DN-tips: Best TV series and movies to stream right now
« Mountainhead »
Max, 31/5. Script and director: Jesse Armstrong. With: Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, Jason Schwartzman and others. 1 hour and 49 min.
After the thunderstorm with the long-term « success », Jesse Armstrong is back with a syllable satire about four rocky and power-horny techplutocrats who meet for a muscular weekend in a luxury lodge in Utah’s mountain world. While the world outside collapses outside the bubble-due to an AI app that spreads perfect fake video clips-their conspiratorial dreams of world domination are awakened. Rigged for a character -driven chamber game that is uncomfortably entertaining even though the laughter eventually gets almost stuck in the throat.
« Dept q »
Max. Series creator: Scott Frank. With: Matthew Goode, Alexej Manvelov, Kelly MacDonald, Mark Bonnar and others. 9 section x about 60 min.
A kind of crime’s response to « slow horses »-so one could describe this habit-forming and exciting series that stands out with its syllable dialogue that is delivered in the pure screwball style. The focus is on a varied crowd of police officers, banished to the Edinburgh police’s murky basement to root in cold cases that no one cares anymore. But just like the MI5 spies in the slough house, they will soon end up in the middle of the hot air. The publisher is Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Danish Scandi-Noir-Ducker, previously filmed for Danish TV. In this British interpretation, Matthew good plays the emotionally suspended star investigator Carl Mørck, while Swedish Alexej Manvelov (« Before We Die », « Top Dog ») impress in the role of his Syrian assistant. From the screenwriter behind « The Queen’s Gambit ».
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« Queen of Fucking Everything »
SVT Play. Series creator: Tiina Lymi and others. With: Laura Malmivaara, Katja Küttner, Minna Haapkylää, Kari Heiskanen and others. 6 section x 55 min.
A sea-sided and absurdist Finnish crime comedy with « Breaking Bad » vibes that revolve around Linda (Laura Malmivaara). She is a luxury -loving, unscrupulous broker who loses everything when her husband goes up in smoke and leaves her with multi -million debt. To save her social facade, she begins to steal and is quickly drawn into foam shops in Helsinki’s lower world where she becomes, yes, « queen of fuck everything ». A booky and messy Finnish TV success that gathered a million audience at home.
« The Better Sister »
Prime video, 29/5. Series creator: Olivia Milch and others. With: Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, Corey Stoll, and others. 8 section x min.
Siblings rivalry, family secrets and loyalty are tested in this psychological drama thriller after Alafair Burke’s novel. Chloe (Jessica Biel) lives a seemingly perfect life with her husband Adam (Corey Stoll) and stepson – until Adam is murdered brutally. When Ethan is suspected, Chloe is forced to reunite with his sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) to find the truth by digging together in a sore and dark past.
« And just like that 3 »
Max, 30/5. Series creator: Darren Starr and others. With: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker and others. 12 sections x 40 min.
« Eternally changing but always Carrie, » says Sarah Jessica Parker about her iconic character for the third round of this spin-off series at « Sex and the City ». Carrie Bradshaw is back – with laptop, party bladder and rat panic – and writes on her first novel while again reuniting with exet Aidan. Bed for glamorous chaos when Carrie is to balance both soaring heels and emotional life. Maybe more like a dear reunion than innovative TV art.
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« Rebound 1 and 2 »
SVT Play. Series creator: Melike Leblebicioglu Kaveh. With: Mathilde Thomine Storm, Björn Mosten, Arjan Nilsen, Maria Wiik, Julie Grønning Rognmo and others. A total of 20 sections x 4 -15 min.
An intimate and naked Norwegian youth drama in « Skam » style with short sections that have become a viewing success at home. The action revolves around the young Alex (Mathilde Thomine Storm) who returns home from Bali – just to be dumped by her boyfriend. The rest of the series takes place in her old girl room where she tries to handle her heartache by acquiring a temporary transitional relationship (rebound) to move on. Among the guardians are the cocky Swedish charm knot Lucas (Björn Mosten from « Love and Anarchy »).
« Bono: Stories of Surrender »
Apple TV+, 30/5. Directed by: Andrew Dominik. With: Bono, Gemma Doherty, Kate Ellis and others. 1 hour and 26 min.
« I play ordinary, » could be an alternative title on this peeled documentary where Bono leaves the world of Arena rock for an intimate and naked one -man show where personally tells about his childhood in Dublin, his mother’s death and the relationship with her father. His vulnerable and humorous personal stories are taken from autobiography and are interspersed with performances by U2’s biggest songs. The documentary is directed by Andrew Dominik who made the Nick Cave films « This Much I Know to Be True » (2022) and « Nick Cave. One more time with feeling » (2016).
« The girl with the needle »
SF Anytime and others. Director: Magnus von Horn. With: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder and others. 2 hours and 3 min.
Impressive psychological horror film about exclusion with a black and white photo that was inspired by, among other things, the expressionism of the 20th century. A distorted true-crime nightmare revolves around Denmark’s infamous Angel Dagmar Overby (Trine Dyrholm). The film follows the factory worker Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), who is withdrawn in Dagmar’s dark world after a failed abortion attempt. Magnus von Horn’s film competed for the Gold Palm and became Denmark’s Oscar grant.
« September 5 »
SF Anytime, and others. Directed by: Tim Fehlbaum. With: Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, Georgina Deist, Leonie Benesch and others. 1 hour and 35 min.
Nervous dramatization of hostage drama during the Munich Olympics 1972 from the point of view of the American journalists. The TV company ABC’s smoked control room is at the center of this stylish and Murvel-romantic 70s drama that depicts how sports reporters are suddenly forced to saddle to news journalists when a Palestinian terrorist group attacked the Israeli Olympic squad: “A chamber game that divides the US Patosfruit Power to the sham, ”wrote DN’s Fredrik Sahlin.
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« Under the sidewalk – the beach »
SVT Play, 1/6. Director: Henrik Hellström. With: Torsten Rönnerstrand, Björn Rönnerstrand, Ulf Rönnerstrand. 1 hour and 16 min.
Henrik Hellström follows up peculiar « one thinks » with a surreal, poetic and civilization -critical film about breaking away from the digital forced sweater. The film depicts an aged academic and his sons in a final « late capitalist autumn adventure », where they stag existential role play. The result is a « playful film that is freer than the wind over Halland’s most beautiful beach », which DN’s Helena Lindblad wrote in her positive review.
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« The Handmaiden » (2016)
SVT Play, directed: Park Chan-Wook. With: Kim min-hee, have Jung-Woo, Cho Jin-Woong and others. 2 hours and 25 min.
An ill-fated Korean girl nests in with a stone-rich Japanese heir in the 1930s Korea. It is bedded for a staggering intersection of romantic love story and kinky erotic thriller. An ironic and playful meto version of Sarah Water’s novel « The pocket thief » that takes place in Victorian England. From the same South Korean star director who has given the world’s top films such as « Old Boy. Revenge », « Lady Vengeance » and « Decision to leave ».
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This week’s classic:
« Last year in Marienbad » (1961)
SVT Play, 30/5. Directed by: Alain Resnais. With: Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin and others. 1 hour and 43 min.
Time, memory and subjectivity are some of the main ingredients in this mysterious and style -forming classic by French star director Alain Resnais. The action takes place in a pompous old luxury hotel where a stranger (Giorgio Albertazzi) tries to convince a married woman (Delphine Seyrig) to flee with him and claims that the years have previously had a romance in the Czech spa resort of Marienbad. The problem is that she has no memories of this.
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