Each week, the DashFUN streaming team makes its selection of favorites with the news not to be missed. What made us vibrate, tremble, laugh, cry, jump? Here is our top 5 of the week.
Rick & Morty (Adult Swim)
Rick and Morty has returned this year for an all-new fifth season, now broadcast exclusively on Adult Swim. As crazy as ever, the animated series follows the adventures of Rick Sanchez, a mad scientist (and alcoholic) and his grandson Morty. Stuffed with references to pop culture (the series borrowing its concept from Back to the Future version trash), Rick and Morty has become essential for its irreverent and limitless tone.
Let’s say it straight away: lovers of fine and delicate humor, go your way. Because Rick and Morty is the opposite of that: as gory as it is vulgar, the series does not forbid anything and it is this tone to the end that has largely built its success. Between its more or less pointed references and its quirky tone, Rick and Morty has also welcomed many prestigious guests (in original version): Nathan Fillion, Sam Neill, Susan Sarandon and many others … CC
Adult Swim
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
After a detour into the world of series, with Top of the Lake, New Zealander Jane Campion returns with a new feature film – her first for 12 years – The Power of the Dog. It adapts the eponymous novel by Thomas Savage and offers a sensational trip to the heart of the American West, in Montana. The director tells the story of the rivalry between two opposing brothers, Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George (Jesse Plemons). When the latter marries Rose (Kirsten Dunst), a widowed mother, against the advice of her brother, a dangerous game will be born in the Burkank clan.
With The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion reinvents the western. It uses and reproduces the codes of the genre, while transgressing them. Through the character of Phil, superbly interpreted by Benedict Cumberbatch, she deconstructs the figure of the virile and brutal cowboy to oppose him to a young ephebe, more sensitive and delicate, embodied by Kodi Smit-McPhee. Never Manichean, the film – breathtakingly beautiful – studies the balance of power between its different protagonists and shows that the danger is not always where you think it is. TD
Palm Springs (Amazon Prime Video)
Posted at the beginning of the year on Prime Video, Palm Springs brilliantly reinvents the concept of time loop seen and reviewed. Avoiding the pale copy of One Endless Day, the dramedy by Andy Siara and directed by Max Barbakow brings together Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother) for an explosive journey. At a wedding in Palm Springs, Nyles and Sarah, two lost life prone to spleen meet and quickly realize that they are stuck in the space-time of this event.
Forced to relive the same day over and over again, the two souls in pain will do everything to get out of it and find this life they hated so much. This time loop will be an opportunity for Nyles and Sarah to take stock, calmly, and take the necessary distance from what was stuck in their existence. By playing with the codes of classic romantic comedy and revisiting the concept of the time loop, Palm Springs paints the portrait of a generation in full disillusionment and prone to depression. MC
Hulu
Schmigadoon! (Apple Tv +)
We take advantage of the cinema release of the remake of West Side Story by Steven Spielberg to give Schmigadoon a nice spotlight! , a musical series unfairly gone unnoticed this summer. Let it be said right away: it is aimed at true fans of the genre, those who appreciate productions where the heroes sing to ask for corn porridge or to express what they have on their hearts.
But what is it all about anyway? We follow a couple, Melissa (Cecily Strong) and Josh (Keegan-Michael Key), who find themselves on a backpacking journey meant to breathe new life into their relationship. They discover a magical city whose inhabitants all live in the studios of a 1940s musical. To leave this place, the two characters will have to find “true love”. Yes, the synopsis seems silly at first, but Schmigadoon! fundamentally tackles a resolutely modern subject that will appeal to everyone: how to relaunch a relationship that is running out of steam? How do we know if we’ve found the right person for us?
In just 6 episodes of 20 minutes each, Schmigadoon! brings in a myriad of actors we love such as the awesome Ariana DeBose (Anita in the new …
