To stream international television series now: “The Leopard”, “Newtopia” and more

The relationships between the United States to the other nations in the world are currently fluid, but one thing is certain: we always import their television programs again and again. Here are some recent additions to an increasingly large retail weight, at least when it comes to script series.

“Dog days outwards”

With “Bluey” on a break, this cheerfully fascinating South Korean cartoon-es is like a crackerjack action blockbuster for toddler-das vacuum of the animated dolls. You may even consider the lack of hyperarticulating dialogue as an advantage: a soundtrack has something calm that consists of strokes, crashes and a variety of dog screws and laughter.

In an idyllic suburban Sackgasse, which is rendered in candy-colored 3-D animation, the puppies come to play when their hardly seen masters are everything and destroy everything their paws can get. If you join you in slapstick chaos, your toy, including a chewing doll with rainbow, is a large part of the difficulties. Against them are short birds and clever rodents. Many shows for preschool children have the same type of non -stop campaign, but the animators in the South Korean Studio -Million Volt carry them out with a combination of fluid style and contagious spirit that can hang the inattentive adult. (Netflix)

“Douglas is canceled”

Steven Moffat from “Sherlock” and “Doctor Who” wrote this dark four-episode comedy, which consciously or not a bait and a switch. With Hugh Bonneville as a Douglas, a popular broadcaster that was accused of telling a sexist joke, it begins as a brittle farce about the comfortable title that can testify against cultural and social media mobs. But then it shifts and sometimes becomes didactic and not convincing, sometimes powerful and worrying, examines the corrosive treatment of women of women.

Moffat, who can be a very clever writer, takes the male repertoire of the gas lights, stone wall and wear aggression and turns them into an amusing way in its history. However, it is also noticeable how the goals of the pointed satire tends to be young women and how the best roles for middle -aged men are written. Karen Gillan as Douglas’ on-Air partner and Alex Kingston as his wife are fine in quite monochromatic parts. But the spotlight is in Bonneville, which is excellent as always. Simon Russell Beale, who like Douglas’ difficult agent from Douglas is funny; And Ben Miles, who chills as an absolutely cynical producer. (Britbox)

“The East Gate”

This low-fi-polish spy rama, which plays in 2021, is very different from the spy throwns to which the American audience is used to. The Polish agents who are the protagonists of the show are married and tired, stepped back with outsiders because they confront the raw power of Russia and the ruthlessness of the Russian partner state Belarus. An American general may appear to give a speech about the cooperation, but the Poles are clearly aware that they are themselves (a fictional dilemma that became all the more moving due to the recent events of the real world).

Lena Gora is great like Ewa, an agent that is wise and good in a fight, but the most important forces are ingenuity and a determination that is more likely to be registered as grim. The point of dispute in the first season (which ends on Friday) is the Suwalki gap, a strip of Polish territory that is bordered on the Belarus, which would be of crucial importance in a confrontation between Russia and NATO. In the middle of reports on Russian mobilization, EWA is sent to find a mole in the Polish embassy in Belarus. The disappearance, torture sessions, rescues and threats to family members in the last second are well-known elements, but they feel fresh and authentic, a different rhythm and follow different indications than those of slicker, more demanding espionage shows. (Max)

“The Leopard”

This six -part series, which was premiered on Wednesday, a British and Italian production, cannot help to see in the shadow of one of the greatest historical dramas ever made: Luchino Visconti’s three -hour film from the same title from 1963. Title role in the title role in the title. Seasoning, hourly final scene that plays on a ball, forces itself to consciousness.

So if you have seen and loved the film, you may want to pass on this somewhat monotonous but perfectly inappropriate Italian -speaking series. This could also be the case if you have read the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa on which both are based; In the second half of the action of the show, the book of the book deviates in some predictably melodramatic way. On the other hand, if you are a fan of conventional, well-equipped costume dramas that have been made with a certain degree of finesse and intelligence and with the kinematography of picture postcards-is to look at the series very nicely-and then you have it. Just do not expect any poetry that has suffered this story in the past. (Netflix)

“Newtopia”

The enthusiasm of the South Korean entertainment industry for zombies and how it could be associated with declarations of war law and ultralow fertility rates is probably a doctorate. Thesis at that moment. One of the jokes in this latest iteration, one of Han Jin-Won (who is written by Han Jin-Won (the Oscar practice with the Oscar winner “parasite script with Bong Joon Ho) and Ji Ho-Jin (” A Shop for Murderer “), that the people in Seoul are actually surprised to see the insecent runs through the streets.

The outbreak of the meat, which is initially unclear (the sixth episode of the series arrives on Friday), is the frame for a romantic search in which the soldier Jae-Yoon (Park Jeong-Min) and his girlfriend Young-Ju (the pop star Jisoo von Blackpink) fight through bloody chaos. But the engine for a large part of the humor in this consistently amusing show is Jae-Yoons situation: it is part of an anti-aircraft unit on the roof of a high-rise hotel, in which the bored soldiers usually spend their time to mess up rocket exercises and sneak into the hotel kitchen to find snacks. They are a comic perspective on the unit that is lost in the jungle or on a lonely island, except that the burning question here is when the immediate pasta run out. (Amazon Prime Video)

“Zenshu”

A young animator with a young, monthly animator who is blatantly blocked in her next project eats a bad shell and apparently dies. She wakes up in the world of an anime who owned her as a child and inspired her career; It is even better that she now has magical drawing forces with which she can help her heroic heroic hero from childhood defeat her huge faulty enemies. But every time she uses her, she pushes the story that she continues to remember from his route.

“Zenshu”, whose senior director (Mitue Yamazaki) and writer (Kimiko Ueno) are women, is a funny, good looking example of the anime’s Iskai subscription (protagonist watches in a strange world) with a little more. The operations are more real and the dynamics are less childish than usual. In nine out of twelve episodes, the heroine Natsuko from malicious Grouch exceeded the curious explorer and love interest. And the allegory of anime process and power is casual, but it is clear: it is exciting to save the day even at the last minute (in the deadline), but Natsuko has to learn teamwork if it is either successful on the battlefield or in the animation studio. (Crunchyroll)