Advantages of August: political information decreases considerably, which means that national tension also decreases; pay TV channels take the opportunity to broadcast again series that were probably already half forgotten, such as the tireless detective Vera, for example, which several platforms broadcast again, or The Midsomer Murders.
Of course, not everything is reruns, there are also premieres. HBO Max does so with Air Traffic, a British series created by Adam Randall in which Katherine Kelly, a kind of 21st-century mother courage, with permission from Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin, and the absolute protagonist of the plot, is a seasoned flight attendant who is forced to work for drug traffickers to save the life of her threatened and imprisoned son in a Bulgarian prison for a crime he never admitted to committing, and if the Brechtian mother takes advantage of human pain, the Randallian mother fosters it, but pain and children are always present.
And that is another advantage of series: that prisons in various countries become known, in this case, naturally, that the Bulgarian prison of Air Traffic is in Bulgaria and not on the outskirts of London. The British series highlights a relevant social problem such as drug trafficking and consumption, and does so without excessive dramatization, without dwelling on the sordid; the new French series, GIGN. Elite Unit (Netflix), on the other hand, addresses another major social problem: terrorism, with a protagonist, Tomer Sisley, known to series addicts as Balthazar, a forensic doctor who solved police problems and who has now been converted into a commander of French gendarmerie special forces with the ease offered by culture and the audiovisual industry.
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Of course, starring in series with a considerable popular acceptance does not always turn out positive for the actor’s career. Success can lead to a complex professional continuity, close to a premature end. Jim Parsons, the unforgettable Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, could be an exemplary case, as would be the protagonists of our Curro Jiménez. In short, less political tension to the misfortune of generalist television news or encyclopedic talk show hosts and happiness for viewers, with a fiction offer that, like lightning, does not cease.
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