Tips from 6 Max series that I love

HBO Max has morphed into MAX, but for me, the appeal has nothing to do with football or Discovery content. What I really like are the HBO/Warner series. So, if you’re like me, here are 6 series tips that I love and that are available on the service.

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Big Little Lies – 2 seasons

Inspired by Liane Moriarty’s best-selling book, Big Little Lies It has moments of dramatic comedy, others really dark ones, as well as an engaging police story. It tells the story of three mothers of elementary school students, Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste (Nicole Kidman) and Jane (Shailene Woodley) whose seemingly perfect lives end up involved in a murder. But little is known about this, about who the killer is and even who was murdered. What we know is that it all starts with an argument between mothers, when Renata’s daughter (Laura Dern) accuses Jane’s son of having hit her daughter. Detail: they are both around seven years old.

Furthermore, several problems in the apparently perfect lives of these women appear, which could provide clues to who is involved in the death that is being investigated by the police in the present while we begin to learn about the facts of the past. The second season is also good, but not as good as the first, and it has Meryl Streep. A third would be under development.

Lovecraft Country – 1 season

Over the course of 10 episodes, Lovecraft Country will tell the story of Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors), who, in the company of his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance), sets out in search of his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams) . The trip triggers a struggle for survival and overcoming. This is because the trio will find themselves facing both the segregationist racial terror of the United States in the 1950s, and the frightening monsters that appear in the story. Producing JJ Abrams and Jordan Peele, as well as Misha Green.

The Dragon’s House – 1 season

The second season premieres in June this year. The first covers the history of the Targaryens – and takes place 200 years before Daenerys tried to regain the Iron Throne, as we saw in Game of Thrones. It all begins with the story of King Viserys, who, without an heir, announces that his daughter Rhaenyra will assume the throne after her death. But there are all the behind-the-scenes situations, the search for power, which become even stronger after the king’s new marriage, who ends up having two sons. And this will provoke a dispute between half-siblings Aegon II and Rhaenyra. As described in Game of Thrones, at the time when the Targaryen family dominated the 7 kingdoms, the house was known for its imposing dragons. And that, like the family, they ended up practically extinct after this internal conflict that we only started to see in this first season.

And just like that – 2 seasons

The third season has already started filming. I believe I am one of the people who likes first season of And Just Like That. It made me laugh and cry (I still can’t come to terms with Big’s death). But I believe that the saddest aspect of the series provided an efficient counterpoint to demonstrate that life changes, that there are losses (personal and professional) that happen as you get older. After this first necessary moment, the second season is lighter, and even features special appearances by John Corbett and Kim Cattrall.

The Flight Attendant – 2 seasons

Kaley Cuoco is Cassandra Bowden, a flight attendant. Cassie, as everyone calls her, wakes up hungover in a hotel room in Thailand. And, worse, with a dead body lying next to her. But Cassie doesn’t remember anything that happened, and she’s afraid to call the police. She then runs away and starts living her day as if nothing had happened. She joins her co-workers and heads back to New York. There she is met by FBI agents. That’s when she decides to start investigating everything on her own. The first season is great, the second, so-so.

Chernobyl – 1 season

The story of the series begins on the day of the explosion at the Chernobyl plant. And it takes those watching through the corridors of the plant as if it were a horror film. But you know that it’s not a monster or a ghost that could appear at any moment. It’s something much more terrible. We then follow the struggle of Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), a chemist who really existed, to prove to the bunch of disgusting politicians from the communist party that things were disastrous. At his side is party member Borys Shcherbyna (Stellan Skarsgard), who is assigned to accompany Legasov to Chernobyl to find out what really happened. He is also a real figure. Of the three main characters, only Ulyana Khomyuk (Emily Watson), a physicist who tries to help prove what is to come, did not actually exist.

The screenwriters argue that she is the personification of a series of scientists who were present at that moment in history. All of this told with stupendous art direction and great interpretations. It’s really worth knowing – I suggest you do so.