The AppleTV+ platform joins the myCANAL offer: the opportunity to find new original series, including the essential comedy “Ted Lasso” or “The Morning Show”, a satire on the world of television.
It is this Thursday, April 20 that the new partnership between the AppleTV + and myCANAL platforms begins. The series and films produced by the American streaming service are thus available at no additional cost. The opportunity to discover real nuggets, including new essential series rewarded with prestigious awards in the United States.
What are the five Apple series not to be missed under any circumstances? Here is our selection!
The Morning Show
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An uncompromising behind-the-scenes portrait of a morning TV show in the United States, where ego, ambitions and the desperate quest for power generate tensions within the team. Among these people who are helping America wake up, two women are trying to hold their own. And it is not easy in this ruthless environment, especially since they have to manage the crises of their personal life.
Starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell…
This is one of the first series from Apple TV+, which the platform offered to its subscribers in 2019. And its cast has nothing to envy to cinema films. Spectators have in any case appreciated the proposal as evidenced by the note on its AlloCiné file – 4.2/5 – making The Morning Show one of the best series in the catalog.
• The performance of its cast, ranging from Jennifer Aniston to Reese Witherspoon via Steve Carrell and Billy Crudup.
• The Morning Show is a series in tune with the times, which portrays strong women and which accurately deals with the subject touchy sexual harassment, through the fall of its star presenter played by Carell.
• An exciting dive behind the scenes of television, between ego wars, low blows and sorority. It’s a whole industry that’s been hurt.
Ted Lasso
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In order to get revenge for her ex-husband’s infidelities, Rebecca Welton decides to sabotage the results of her beloved football club, from which she inherited the reins, by hiring an American football coach as head coach… who knows nothing about soccer! But the optimism and the values advocated by Ted Lasso will gradually restore confidence to the members of this team at the bottom of the table!
With Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham…
You don’t need to know the offside rule, or even be a football aficionado, to enjoy this comedy, which has won numerous awards including two Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series.
There are in this series co-created by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) all the elements of a comforting and addictive program, and the few more dramatic twists will make the characters of Ted Lasso even more endearing to you!
• A cast led by a Jason Sudeikis also credited as co-creator of the series.
• A clever mix of humor and seriousness that will make you go through all the emotions.
• A dive into the world of the English Premier League, with some tasty cameos!
Foundation
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When eminent Professor Hari Seldon predicts the impending downfall of the Galactic Empire, the Cleons – a long line of ruling emperor clones – fear that their heretofore unrivaled rule is in jeopardy.
They are then forced to consider the potential reality of losing their mighty heritage forever and take steps to limit the damage. Dr. Seldon and a few of his followers are sent to the far reaches of the galaxy to build the Foundation, a special place to preserve the knowledge of civilization, in hopes of rebuilding it.
Starring Jared Harris, Lou Llobell, Lee Pace…
With Foundation, Apple tackled a work of science fiction deemed unsuitable by its complexity. She brings to the screen “The Foundation Cycle” in which Isaac Asimov imagines a world where humanity is governed by a new form of science, psychohistory, designed to anticipate the future.
The latter imagines the imminent fall of civilization, with the consequences that we imagine (war of powers, political games and religious beliefs called into question). Lee Pace and Jared Harris give the reply to little-known actors who come out with the honors.
• The beauty of its images. If the series can fish on the bottom, its impeccable realization comes to counterbalance the whole.
• Foundation is one of his SF works during which you have to stay attentive to understand everything. If you like series and movies that make you think (and headache at the same time), then this is for you.
• An exciting reflection on time, on people, on the past and the future.
Severance
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Mark Scout works for Lumon Industries, where he leads a team whose employees undergo surgery to separate their memories related to their professional life from those related to their private life. This risky experiment in balancing work and personal life is challenged when Mark finds himself at the heart of a mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his job…and his own.
With Adam Scott, Dichen Lachman, Patricia Arquette…
A true satire of the world of work under the influence of George Orwell, Severance is a series composed for the time being of a season of nine episodes in total, most of them directed by Ben Stiller, also credited as producer of the program.
• Known for his comedic roles, Adam Scott excels in this dramatic counter-employment!
• A cynical and satirical plot, which questions our own relationship to work.
• An iconic soundtrack composed of many pop and rock hits, but also lesser-known nuggets.
Servant
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After losing her child, Dorothy Turner uses a doll for therapeutic purposes. The situation takes a strange turn when she hires a nanny to take care of the baby. Worried about the mental health of his wife, Sean does not see the arrival of this foreigner with a very good eye. Especially since the girl’s behavior quickly turns out to be disturbing. Could the nanny become a threat? And would the Turners have things to hide?
With Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Rupert Grint…
Director M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The village) uses his taste for the mysterious and the strange in the Servant series. Composed of three seasons – a fourth and last is expected for next fall – this program is a suffocating camera that sometimes recalls the great hours of horror cinema of the 70s with, as a bonus, an atypical humor.
• A neat and on-the-wire staging by M. Night Shyamalan himself and other talented directors, including the Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau – she directs the first two episodes of season 2.
• Shyamalan obliges, Servant combines many clever and surprising reversals of situations.
• The cast is one of the strengths of the series. Lauren Ambrose excel, while Rupert Grint manages without difficulty to forget his role of Ron Weasley.