What’s better to put things into perspective before the holidays than a good dose of drama? From Big Little Lies to Succession, via House of the Dragon, the worst family reunions can be (re)experienced via Prime Video’s Warner Pass!
Before the holidays, Prime Video is offering you some drama therapy!
Whether it’s awkward conversations, inedible logs or family arguments, everyone has a reason to be anxious when thinking about the end-of-year holidays. Fortunately, Prime Video comes to your rescue with a method whose effectiveness no longer needs to be proven: the Warner Pass and his drama therapy.
So, whether they treat the subject with humor or seriousness, these series are the best way to prepare yourself for the coming crisis!
Most poignant: Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies offers you drama, yes. But quality drama!
Crowned with no less than 13 Emmy Awards and Golden Globes in 2017, the series directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Sharp Objects), based on the novel by Liane Moriarty, addresses, not without a touch of irony, small worries of privileged couples on the Californian coast.
But when a mechanism of violence is triggered and its consequences take on unimaginable proportions, the series takes on an unparalleled gravity to reach heights of emotional and dramatic power.
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A gem of writing brilliantly produced by a great, late filmmaker, and carried by a prestigious group of actresses at the top of their art: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and even Zoë Kravitz.
Funniest: The White Lotus
As funny and sexy as it is acidic and irreverent, The White Lotus follows different groups of tourists on vacation in the four corners of the world. But the heavenly setting in which these characters have the chance to evolve leads to many excesses: sex, alcohol, lies and betrayals…
The series combines all the elements conducive to the explosion of an inevitable drama.
Fortunately, The White Lotus decides to laugh at the chaos that gradually sets in in each of its episodes, and manages to seduce with its gallery of colorful characters.
At the top of this pyramid of talented actors, the fantastic Jennifer Coolidge, rewarded for her role in the series with a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award.
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The most acidic: Succession
If “tension” often rhymes with “family”, adding a “legacy” factor into the equation greatly multiplies the risk of drama. The proof with a textbook case: Succession.
When the patriarch (Brian Cox) of the rich and powerful Roy family suffers a stroke, his enfant terribles (Alan Ruck, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook) must consider his succession. But of course, each of them has their own plan to take over the family empire.
Like a game of Monopoly, the cards fall onto the board and the players move their pawn forward. Alliances, low blows and bluffs… All means are good to win. But is the game really worth it?
The hottest: House of the Dragon
Rest assured, family reunions that turn sour are nothing modern. To prove it to you, the Warner Pass invites you to travel through time and space to get an insight into the issue in medieval times with House of the Dragon.
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If it is again a question of heritage, it is a famous Iron Throne that is at stake, and with it the fate of an entire continent. Add to that incest, illegitimate children and some very angry dragons to put into perspective a good blow on the gift from your grandmother which is not to your taste. At least you won’t find yourself embroiled in a war of succession…
The most historical: The Gilded Age
Let’s continue our temporal journey with The Gilded Age and the exploration of the 19th century where, again, family drama was more than omnipresent.
When wealthy young Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) takes her first steps in 1880s New York, she is determined to fit into the most privileged social circles.
But very quickly, she comes up against reality and understands that money is not everything. And the rivalry that his nouveau riche family has with the Rhijn-Brook clan will not facilitate his integration…
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