Temperatures are beginning to rise on the thermometer, but also on video-on-demand (VOD) platforms, which welcome the arrival of spring with great cultural interest in documentaries. In this way, Netflix bets again on the true crime with the events of a religious sect in the early 90s in Waco: The Texas Apocalypse while a few days later the long-awaited second season of I’m Georginaabout the intense life of the influencer Georgina Rodriguez. HBO Max, for its part, launches the compilation of concerts that different Spanish artists staged in unusual spaces in the Canary Islands, as well as their reflections on their own careers, in Acoustic home.
Beyond the premiere of some originals, the fourth week of March stands out for the news of acquired productions, such as the arrival on Netflix of the Turkish series Who are we running from, mom?or the premiere of the fantastic Life after life, on Netflix, produced by the BBC. Movistar Plus+, for its part, launches the four episodes of the Channel 5 documentary series Women’s health, breaking tabooson the stigmatization of women’s intimate health.
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Disney+ cups its catalog with the premiere of the musical Up herefrom Hulu, and the reprogramming of youth series such as Saturdays or the third season of Sulfur Springs Secrets after passing through the Disney Channel.
All in all, intrigue series continue to be the great bet of the platforms: the night agent comes to Netflix to ensure our safety and that of the President of the United States, while the girls from Yellowjackets (Movistar Plus+) must defend themselves, in their anticipated second season, from an unexpected threat in their fight for survival.
Waco: The Texas Apocalypse (March 22)
Netflix continues to specialize its documentary branch in true crimes Americans with some degree of morbidity. This miniseries with previously unpublished images has the confrontation of federal agents against an armed religious group in 1993led by the preacher David Koresh, who thought he was a direct son of God and changed Israel for Waco (Texas) as the place of his martyrdom. The man was charged with having sex with minors, in addition to numerous other crimes.
Trailer for ‘Waco: The Texas Apocalypse’. (Netflix)
the empty kingdomT2 (March 22)
Between the detective genre and the political drama, the series of Marcelo Pineyro y Claudia Piñeiro returns with a second part about the story of the rise to power of pastor Emilio Vázquez Pena, superbly played by Diego Peretti. The Argentine production will count the battle between the new president and Tadeo Vázquez (Peter Lanzani)his most direct opponent.
Trailer for the second season of ‘The Empty Kingdom’. (Netflix)
the night agent (23 of March)
There is an emergency phone in the basement of the White House that never rings… until now. Under this premise, the new thriller de action de Netflix presents a Gabriel Low in the skin of Peter Sutherland, a night security agent who overnight should be in charge of ensuring the integrity of the president of the United States.
Trailer for ‘The Night Agent’. (Netflix)
Second part of the follow-up not everyday life of the wife of the famous soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. Georgina’s journey in this new season goes from Manchester to Dubai, Lapland and the Latin Grammys, where she meets the singer Rosalía, among other destinations. The series recounts the last year of the diva, who has experienced the best and the worst moment of her life with the birth of her twins and the death of one of them.
Trailer for the second season of ‘I’m Georgina’. (Netflix)
Who are we running from, mom? (March 24th)
Turkey continues to export its best drama and intrigue series. Who are we running from, mom? is the intense adventure between a mother with a dark past and her daughter. Both become anonymous fugitives overnight as they survive from hotel to hotel each night. The mystery about the terror that persecutes this family is served.
Trailer for ‘Who are we running from, mom?’. (Youtube)
Up here (March 24th)
Big names from the world of Broadway, such as Thomas Kailrecording director of the musical Hamiltono Steven Levinsonscreenwriter of Dear Evan Hansen and the movie Tick tick… boom!are responsible for this romantic and musical comedy between a young woman recently arrived in New York and a Latino boy that they should listen to what their hearts dictate instead of the voices that live in their heads.
‘Up here’ trailer. (Hulu)
Saturdays (March 24th)
Disney Channel’s new series about the teenage world of roller skating is also coming to the service of streaming of the popular mouse. Tells the story of a group of friends who attend Saturdays every Saturday, the skating center where they can release the tensions of the week and express themselves with the speed of their movements. A whole love letter to skates and eighties nostalgia from the point of view of generation Z.
‘Saturdays’ trailer. (Disney Channel)
Sulfur Springs SecretsS3 (March 24)
The dark Disney Channel teen series about the haunted hotel tremont louisiana returns with more mysteries and scares with its third season, full of trapped ghosts and time travel. She suitable to be seen in family.
Trailer for the third season of ‘The Secrets of Sulfur Springs’. (Disney Channel)
Only you: an animated shorts collection (23 of March)
Animation makes its way to HBO Max with this anthology of different stories and techniques, made by some of the newest talents in animated cinema, such as Chris Fequiere, Yoo Lee o Dominick Green, among others. The selection of fictions draws attention for its variety of textures and shadeswhich pass from the stop-motion even the style closest to the comic.
Trailer of the anthology ‘Only you: an animated shorts collection’. (Youtube)
Acoustic home (March 24th)
Produced by Señor Mono and Sony, ten artists from the contemporary Spanish music scene are interviewed about their career and the meaning of the cultural industry, while offering peculiar concerts in different landscapes of the Canary Islands. With the presence of The Ear of Van Gogh, Sergio Dalma, Niña Pastori, Estopa, Pol Granch, Melendi, Raphael, Malú and many more, seeks the connection of each artist with the space where they perform.
Avance de ‘Acoustic home’. (HBO Max)
Women’s health: breaking taboos (March 21st)
British four-episode documentary series in which the presenter Cherry Healy inquire into the main conflicts and taboos around women’s intimate health today, from severe menstrual pain to endometriosis or menopause. Healy carries out an exhaustive survey of the social scourge that this has entailed and the possible existing treatments and aids, through different interviews with women and specialists who share her experience.
Extract from ‘Women’s health: breaking taboos’. (Channel 5)
YellowjacketsT2 (March 24)
The interpreter Elijah Wood (The Lord of the rings) joins the cast of the highly anticipated second season of this Emmy-nominated crime series. The soccer players’ fight for survival in the wild state of Ontario is complicated by the appearance of a possible cult that tries to deceive them with a violent methodology.
Trailer for the second season of ‘Yellowjackets’. (Paramount+)
Life after life (March 21st)
The multiverse reaches the fiction of the time by the hand of two leading British interpreters: Thomas’s McKenzieknown for the movies Jojo Rabbit y Last night in Sohoy Sian Cliffordfrom the series Fleabag. The 4-episode miniseries from the BBC arrives in Spain by Filmin and explores the concept of reincarnation through the character of Ursula, a girl who drowns with the umbilical cord in her birth, but who is reborn in other timelines where it survives. The fiction starts from the Edwardian era to narrate the vital passage of the protagonist through times of world war conflicts.
‘Life after life’ trailer. (YouTube)
The last releases of March will arrive next week with the long-awaited fourth and final season of Succession on HBO Max as well as the comedy The prize of your life on Apple TV or teenage supernatural fiction The powerwith the presence of Toni Collette in its eminently female cast.
Temperatures are beginning to rise on the thermometer, but also on video-on-demand (VOD) platforms, which welcome the arrival of spring with great cultural interest in documentaries. In this way, Netflix bets again on the true crime with the events of a religious sect in the early 90s in Waco: The Texas Apocalypse while a few days later the long-awaited second season of I’m Georginaabout the intense life of the influencer Georgina Rodriguez. HBO Max, for its part, launches the compilation of concerts that different Spanish artists staged in unusual spaces in the Canary Islands, as well as their reflections on their own careers, in Acoustic home.