‘queer’ phenomenon of the year after the return of Marco Bellocchio

Creator: Jacob Tierney
interpreters: Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie
Product time: Crave, Accent Aigu Entertainment, Canada Media Fund, Bell Media, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund.
Country: Canada
Anus: 2025
Platform: Movistar Plus+
Out of time: February 5th

When Crave launched the series, I started viewership increased 400% in the first week of airing.: something is moving in Canada. HBO Max realized that what was happening in the country could be reproduced in the United States and bought episodes of the series. From that moment on, the phenomenon was unstoppable until two complete unknowns like Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie became stars in just one month.

But what is it that makes this romance between elite hockey players in the sky so appealing? We are before anything, before aspirational fiction that seeks to recreate entertainment for the general public from a different angle. Its creator Jacob Tierney demonstrates an undeniable mastery of classic genres (romantic drama, sports epic, rom-com) and an amazing ability to enjoy them from the editing table.

More than rivals nos habla de what conditions must be given so that an elite athlete can enter the armory. And he does it by looking at his fears – the misfortune of falling into disgrace in front of public opinion, the loss of patronage, the rejection of his family, the homophobia of deportation or the absence of references – while telling the story of adamant fathers, understanding women, compromised friends and men (guapísimos) and valientes.

El Salvador

Salvador (Luis Tosar) is an ambulance conductor. But it was not always his profession. Antes was a doctor. Alcoholism and gambling were of no use to his title and contributed to the loss of his family. Regarding the woman, and the fallecida, I left him and took advice from both of them. That little girl’s name was Milena (Candela Arestegui), now another of the neo-Nazi band’s cachorros.

Una noche en la que el Real Madrid se enfrenta al Olympique de Marsella los disturbios entre ambas hinchadas incendian los alrededores del estadio Santiago Bernabéu. Salvador y Milena se encontrarán de nuevo esa noche, y el padre, tratando de salvar a su hija —y de salvarse a sí mismo— se adentrará en una espiral de violencia y desesperación que le llevará a acercarse demasiado a la banda criminal de ultraderecha y a los intereses que la sostienen.

El director Daniel Calparsoro le imprime su sello a esta miniserie que prefiere la adrenalina a la coherencia, prolija en persecuciones vertiginosas y batallas campales, pero roma en su diseño de personajes; más preocupada por su sentido del espectáculo que por hilvanar un discurso sobre las peliagudas cuestiones que aborda.

Destacan characters (and actions) embodied by Leonor Watling and Claudia Salas, undoubtedly the greatest ensembles a miniseries that could be seen as a complete mix Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979) y Black litter (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, 1977)As George C. Scott, I wanted to save his daughter María Luisa Ponte’s friend.

Portobello

Trans la excellente Outer night (2023), where veteran filmmaker Marco Bellocchio turns to reenacting the case of Aldo Moro (Fabrizio Gifuni), The Italian director returns to the terrain of the fictional series and finds a new reality.

This time he investigates an episode that was both horrifying and extravagant Recent History of Italy. Enzo Tortora (Fabrizio Gifuni) was the host of a popular TV magazine Portobellothe most varied program to be seen in the transalpine country from the end of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s.

The driver is involved in court proceedings a member of the New Organized Camorra, Giovanni Pandico (Lino Musella), confirmed that Tortora was part of the organization directed by the formidable Raffaele Cutolo, known as “The Professor”, a character that director Giuseppe Tornatore dedicated to the miniseries released last year, even though it was released in 1983.

Bellocchio metabolises the work of the guides of Stefano Bises (Gomorrah), Peppe Fiore (No matarás) and Giordana Mari (Love) y back to Gifuni’s masterful performancethis counterpoint to Lino Musella’s least admirable interpretation to accommodate a baroque portrait of the least admirable part of his country’s history.

How did you know that? Traitor (2019), Company Director Hands in bags (1976) reflects on questions such as the power of representation, the meaning of the projected image or the value of television as a vertebral element of society. Basic.