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Looking for Alaska is eight-episode miniseries produced by Hulu and available on HBO. It’s based on novel of the same name, written in 2005 by John Green, one of the writers that marked generation with his bestsellers for adolescents like Paper Towns or The Fault in Our Stars. Looking for Alaska was  adapted  in 2019 by Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, the duet that previously created teen drama series like “Gossip Girl,” “The Carrie Diaries,” and Marvel’s “Runaways”.    For an audience that grew up with those shows, “Looking  For  Alaska” creates the perfect wave of nostalgia. Source: rollinstone.com Miles Halter (Charlie Plummer) is a 16-year-old teenager from Orlando who is obsessed with the last words of famous people and is almost desperate to find meaning of his life, “the Great Perhaps”, a concept inspired by the last words of poet Francois Rabelais. Miles decides to change his school for Culv...

'Raised by Wolves' is great science fiction series, created by Aaron Guzikowski and produced by HBO. At first, it presents us planets, powerful androids and spaceships, but then, uncovers other deeper layers. A script takes us into a fascinating universe that challenges us with questions about the human condition.     Source: playtest.pl 'Raised by Wolves' is set in a post-apocalyptic world where during a war between atheists and believers, humanity has been destroyed by androids called Necromancers. Two androids with 12 human embryos were sent by atheists to a faraway planet, Kepler 22b, with a mission of raise a group of children to save humanity and create a new civilization, based on science and without religion.   Mother and Father are two androids in silver latex suits. They are atheists, pacifists and technocrats, in opposition to the deployment of beliefs of humans who worship a deity called Sol. Mother, the lead character of the story, played by excellent Am...

Normal People is a miniseries co-produced by BBC and Hulu. It’s an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestseller novel, which is an intense, delicate, moving and magnetic love story. It was included in 2019 by The Guardian at number 25 on their list of the 100 best novels of the 21st century.   Source: tatler.com Normal People tells a story of Connell (Paul Mescal), a player of the high school football team and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), an arrogant and unpopular girl.  The twelve episodes follows protagonists from high school, where Marianne is constantly teased by a group of popular kids. Among them is Connell, whose mother cleans Marianne's house. First secret connection that occurs between them, ends b roken by the lack of courage of the teenager, who is too afraid of this love.  Then, they meet again at Trinity College in Dublin, where the dynamics are about to change. While they are both brilliant students, Marianne finds herself like a fish in water, while Connel...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has an almost supernatural talent. The English creator of British tragicomic series such as: Fleabag, Killing Eve, Crashing and Run is not only a writer, director and screenwriter, but also an amazing actress. Fleabag is an adaptation of monodrama that Waller-Bridge wrote and presented at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in 2013, winning the first prize. The series is available on Amazon Prime.   Source: birdmenmagazine.com Fleabag is a story of a thirty-year-old woman who has to learn how to deal with herself and the other characters after the death of her friend Boo (Jenny Rainsford) with whom she ran a cafe in London. Her father (Bill Paterson) is widowed and her stepmother, a malevolent painter masterfully played by Olivia Coleman, winner of the Oscar for Best Leading Actress for the film The  Favourite  (2019), who is constantly teases his stepdaughter, making her feel bad every time she visits her father.    The script has a tendency t...

Today I’m going to tell you about another series, “Big Little Lies” produced by HBO. 7-episode miniseries, based on Liane Moriarty's bestseller of the same title, was one of the best series in 2017. The show was created by David E. Kelley ("Goliath") and co-executive-produced by Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman. In 2019, after a huge success of first season,  HBO offered Kidman and Witherspoon the possibility of filming a second season for which they had not signed (and which they negotiated in their favour, raising salaries to one million per episode), they asked screenwriter if he was interested in repeating the adventure and together  decided to continue the series and shoot second season. They also added to the cast another famous actress, Meryl Streep. Source: latimes.com   “Big Little Lies” is a thriller dressed as drama with shades of black comedy. All  episodes are structured around a murder. We don’t know exactly who was killed, but as the show plays out,...

The trivialization of the Star Wars brand is absolutely unstoppable in the hands of Disney. Their plan to offer a new film every Christmas was an ambitious, but predictable idea made without passion for the whole Star Wars series. During the failure of the trilogy of sequels, people started watching “The Mandalorian”, first Star Wars live-action television series created by John Favreau and  available on  Disney +, streaming platform which unfortunately still isn’t available in Poland. The plot and production aspects were a secret until the premiere of pilot episode, which appeared on Disney+ in November 2019. The first episode in just 38 minutes introduces some important characters and manages to set the plot: after the fall of the Empire and before the appearance of the First Order. The eight chapters can be understood as eight more or less independent stories, united by a common plot. The whole series is a mixture of spaghetti western in the St...

The HBO series We are who we are is an eight-episode youth drama. It’s the latest project of Luca Guadagnino, director of 'Call me by your name' and ' Suspiria ', in which he explores the sexuality in youth and in adulthood; demonstrating that our identity or what we think we are is something that is constantly changing.   Luca Guadagnino takes up his interest in filming and analysing something as human as the development of identity, desire and attraction. This development has been one of the most interesting aspects of this HBO series. Luca is focused on behaviour, personal growth, cinematic visual language and not plot.   Source: irishcinephile.com Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer), an introverted young man who is traveling with his family from one destination to another, is moving to an American military base in Veneto in Italy due to the promotion that his mother gets in the military corpus. Step by step, Fraser makes new friend, Harper, while discovering who he really is...