The first of the ten chapters that make up the first season of for a better tomorrow will be available on Apple TV+ on February 17. Behind this sci-fi drama set in a retro-futuristic world we have Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen, two unknown people on whose resumes we can’t find any previous renowned work. Directing all episodes is Jonathan Entwistle, showrunner of The End of the F***ing World and This Shit Is Beyond Me, which is also one of the producers.
For a Better Tomorrow takes us to an optimistic retro-futuristic world that could well be the same as Fallout before the Great War or the animated series The Jetsons. Cars fly on asphalt, husbands ride jet packs to work, humanity has conquered space, and robots are ubiquitous and can do almost anything, including walking the dog, serving bars and restaurants, and serving as housekeepers. police. Even ties tie themselves and homes are filled with generously sized, round-shaped appliances.
What more can you ask of this world? A timeshare on the Moon. That’s where our protagonist Jack Billings (Billy Crudup) comes in, a charismatic, ambitious and talented businessman who leads a group of salespeople who seek to change the lives of their clients by selling them timeshare on the Moon.
“There is no one here who is not a dreamer. Not in a world like this where you can have it all. We live with miracles within reach. There are robots that collect garbage. We fly for the stars. And this is what I want for you and your families. This is the dream you all deserve. Soon they’ll be like, ‘wow, I love living on the moon,’” says Jack Billings in the trailer. The blind faith that our protagonist in a more prosperous future inspires his companions and makes his clients recover the will to live, but “it also threatens to consume him by the very dream that sustains him,” says the synopsis.
For a better tomorrow, Fallout and The Jetsons take place in a world of science fiction, but reality is their starting point. In the case of these three products, the Age of Opulence, a boom time in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. This period of just over two decades was marked by voracious consumerism that led Americans to buy a large number of goods, including houses, furniture, cars and home appliances. The post-war economic boom invited people to think that tomorrow everything would be better, because looking at the past was not pleasant at all.
Liaisonthe first Anglo-French production of Apple TV +, will arrive on the platform of streaming on February 24. The six-episode series is the brainchild of Virginie Brac (Cheyenne and Lola), while British-Australian Stephen Hopkins is directing, who already played the same role in the first season of 24. In front of the cameras we find no more no less than Eva Green, whom we still remember from Penny Dreadful, and Vincent Cassel, whom we saw not long ago in Westworld.
Liaison is described as “a fast-paced, contemporary thriller that explores how the mistakes we made in the past have the power to destroy our future.” The series promises to combine “action with an unpredictable and multi-layered plot, in which espionage and political intrigue are intertwined with a story of love and passions.” Beyond the popous synopsis, we can say little more than Liaison, since no further details have been disclosed to this day. No trailer for the series has been shown either.
What we can add is that Apple TV+ has not always been good at choosing thrillers. Suspects with Uma Thurman was a fiasco, Tehran is unknown whether or not it is renewed for a third season, Shantaram has been canceled and Echo 3 has gone under the radar. Despite this, no one can deny that the beginnings of Apple TV + as a service streaming they are very solid thanks to Separation, Ted Lasso, For all mankind, Mythic Quest, Foundation or Locked up with the devil. Let’s hope that Liaison, whose leading duo promises, is closer to the second group than the first.
The first of the eight chapters that make up The Consultant, a series that mixes suspense and black humor, will be available on Prime Video on February 24. The series adapts the homonymous novel by Bentley Little, a horror and science fiction writer who twice won the Bram Stoker Award in the 1990s, a recognition from the Horror Writers Association. The person in charge of adapting the book has been Tony Basgallop, who the parishioners of Apple TV + will know for being the creator of Servant.
The Consultant transports us to CompWare, a mobile video game company that is on the brink of financial collapse. To straighten out the company, the executive director hires a consultancy that sends Regus Patoff (Christoph Waltz) to review the company from top to bottom with the aim that it can turn around the bad situation it is going through. Patoff begins by interacting with employees with inappropriate questions, and it doesn’t take long for him to be a nuisance to the entire CompWare staff.
As time passes, Patoff gains more power within CompWare, to the point that he seems to run the entire company. Among the consultant’s invasive and arbitrary initiatives are installing cameras throughout the building, making workers paranoid, calling employees home at night, paying them visits, and threatening their families. Those who challenge his authority are fired, or worse. “I offer a very simple service. My purpose is to improve this business. If it helps to see me as a monster, so be it,” says Patoff. “We work for a sociopath,” says one employee.
CompWare’s staff soon realize that it’s not just their jobs they’re fighting for, their lives could also be in danger.
The Consultant (the book) is not available in Spanish.
The second and final season of Carnival Row will be available on Prime Video on February 17. The new episodes will arrive on the service of streaming almost four years after the debut of the series, something that is explained in large part by the stoppage of production due to the coronavirus pandemic. Filming for the second season began in November 2019, was interrupted in March 2020, and resumed in August 2020 without Orlando Bloom due to the birth of his son. His scenes were shot in May 2021.
without entering spoilers and for those unfamiliar, Carnival Row is a fantasy series set in the dark, neo-Victorian town of Burge, which has become a haven for mythical creatures like fairies and fauns fleeing their respective plague-stricken territories. war. Humans rule in Burge, who do not look kindly on the growing arrival of immigrants who survive as best they can in ghettos. To further complicate matters, a serial killer appears, hunting down non-humans.
The person in charge of investigating one of these murders is the police inspector Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom), who soon becomes personally involved in the case. During his investigation, he will come into contact with Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne), a fairy who has come to Burge after her homeland has been invaded and her family murdered.
Carnival Row was destined to be one of Prime Video’s great series. One of those productions that attract clicks and help in SEO because in its headline you could put that it was Amazon’s Game of Thrones. However, Carnival Row showed more potential than anything else. That does not mean that it is not a very good series, especially suitable for fantasy lovers, but due to the expectations that more than one generated, he was disappointed. What cannot be denied is that the series is not short on budget.
In 2019 Amazon renewed Carnival Row before its premiere, but no one took a second season for granted due to the reception of the first. To this we must add the problems of filming the new chapters. In any case, Amazon has decided to give Carnival Row a second and final season, something that both the series and its fans deserve. Netflix should learn from it.
Before ending the article, a review of the calendar and the series that during the last month have been renewed, canceled or have announced their end.
- Renewed: Wednesday (S2), Billy the Kid (S2), Minx (S2, revives on Starz), Alpha Males (S2). Chucky (S3), Reginald the Vampire (S2), SEAL Team (S7), BMF (S3), Outlander (S8 and last), Cobra Kai (S6 and last), Family Guy (S22, S23), Bob’s Burgers ( T14, T15), The Simpsons (T35, T36) and The Last of Us (T2)
- Cancelled: 1899, Pantheon, The Chair, Snowpiercer (T4 runs out of chain), Gossip Girl, Mismatched and The Mosquito Coast
- End: Fear The Walking Dead (S8), Mayans MC (S5), NCIS: Los Angeles (S14), Doom Patrol (S4), and Titans (S4)
