‘Warrior Nun’, ‘1899’, ‘Resident Evil’, ‘Midnight Club’: in recent months alot of Netflix series have been put in the trash. Which closures of the pastyears still make us heartbroken? And with which series is it still worthcatching up with them?
Stephen WerbrouckFriday, January 6, 202311:07
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‘1899’
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After the success of ‘Dark’, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar from Netflixclearly received enough money to make an even more ambitious series, about aship on the high seas that becomes involved in an increasingly complex mysterywith a supernatural edge.
Worth catching up? No. ‘1899’ is certainly not bad, but it mainly has todo with the question of what exactly is going on. Unless the series is takenover by another streaming service and the makers can still give their answer,it is not worth eight hours of your life.
‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’
Teenage Bounty HuntersImage Netflix
Two teenage girls accidentally come into contact with a bounty hunter chasingcriminals and decide to do the same themselves bounty hunters become, inthis comical action series that briefly brought a sliver of sunlight into thelockdowns in the summer of 2021.
Worth catching up? A doubtful case. ‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’ is awonderfully funny and moving series and a textbook example of how you can makesomething that is completely believable with an out of the pot premise. Butthe first season ends with a cliffhanger and afterwards the feeling prevailsthat there could have been much more.
‘The Baby Sitters Club’
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Film adaptation of children’s books Ann M Martin , about some twelve-year-old girls who set up a babysitting service together in Stoneybrook, thefictional town where they grow up. Coldly stopped by Netflix after twocritically acclaimed seasons.
Worth catching up? Absolute. With no big riddles left unsolved, The Baby-sitter’s Club is also a unique series that portrays the problems in the livesof growing children – bullying, divorced parents, raging hormones – withoutbecoming sentimental or childish.
‘ GLOW’
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One of the main victims of corona on Netflix was this fact-based dramedy abouta group of female wrestlers in the 1980s. Preparations for a fourth seasonwere in full swing when the pandemic hit and the streaming service decidedthat with all the extra security measures a new series would still be tooexpensive.
Worth catching up? If you can live with her just stopping at some point,then yes. Even though they take place in completely different worlds, ‘GLOW’is actually the perfect successor to the drama series with which screenwriterJenji Kohan broke through at Netflix (and which she was allowed to closein beauty): ‘Orange is the New Black’
‘mind hunter’
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Officially, ‘Mindhunter’ has never been discontinued by Netflix, but after thesecond season appeared, the creator left David Fincher here and there thestreaming service found the series too expensive and the chance of a thirdyear was therefore very small. Since that second season already dates from2019, all hope seems to be gone.
Worth catching up? Certainly, because ‘Mindhunter’ is also an absolutemasterpiece in the aborted version. The series follows the work of a specialdivision of the FBI in the 1970s that first sought ways to catch serialkillers. profiling and is both a thrilling crime drama and an intelligentcommentary on our obsession with cruel psychopaths and true crime.