Series: rain of stars in February


Stallone, Jesse Eisenberg, Orlando Bloom or Matthias Schoenaerts… So many regulars of the big screen to come and invite themselves to the platforms this month.





Through Benjamin Fau

Series: rain of stars in February

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Plittle game! What do you think a middle-aged New Yorker going through a divorce, a former Confederate soldier seeking revenge in the post-Civil War ruthless West, an old mobster as muscular as he is unsuited to contemporary society and a manipulative psychopath conquering the British upper class? Yes, you have won: these are the heroes of the series not to be missed in February.

Tulsa Kingseason 1

Expected since the launch of Paramount+ last December,Tulsa King is finally announced in France, and it’s really not too early. Why so impatient? Firstly because it is Sylvester Stallone’s first participation in a “television” series, which is moreover in an explosive first role. Then because Tulsa King is written and directed by two prestigious drama cadors, Taylor Sheridan (creator of the US phenomenon Yellowstone) and Terence Winter (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Vinyl). And finally, because his starting situation is rather desirable: on his release from prison after 25 years of detention, a very old school mafioso, not to say downright “boomer”, is sent to one of the most calm and peaceful cities from the United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma, with the mission of setting up a new criminal empire there. The very “fish out of water” humor of this confrontation of a former capo straight out of the 80s with a world of “millennials” who have advanced without him is unfortunately not free from small facilities, and we would have liked the series to take a little more risk and allow itself a little more madness, but Stallone is imperial through and through.

Starting Sunday, February 12 on Paramount+.

Anatomy of a Divorceminiseries

Toby Fleishman is New Yorker, he is 41 years old, a demanding job in a prestigious hospital, two children, and has just divorced from their mother, Rachel. When this one disappears overnight without giving any news, Toby does not really worry, he who has just registered on his first dating application… Adapted for the screen of a published bestseller in the United States in 2018, Fleishman is in troubleby its author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Anatomy of a Divorce is much better than its horrible French title. Despite a starting situation that could be that of a Woody Allen as much as that of a thriller by Harlan Coben, this dramatic comedy offers a reflection on the couple, their place in society, gender equality, the time that happening and the deep bonds of affection (or not) between beings. A very literary series, perhaps too much, of which we forgive certain lengths and a general lack of rhythm thanks to the charm and talent of its trio of actors, Jesse Eisenberg in the lead, wonderfully surrounded by virtuosos Claire Danes and Lizzy Caplan.

From Wednesday February 22 on Disney+.

Djangoseason 1

Quite a distant rewrite of the famous spaghetti western figure Djangoplayed in 1966 by Franco Nero in front of Sergio Corbucci’s camera, this Django in a big European TV co-production fashion borrows above all from its elders the figure of the solitary foreigner marked by destiny and traveling through the most sordid corners of the American West, sowing corpses on his way. This time, Django, a former Confederate soldier played by Matthias Schoenaerts, is looking for his daughter Sarah, as well as the man who massacred his family eight years earlier. He thus finds himself in New Babylon, a strange community halfway between the court of miracles and the giant brothel, attracting all the excluded and the left behind in the region, a new city itself threatened by purifying madness. and murderer of a mysterious “Mylady” (Noomi Rapace). Modern, ruthless and violent (we happily slaughter our throats on anachronistic Piaf), Django intends to bring up to date the tropes of a genre too little represented in modern series, despite Deadwood and a few others, and we are grateful to him.

From February 13 on Canal+.

Two returns : carnivalrow, season 2 and Youfirst part of season 4

Two series are finally offered a new chapter that deserves a look. For carnival rowthe fantastic series of Prime Video Led by Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, it will be a second and final season, starting Friday February 17. The opportunity to give a chance to this series, which went too unnoticed four years ago, in which supernatural creatures (fairies, centaurs, kobolds or werewolves) are forced to share with humans a society greatly reminiscent of Victorian England , with all the dramatic complications one can imagine.

As for Joe Goldberg, the attractive psychopathic murderer, voyeur and manipulator played by Penn Badgley in Youit is in London that he tries to rebuild his life, until his past catches up with him and he in turn finds himself the target of a mysterious stalker who murders wealthy young people from high society. If the first three seasons of You weren’t enough for you, this fourth installment opens on Thursday, February 9 on Netflix.




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