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- November 5, 2024
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2024 enters its final stretch: there are only two months left to start 2025. However, that does not mean that streaming signals do not have important series premieres in store for the coming weeks. And so as not to miss any of those releases, below is a review of the most promising titles that will arrive on the main platforms during November.
Based on the novel of the same name by Laura Esquivel (which already had a movie in 1992), Like water for chocolate arrives as a six-episode miniseries. Here the story revolves around a moving romantic saga, which has the Mexican Revolution as a background landscape. The protagonist is Tita (Guaita Blue), a young woman who, as the youngest daughter of the family, must follow the tradition of renouncing love to dedicate herself to taking care of her mother in her old age. But everything changes when she meets Pedro (Andres Baida), for whom she feels a deep love that she will not be able to live freely, due to the family mandates that imprison her.
Tita’s feelings will lead her to rethink her life, and put in crisis a tradition that becomes an anchor. Her refuge will then be her other great love, cooking. Through all kinds of recipes, Tita will be able to express all the emotions that go through her, and meals will become a way of peeking into the soul of this woman. Like water for chocolate is produced by Salma Hayek and the cast completes it Ana Valeria Becerril, Andrea Chaparro, Ángeles Cruz y Mauricio García Lozano.
Now available at MAX
On December 30, 2004, a fire that occurred at the República de Cromañón venue during a Callejeros recital caused the death of 194 people and left physical and psychological scars on many of the survivors. It was one of the greatest tragedies that occurred in the City of Buenos Aires, and its consequences marked several generations of Argentines, beyond the notorious political and police ramifications of the case. Twenty years after that event, the series Cro-Magnon reconstructs that painful moment from the perspective of a group of teenagers who attended that fateful recital.
Malena (Olivia Neuss) is a young woman who, after surviving Cro-Magnon, four years later, decides to return to the place to heal the deep emotional wounds that have accompanied her since that day, and the guilt that comes with having lived after seeing many of her friends die. The miniseries has scripts by Josefina Licitra, Pablo Plotkin y Martin Vatenbergand the cast includes José Giménez Zapiola, Soledad Villamil, Luis Machín, Paola Barrientos, Esteban Lamothe, Dani La Chepi y Muriel Santa Anaamong many others.
Available from Friday the 8th on Prime Video
A couple faces the tough challenge of raising awareness in their small community when their son, León, is kicked out of his school after being diagnosed as autistic. The nine-year-old boy then loses his place of belonging, and his father and mother will not lower their arms in the search to reverse this institutional injustice, as both find themselves facing the indifference of those around them. a lion in the forest is an eight-episode series produced by Martin Kwellerwhich had the advice of a team specialized in ASD, in order to give truth to this story. This production has prestigious Argentine performers such as Federico D´Elía, Julieta Cardinali, Valentina Bassi, Raúl Rizzo, María Leal, Carolina Kopelioff, Julián Cerati y Lucio Elie.
Available from Thursday the 14th, on the FLOW screen
Taylor Sheridanone of the most important screenwriters today and creator of Yellowstone, Tulsa King y Lioness –all available on the platform– has its new title ready. It is about Landmana drama starring Billy Bob Thorntonwhose axis is the world of oil wells. The aforementioned actor plays Tommy Norris, a key player in the network of businesses linked to black gold, where ambitious plans are woven by businessmen, in many cases, lacking scruples. In this context that takes place in west Texas, Norris will witness and participate in constant changes, in a millionaire sector capable of modifying the political and financial course of a country.
Sheridan took on the popular podcast Boomtownand turned it into a ten-episode fiction in which he can return to his interest in stories focused on great family sagas, anchored in imposing business worlds. Along with Billy Bob Thornton is a luxury cast that completes Jon Hamm, Demi Moore, Michael Peña y Andy García.
Premieres on Sunday the 17th on Paramount+
The two films of there directed by Dennis Villeneuve They put the ambitious world created by Frank Herbertcomposed of numerous novels. And determined to take advantage of the public’s interest in that franchise, Max This month a miniseries premieres that takes place in that universe, and that expands the limits of that story, focusing on one of the most interesting actors in Duna: the Bene Gesserit community. Here the plot is set ten thousand years before the events narrated in the films, and the protagonists are the sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen, who must fight against dark forces that seek to destroy the future of humanity. This clash will be key in the birth of the sect made up of women with paranormal powers and galactic ambitions who will have a very important role in the future of the universe of there. The series is based on the novel Sisterhood of Dunewritten by Brian Herbert, son of Frank, and Kevin J. Andersonand the cast has Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Mark Strong y Sarah-Sofie Boussnina.
Available in Max starting Sunday the 17th
The producer Taika Waititi (director of Thor: Ragnarok y Thor: love and thunder) directs the first episode of this miniseries focused on the adventures of Willis Wu (Jimmy Yang), an aspiring actor who in his free time works as a restaurant waiter. Wu’s life has no major upheavals until he witnesses a crime that takes place in Chinatown, which leads him to discover a criminal world in which he will encounter all kinds of criminals. In this way, the protagonist will be at the center of an unexpected police plot, which will lead him to live a mission of great and unexpected dangers. Mystery in Chinatown is a fun police fiction, made up of ten episodes.
Premieres on Tuesday the 19th on Disney+
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