Every week new series premiere, other well-known and beloved ones return, and the schedule can easily become impossible. In this section we make five proposals with which, in principle, it is impossible to go wrong. Although it is hard to believe, there is life beyond ‘Succession’.
1. ‘Endeavor (season 9)’ (Filmin, Tuesday)
The final season of the celebrated prequel to ‘Inspector Morse’ (and the Colin Dexter novels on which it was based) arrives in Spain, with shun evans as a constable and then a police officer in 1960s Oxford. There are three last episodes with, as usual, a movie length: ‘Prelude’, ‘Uniforme’ and ‘Exeunt’, the first of them directed by Evans himself. In ‘The Guardian’, Mark Lawson has spoken of the latter as a “perfect ending”, neither more nor less.
2. ‘We are sorry for the inconvenience (season 2)’ (Movistar Plus+, Thursday)
John Cavestany and Alvaro Fernandez-Armero continue to explore male old age through a hilarious and recognizable pair of friends. In this second season, Rafa (Miguel Rellan) has entered a depression due to his prostate cancer and tries to get Rafael (Antonio Resines) help him die, but he refuses, among other things because he has his own problems. The vital perspective of both will change with the excursion to Torremolinos organized by their intellectual colleague Alejandro (Manuel Galiana).
3. ‘The Power’ (Prime Video, Friday)
The writer Naomi Aldermann adapts her own 2016 best-seller into this supernatural yet realistic thriller with electric feminist motivation. In very distant parts of the globe, teenagers from very different origins begin to develop the power to electrocute people at will. Among them, Jos (Auli’i Carvalho), daughter of the mayoress played by Toni Collette and her husband Rob, the no less great John Leguizamo. Produced by the British company SISTER (‘Chernobyl’, ‘This is going to hurt’).
4. ‘Rabbit hole’ (SkyShowtime, Friday)
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kiefer sutherland returns to the series (which, in fact, has not left for a long time) with this paranoid ‘thriller’ concocted by john requa and Glenn Ficarra, the duo of hit movies like ‘Crazy, stupid, love.’ or ‘Focus’. Former counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer is now a spy accused of murder by powerful forces that control society. Also in the cast are Charles Dance (Tywin from ‘Game of Thrones’) and Rob Yang (Lawrence Yee from ‘Succession’), among other interesting faces.
5. ‘The Envoys’ (SkyShowtime, Friday)
Produced and, in some episodes, directed by Juan Jose Campanella (Oscar winner for ‘El secreto de sus ojos’), this Mexican-Argentinean co-production sounds like a variation on ‘Evil’. If in that one, a forensic psychologist and a priest come together to investigate alleged demonic possessions, in this case two apparent Vatican priests (Miguel Angel Silvestre and Luis Gerardo Mendez) verify miracles in a small Mexican town and, already for the future second season, a Galician convent.
