TV series season open: 10 main autumn premieres
'09.09.2020'
Source: Blueprint
As long as COVID-19 continues to kill cool projects (in August, for example, Melomanka with Zoe Kravitz closed, I Don't Like It with Sophie Lillis and Altered Carbon), we can only rejoice at the new releases. Moreover, September 2020 promises to be prolific. We will finally be shown the fourth season of "Fargo" with Chris Rock, will return (or still not) faith in superheroes, tell the story of the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal and invite Ridley Scott to celebrate his TV debut, writes Blueprint.
"Catch in two weeks" / Two Weeks to Live
Fall surprise for Game of Thrones fans - a series starring Maisie Williams. "Two Weeks for Life" is the story of a girl named Kim Noakes. Her father died under strange circumstances when she was very young, and her mother (played by Cyan Clifford, Fleabag's sister from Trash) took the girl to the backwoods, where she taught all sorts of strange things, such as survival in the wild. Kim grew up to avenge her father's death (and just like Arya Stark made an impressive list for that). One day, the heroine runs away from her mother, hoping to cross out at least a couple of points. But her solo mission predictably fails: Kim can easily skin a deer, but she is ridiculously poorly adapted to real life. As a result, a cool mom and another new friend join her.
Before us is a mixture of parenting novel, detective, action movie and black comedy. With such introductory notes, it's hard to avoid being compared to Close Up, a charming road movie in which Zach Galifianakis walked towards his dream with his father's ashes in a coffee can. "Two weeks", of course, is not so sunny, but if the show does not chase action much, but remains within the framework of a comedy, it has every chance of success.
Fargo / Fargo
The fourth season of "Fargo" will tell about the confrontation between Italian and African American criminal gangs, which, literally as the classic wrote, "are fighting internecine battles and do not want to calm the bloodshed." Only events take place not in Verona, but in Kansas City, Missouri. And the heroes, apparently reading Shakespeare, do not wait for their children to die, but decide to exchange them. So the eldest son of the leader of an African-American organized crime group ends up being raised by the godfather of the "macaroni" in exchange for an Italian offspring. This castling, however, is nothing more than a beautiful move that hides the true plans of the criminals, but a lot of blood will still be shed (especially after the death of one of the leaders). The bullets will be filled with stylish two-piece suits (after all, it is the 50s), and all events will be saturated with typical Cohen's absurdity.
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The first season of the series was based on the brothers' film of the same name, but then the show turned into an anthology (each season a new cast and original plot), and the Coens now appear as executive producers. In the fourth season of the project, Chris Rock, Ben Whishaw, Jason Schwartzman (his every appearance on the screen is a holiday) and the incredible Jesse Buckley (you probably remember her from the role of Princess Bolkonskaya from the BBC series "War and Peace" and "Chernobyl") were called.
"Boys" / The Boys
The long years of on-screen dominance of ideal heroes in tight-fitting tights have done their job - the viewer is tired of them. And the series, showing the seamy side of the superhero world, became a breath of fresh air for him. A combo of satire, realism and violence almost immediately provided "Boys" with a second season (in fact, we will see it in September).
The show is based on the comic strip of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darik Robertson and tells about a universe where superheroes do not hide their faces, work in the "Seven" team and quite willingly agree to advertising contracts. These guys are not heroes from posters, but celebrities with superpowers. They do not rush to the embrasure to save the kitten - they are greedy, deceitful, domineering and vicious, and all their good deeds are regulated by the PR service. But sometimes they screw up in a way that no crisis manager can help. So, for example, pumped up with speed, the superfast Express knocks down Hugh's girl (Jack Quaid) to death, and the super-powerful Homelander rapes and kidnaps the Butcher's wife (Karl Urban). The heroes who have lost loved ones are united in a gang that wants to bring the "super" to the surface. Starlight (Erin Moriarty), a newcomer from the Seven, suddenly comes to their aid. The naive girl dreamed of this job since childhood, but on the very first day her dreams of justice and peace in the whole world were shattered by the indifference of colleagues and sexual harassment.
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In the new season, "Boys" will have a hard time: their team was declared dangerous terrorists, and the heroes' regiment arrived - a powerful Stormfront and a horde of brutal killers with super abilities will appear there.
"Away"
The success of Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity in 2013 kicked off a new space race. After Sandra Bullock, Matt Damon, and Matthew McConaughey, and Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain, and Jennifer Lawrence, and Eva Green, and Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling wore the spacesuit. Now it's Hilary Swank's turn. In the new science fiction series Netflix, she plays the astronaut Emma Green, who will lead the first manned flight to Mars. Emma has to make an important decision: leave her family for three years and fulfill her dream or refuse to fly. And when she still chooses a career, her husband is diagnosed with a serious illness.
The drama of the situation grows at the speed of light. The heroine is eaten by guilt and homesickness, and then the ship is falling apart and it is necessary to somehow find a common language with the international team.
The Third Day
In short, Day Three is a mystical miniseries starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris (Moneypenny!). A cross between Ari Astaire's Solstice and Dean Koontz's detective thrillers.
Lowe's hero - Sam - unexpectedly comes to a strange island off the coast of Britain. At high tide, this quiet corner is isolated from the outside world, so that people here live by their own laws and honor their culture. What attracted Sam so much, he himself does not know. Once upon a time he lost a child, and the pain seems to have rushed over him with renewed vigor. The hero agrees to take part in one of the strange rituals, but there is no relief. Even worse, immediately after the ritual, the ghosts of the past begin to haunt him. Hoping to leave this creepy place, Sam gets into the car, but realizes that the road is flooded. He cannot go further, but it is also scary to return to the community - he is sure that his life is in danger.
"Sister Ratched"
Ryan Murphy - the author of American Horror Story and Politics - is a true workaholic. No wonder he is called one of the most prolific showrunners: only on Netflix his "Hollywood" has died down, as a new premiere looms on the horizon - the life story of the cold-blooded sister Ratched from the triumphantly filmed novel by Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
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How did this woman get so cruel? Why did she end up in a psychiatric clinic and what secrets does she hide? The series begins with Mildred Ratched arriving at a hospital in Northern California known for his experiments on humans. In the main role - Murphy's favorite Sarah Paulson. And in the episodes, you can see both Sharon Stone and Cynthia Nixon.
We Are Who We Are
Luca Guadagnino, director of Splash and Call Me by Your Name, follows fellow countryman Paolo Sorrentino, storming the small screen. His debut eight-episode project follows 14-year-old Fraser Wilson (Jack Dylan Grazer from Shazam) and his heartfelt throwing.
By the will of fate, the boy ended up at an American military base in Italy - he was raised in a same-sex family and both of his mothers serve there (one of them is played by Chloe Sevigny, and the other - by Alice Braga). On the spot, he meets a beautiful woman named Caitlin, and the guys begin a summer romance. But everything in the world prevents Fraser from enjoying it. And especially the new acquaintance Jason, to whom the boy has a genuine interest.
“We are who we are” is a series about growing up, parenting (at some point, Sevigny says: “It is unbearable for him to be both a father and a mother at the same time”), gender stereotypes and the search for oneself.
"Hatchet" / Small Ax
Director Steve McQueen, Oscar winner for 12 Years of Slavery, also made his own miniseries. This is an anthology in the spirit of "Black Mirror", where each episode has a separate finished plot. Like "12 Years", the new five films will talk about racism and the fight against it (two episodes were supposed to be shown in Cannes, but the pandemic has made adjustments to these plans). The first episode in the series is called Mangrove, which is the story of nine activists arrested during a peaceful march in 1970. The scandalous process was not just actively discussed in the media, the court's decision that the London police acted on the basis of racial prejudice went down in history.
Other series will be titled Lovers Rock, Alex Wheatle, Education and Red, White and Blue. “I dedicate these films to George Floyd and all other blacks who have been killed, humiliated, and denied rights in the USA, Great Britain and other countries. Black lives matter, ”the director wrote in a statement published in Variety.
Raised by Wolves
Ridley Scott's debut as a director on the small screen. The author of "Alien", "The Martian" and "Blade Runner" acts in the popular nowadays genre of dystopia. And the plot of the new show is a kind of mix of previous projects. The Great War destroyed the Earth, but people managed to escape. Now on an unknown planet, human children are forced to raise androids. They protect them from all external threats, teach them to survive and at the same time program them so that this new world does not suffer the fate of the Earth. However, a ship soon arrives with a group of surviving people who believe that it is not androids to raise their children. So a new war begins.
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There are two main characters here - one of these machines, which the kids call Mama (played by Amanda Colleen), and Marcus, a soldier from Earth (Travis Fimmel from "Vikings"). Aaron Guzikovsky, author of Prisoners by Denis Villeneuve, is responsible for the script here, and Ben Frost, composer of Darkness, is responsible for the psychedelic music.
American Crime Story: Impeachment
Each season of this crime anthology series details a high-profile case. The first season was devoted to the trial of O. J. Simpson, the second - to the murder of Gianni Versace. The third comes out under the heading "Impeachment" just a month before the US presidential election and is dedicated to the Lewinsky-Clinton sex scandal. What really happened in the Oval Office? How did Clinton's romance with a trainee affect his ratings? How does Monica see these events? How did their connection become known? The show will answer all questions at once.
The role of Linda Tripp, Lewinsky's friend, who leaked the recording of their telephone conversation, went to Sarah Paulson. Monica herself was played by Bini Feldstein ("Lady Bird"), and Clive Owen had to reincarnate in Clinton. The real Monica Lewinsky, by the way, was one of the producers of the project: “Influential people, often men, constantly take advantage of those who obey them. Therefore, at least one honest story, even if mine, is simply necessary, ”reads her official statement. And yes, showrunner Ryan Murphy is also in the credits, without him anywhere.
