Mini-series, short and perfect to start when you don’t have much free time, were great heroes of streaming platforms in 2023. From drama to crime, every viewer has a wide choice to find their ideal product. Wild streaming output can also be acceptable summer alternative for walks in the mountains and in the afternoon under an umbrella, on days when the rain does not allow you to actively spend time outdoors. Here, then what are the best miniseries of 2023 as well as Italian and international ones released in recent years that are worth rebuilding.
immodest look – Netflix (2023)
Original title of this ten-episode series: Olgar is immodest. The main character is Miranda (Deborah Nascimento). an experienced hacker with a dark past who spends his days spying on his neighbor Cleo (Emanuelle Araujo), an escort. When Cleo asks her to babysit the dog for the weekend she’ll be away from home, Miranda he finally enters the apartment he always looked at from afar and discovers a dark world full of family intrigues and shameful secrets.
Kaleidoscope – Netflix (2023)
Created by Eric Garcia and produced by Ridley Scott. Kaleidoscope crime series consisting of nine episodes. At the center of the event is the thief Leo Papa (Giancarlo Esposito) and his gang who want to commit a $7 billion heist. Each episode of the show is associated with a color and a specific moment in preparation for the coup (24 years before, 6 weeks before, etc.). A feature of the series is the opportunity offered to the viewer to view the episodes following the order you prefer. One Whitewhich is the final episode, it is advisable to watch at the end, otherwise even the official Netflix accounts offered a number of disparate combinations that allow you to enjoy the story without necessarily following the chronological order of the release.
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Daisy Jones and Six – Prime Video (2023)
Based on based on the novel of the same name (and bestseller The newspaper “New York Times) by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the format is about the rise to success of an imaginary 70s rock band. Riley Keough as Daisy Jones song’s author which cannot be penetrated. Instead, Sam Claflin plays Billy Dunn, the frontman of the rock band The Six, who struggles to balance his public and private life in the best possible way. When Daisy and Billy meet, they decide to work together and start a band. Daisy Jones & Six, destined to become the most famous. However, unexpectedly, the group breaks up: years later, the series also talks about the reasons for the breakup.
The English – Paramount+ (2023)
Written and directed by Hugo Bleek. English This is an epic western that intertwines romance, action and suspense. Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt) and Eli Whipp (Chusk Spencer), a former Pawnee cavalry scout. they meet in 1890 in Central America. The two are on a journey together to cross the continent: a woman is looking for someone she believes is responsible for her son’s murder and asks Eli Whipp to continue on with him. Between adventures, stories and mysteries these seemingly different characters will discover that they have a common thread that binds them more than they ever imagined.
Diplomat – Netflix (2023)
Among the revelations of the 2023 series are Diplomat for which the main character Keri Russell was especially appreciated, so get an Emmy nomination 2023 Russell as Kate Wyler, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, who has to deal with two very sensitive situations at the same time. The first concerns his work and is related to the Allied attack, the matrix of which is still unknown. At the same time, a woman must manage quite a stormy marriage and a husband, a former ambassador who doesn’t seem to know how to stay one step behind his life partner.
Full set – Disney+ (2023)
26 years after the movie Full set – won an Oscar for best soundtrack – a series of the same name was released, which tells how the life of the organized penniless” has changed a quarter of a century later. The protagonist is always Gaz (Robert Carlisle), still struggling with his life problems, not just economic ones. Around him, old friends are also waiting for change, melodrama and, of course, also some kind of comic situation. Compared to the original 1997 comedy, the series—due to the age of the main characters, among other things—has a pronounced bittersweet flavor.
Tell your friends about it – Riplay (2022)
Based on the novel of the same name by Sally Rooney. Tell your friends about it told in twelve episodes – 30 minutes each – complex relationships, love, friendship and fragility of four young heroes. Frances (Alison Oliver) and Bobbie (Sasha Lane) are best friends who have been romantically involved in the past. They meet Melissa (Jemima Kirn) and Nick (Joe Alwyn), a seemingly close-knit married couple. Passion and understanding flare up between Francis and Nick. upsets the balance between the four main characters and causes complications and uncertainty in the relationship that binds them.
Monterossi – Prime Video (2022)
Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Carlo Monterossi, a famous television writer who is attacked in his house by a gunman. Bye police are investigating what happened, the victim also begins a parallel and autonomous investigation to understand what is happening to his life. The six episodes that make up the series are taken from the novels. This Is not A Love Song AND Anger and wind Alessandro Robecchi. Welcome won the Flaiano Prize 2022 for its interpretation.
Observer – Netflix (2022)
Nora and Dean Brannock, played respectively by Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, move into their dream home with their two children. From the moment they arrive at their new home at 657 Boulevard in a small town in New Jersey, they start getting letters nasty. The mysterious watcher who has always watched over the house wants them to know he won’t leave them as long as they live there. The seven-episode series is free. inspired by a news story in which a married couple participated in 2014. The two bought a 1905 colonial home for almost $1.4 million, but were forced to move elsewhere because they were scared off by constant disturbing letters.
Inventing Anna – Netflix (2022)
Also Inventing Anna – mini-series in 9 episodes directed by Sean Rhimes – based on a true story. Anna Delvey (played by Julia Garner) is a socialite who moves to New York and introduces herself as important heiress German. For years, the young woman manages to fool the Big Apple elite and almost fulfill her dream: to create the Anna Delvey Foundation to subsidize young artists. However, her castle crumbles when she is discovered: her real name is Anna Sorokina. he does not own trust funds multi millionaire. Journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) investigates his case.
Echo – Netflix (2022)
Michelle Monaghan plays a dual role in this seven-episode thriller miniseries. In fact, the actress plays the role of identical twins Leni and Gina. Two women lead completely opposite existences and every year on their birthday, they get together to celebrate away from everything and everyone and exchange personalities. In fact, every 365 days, the two sisters take turns living each other’s lives, and this eventually led them to share two men – their husbands – and a daughter. However, things get complicated when one of the twins goes missing.
The Woman in the House Faces the Girl in the Window – Netflix (2022)
Kisten Bell, best known for her role as teen detective Veronica Mars, plays Anna in this eight-episode comedy thriller. The death of her only daughter destroyed her marriage and now she lives in a townhouse. spends his days looking out the window and drinking wine. Just one evening at home, she becomes a witness to what, in her opinion, is a murder. The victim is Lisa (Shelley Hennig), a friend of her neighbor Neil (Tom Riley), whom Anna is deeply attracted to. However, his addiction to alcohol make the testimony unreliable and Anna will be forced to investigate what happened on her own.
Nine Perfect Strangers – Prime Video (2021)
Nicole Kidman as Masha Dmitrichenko, founder of the Tranquillum House resort. Here nine strangers meet to try, each in their own way get over some trauma which upset them throughout their lives. However, despite the name it bears and the discretion of the staff, Tranquillum seems to be an increasingly unsettling place every day, where not everything is as it seems at first glance. Eight episodes Nine Perfect Strangers they can count on star cast which, in addition to Kidman, also features Bobby Cannavale and Melissa McCarthy.
Mental – RaiPlay (2020)
What happens to four children who meet in a psychiatric center? That’s what he’s trying to say mentaloriginal Italian RaiPlay mini-series produced exclusively for the platform streaming and live performance by Michele Vannucci. The main characters are Nico, Michelle, Emma and Daniel, who, in the midst of adolescence, have to go through a deep path of self-acceptance, trying to understand and overcome the strong moments of the crisis and complex diagnoses that accompany their existence.
Chernobyl – NowTV (2019)
Miniseries Chernobyl it was released in 2019 in five episodes. Created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck for HBO and Sky Atlantic, it is still available on NowTv. The show is engaged consequences of the Chernobyl disaster which took place in Soviet Ukraine in 1986 and follows the stories of some citizens who lived through the tragedy first hand and tried by all means to save Europe from a nuclear catastrophe. The series is based on the free to messages from residents Pripyat, collected by the Nobel laureate writer Svetlana Aleksievich in her book Prayer for Chernobyl and in writing Chernobyl 01:23:40 Andrew Leatherbarrow.