. Help him will be ghost hunters - former investigator Maxim and his scary mute partner. They are firmly convinced that everything is to blame - a murderous ghost, which becomes alive and subjugates them to its will. The wife will have to meet the spirit of her mother to get clues that will help to catch the villain from that council, who hates women with red hair.
A still from "Ghostbusters."
If you, deceived by the cute childish look of Vadim Filipchenkov, who played the role of Zhenya, decided to spend a quiet family evening with children watching a new mystical series - it is better to abandon this idea in advance. The creators of "Ghostbusters" offer the viewer quite adult horror with the same not childish suspense and the corresponding moral choices for the characters: the attempt of Jenya to come to terms with the fact that he will no longer see his mother on this side of reality, not easy to realize children under 16 - the ability of 15-year-old Filipchenkov to play this promises us a worthy actor in the coming years. The only detail full of childlike touching naivety, perhaps, can be called the boy's instant unconditional trust in the ghost hunters with the faces of Alexei Maklakov with his trademark constipated maniacal talk and the infernal Arseny Kasperovich.
"Watson."
CBS, Jan. 26
Arthur Conan Doyle tried to bury his most famous character as early as 1893, but neither the public nor publishers were ready to part with the hero - and stories about Sherlock Holmes appeared in print for more than three decades. The writer is long gone, and the whole 20th century, from the soulless technocratism of which the great detective hid in the apiary, has managed to fade into oblivion, - but the creators still can't stop and with cynical persistence try to adapt the detective of the Victorian era to modern realities. The creators of "Watson" went even further - now Holmes' permanent friend, assistant and biographer will try to nestle in the modernity. He wears modern suits, doesn't get lost among antibiotics and electron microscopes, and for full immersion in modernity he changed his skin color to black.
A still from the movie "Watson."
A year after Holmes' death at the hands of Professor Moriarty, modern Watson opens his own clinic, naming it after his dead friend. Using the skills of detective-investigator, which he managed to adopt from the famous detective, Watson uses them to find diagnoses in the most complicated cases, the solution of which cannot be found by ordinary doctors. But soon the doctor will have to meet Moriarty again - and go up against him for the sake of his dead friend's memory. The show is a mix of medical drama and detective - and the mix was so cool that, to tell the truth, it is not clear why the name of the famous detective was inserted into the plot. And this mystery, alas, Watson will hardly manage to solve.
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