Everyone who lived through the 80s can’t help but feel nostalgic for it, and those who weren’t even born during the period grew up in its myth, fueled by pop culture.
Even the serial world drew vitality from the busiest decade of the last century, and so if you want to immerse yourself in it, you can dedicate yourself to a summer binge with a few titles that we decided to recommend.
These are series that you already partially know, but there are others that you may have missed.
Stories of female power
The 1980s gave rise to aerobics and its stars, who inspired an entire generation of women (both housewives and workers) with their programs and videotapes. It is this world that inspires him physicaldark comedy series created by Annie Weissman and starring Rose Byrne (also contributing as producer), whose third and final season is available on Apple TV+ from August 2. Set in San Diego, it follows Sheila Rubin’s transformation from a restless and disgruntled housewife to a successful fitness entrepreneur. In the cast, we also find Rory Scovel, Dierdre Friel and Paul Sparks, who has now been added as a new Zooey Deschanel entry.
In the 1980s, women also turned out to be muscular and flamboyant wrestling stars, as he reminds us. Shinefavorite series by number Netflix, which was unfortunately canceled after three seasons (despite fan protests). However, we advise you to restore it or see it again, because you can’t help but love this team of girls who clash in the ring in their eccentric costumes, led by Ruth (played by Alison Brie) and Debbie (Betty Gilpin). former actresses and rivals (even in life).
Teenagers of the eighties
Obviously, we can’t help but talk about the series that made us want to go back to the 80s the most, thanks also to its soundtrack. let `s talk about very strange things, a title that has gained a cult following and for which we are looking forward to the fifth and final season, which however (according to the latest rumors) may not appear until 2025 at the earliest due to various strikes (first by the writers and now by the actors) going on in Hollywood. In the meantime, we can always refresh our memory by looking at the first four Netflixonce again making us stunned by the dense plot of this teen drama mixed with fantasy and horror, it stars outstanding young actors such as Millie Bobby Brown and Gaten Matarazzo, not forgetting adults from Winona Ryder to David Harbour.
Moving to Italy, we advise you to see (if you haven’t seen it yet) Bang bang baby on Prime Video. The action takes place in Milan in the 1980s. It tells the story of Alice (played by Arianna Becheroni), a shy and insecure teenager who, in order to win her father’s love and trust, decides to follow in his father’s footsteps by becoming the youngest member of a criminal organization. . The cast also includes Adriano Giannini, Dora Romano, Denise Capezza, Antonio Gerardi and Georgia Arena.
A spy story from the Cold War
To tell a spy story set in the 1980s is to give it a precise historical-political flavor. And so on Americans, the acclaimed television series starring Keri Russell and Matthew Reese, we follow the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, who apparently ran a travel agency in Washington in the early 80s, but are actually two secret KGB agents who operate during the Cold War. . You can binge watch six seasons on Disney+.
Instead, we move to Germany in the late 80s with Cleo, a German miniseries by Jella Haase as Cleo Straub, a Stasi operative in East Germany who is framed by her own superiors and arrested under pretext after a mission in West Berlin. She is sentenced to life imprisonment, but spends only three years in prison (where she lost her child) after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of political prisoners of the GDR. Once free, Cleo plans revenge. This is a little gem that you can find on Netflix and from which a second season may soon appear.