With the heat records on most of the territory, you can often find yourself in the shade looking for series to discover among the marvelous Netflix catalog or the no less interesting one Canal+ and its myCanal platform. Do not panic: the editorial staff of CNET France has unearthed three nuggets for you to start and follow at your own pace this weekend!
The series that we recommend to you this weekend are: Sense8, Bad Exorcist et Dead Still.
What series to watch this weekend on Netflix and Canal+?
An epic series across the wide world: Sense8 (Netflix)
Synopsis
Eight individuals scattered across the four corners of the world find themselves connected to each other by a sudden and violent vision. Nomi, Will, Riley, Capheus, Sun, Lito, Kala and Wolfgang now share their intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences, and are even able to intervene in their respective realities. Powers that interest many misguided people, including a mysterious organization with dark designs.
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Started just after the success of House of Cards et Orange Is the New Black, Sense8 remains one of the most ambitious and expensive projects in Netflix history to date. A science fiction series intended to answer the question “what connects us as humans?” with the greatest candor. creators of the universe Matrix, V For Vendettaor Speed RacerLilly and Lana Wachowski, have enlisted the services of a recognized and influential comic book and TV series author, J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5).
Filmed entirely on location across 8 cities, Sense8 is a world series, overflowing with generosity, where eight characters that everything separates will have to unite to defeat nebulous adversaries who wish to take advantage of their powers. With eight main characters, the series jumps from genre to genre, from reality to reality: from thrillers and Mexican vaudeville to cyberthriller and Hindi romance, Sense8 builds its identity on the intentions of its broadcaster, Netflix, to reach and unite as many audiences as possible around the world.
Driven by the dynamics of its eight young actors, most unknown to the public (with the exception of Tuppence Middleton and Doona Bae, already seen at the Wachowskis before), Sense8 pushes the limits of a globalized series by setting up its cameras during Pride in San Francisco or in Nairobi, Kenya.
If the episodes can often seem too long and tortuous at more than 60 minutes, the series gains in energy and positivity as the “cluster” (a kind of super-brain) learns to tame its integration and the interventions of each of its members in the lives of others. Like many of the Wachowskis’ works, however, it is recommended to an informed audience, because of its outbursts of violence and its orgy scenes which made headlines.
- Watch a preview of Season 1:
A crazy animated series: Bad Exorcist (Netflix)
Synopsis
No demon is safe against Bogdan Boner. The self-taught exorcist worn on the bottle returns with even more inventive, lewd and deadly acts.
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The global success of South Park for 25 years has inspired many creators around the world to create their own irreverent and decaying universe. This is the case of Bartosz Walaszek, a Pole who created the character of Bogdan Boner a few years ago, a big-caliber mustachioed biker who has nothing to envy to one of the comic book characters. Joe Bar Team.
After a first broadcast of a web series around the character on YouTube, Netflix, still relatively little present in Poland, ordered two seasons of Bad Exorcist. Bogdan is thus flanked by a somewhat cowardly demon, Domino, and a young delinquent, Marcinek, to set up his TPE of exorcism and eradication of evil forces on demand.
Let’s be honest: Bogdan is not the most competent nor the smartest of exorcists, and just like many episodes of South Park, the bloodbaths of each episode nearly annihilate the team of broken arms dispatched to the scene. This antihero uses exorcism as a trick, and he almost misses being overtaken by events, which his nemesis, Natan, a professional and efficient blond exorcist reminds him of.
As long as one is seduced by the very craspec and artisanal aspect of the characters, Bad Exorcist turns out to be a slightly more dexterous and heartfelt trashy humor booster shot than some other Netflix animated productions, like the American Farzar Also out this summer.
- Discover the not very fine team of Bogdan through the trailer:
A macabre period detective series: Dead Still (Canal+)
Synopsis
Dublin, 1880. Famous post-mortem portrait photographer Block Bennerhasset tries to revive his business with the help of his niece Vicky Vickers and her new assistant. It is then that the upsurge of bodies that make up their clientele leads them to investigate the existence of a possible serial killer.
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Difficult to summarize Dead Stilla curious proposal broadcast on the Irish channel RTE, in co-production with Canadians and Acorn TV, a channel specializing in detective series.
It is worn by Michael Smiley, a supporting role who has dragged his bump through films and series, including Luther (as Benny Silver) and Bloodlands (broadcast on Canal + last year), who here embodies a fussy professional who offers to immortalize deceased people by giving them a semblance of life, through post-mortem photos surrounded by their loved ones. A fringe practice that gives the series creators the opportunity to give Block a host of professional problems and frustrations, from an obsessive husband to a disturbing couple in a remote house in Ireland, whose child has just died. .
Block hangs out with a Dublin inspector very interested in his activities, particularly in the discipline of forensic medicine, Frederick Regan (Aidan O’Hare). This will gradually bring to light a series of murders immortalized in photos, and Block is the first suspect; but this seasonal arc is set back in favor of customers of the week. Dead Still especially privileges the conflictual relations between Block and his two employees: his own niece Vicky, and an awkward funeral director who offers his services as an assistant, fascinated by the activity of the company.
It is not a thriller in the first sense of the term, nor a dramatic comedy in the Six Feet Under, but an unexpected exploration of a small business that consorts with Victorian high society of the time, while being cordially despised. But it is undoubtedly one of the most original proposals of the genre in recent years, served by a beautiful interpretation.
- Enter the curious universe of Dead Still with the trailer:
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