6 new May series that you MUST watch. There is one Russian, very normal

Ahead of the weekend, and in this post a selection of great series. Everything fits.)

I have collected for you the most interesting that came out this month from different studios. Some TV series can be watched legally, others will have to be searched in a search engine. I’m sure you can handle it.

You are waiting for: a comedy sitcom about a powerful government organization, a sci-fi story about a married couple who have a portal to other planets opened in the basement, a new season about love, death and robots and something else.

Happy weekend everyone:

1. The Pentaverate

Genre: comedy
Release year: 2022
Audience rating: 6.10 (IMDb), 5.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Tim Kirkby
Cast: Mike Myers, Lydia West, Jeremy Irons, Maria Menounos

About what: an ironic story about a mysterious world government and terrible conspiracies.

The Pentaverat is a five-member secret society that has been secretly saving the world since the plague in 1347. Among the modern members of the association there is a former Russian oligarch, an Australian media mogul, and also a lord and an IT genius.

By chance, a Canadian journalist gets into their ranks, who also has to monitor the safety of the world. An interesting mini-series in which Mike Myers played not one, but five roles at once.

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2. Love, death and robots season 3 (Love, Death & Robots season 3)

Genre: cartoon, fantasy, comedy, thriller, horror, thriller, fantasy, crime
Release year: 2022
Audience rating: 8.40 (IMDb), 8.2 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Jerome Chen, Tim Miller, Victor Maldonado
Cast: Fred Tatasciore, Scott White, Nolan North, Noshir Dalal, Josh Brener

About what: film adaptation of fantasy novels written by science fiction authors from around the world

The new season of the beloved series consists of 9 unrelated episodes, each of which is an adaptation of some fantastic story.

Separately, it is worth noting that David Fincher became the director of one of the episodes and his work about the crew of a ship attacked by a sea monster is one of the brightest episodes in the third season. The remaining eight episodes are also interesting, and in general, the third season leaves a better impression than the previous, second.

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3 The Essex Serpent

Genre: drama
Release year: 2022
Audience rating: 6.70 (IMDb), 6.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: UK
Directed by: Clio Barnard
Cast: Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Frank Dillane, Clemence Poesy, Hayley Squires

About what: a story about human superstitions that can turn out to be a frightening reality.

The heroine is the recently widowed Cora, who moves from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex.

There are stories among the locals about a mythical creature that lives in the local swamps and sometimes abducts livestock and even people in the area. The heroine will have to find out how true these stories are.

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4. Night sky (Night Sky)

Genre: fantasy, drama, adventure
Release year: 2022
Audience rating: 7.50 (IMDb), – (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Philip Martin, Juan Jose Campanella, Shari Springer Berman
Cast: J.K. Simmons, Sissy Spacek, Chai Hansen

About what: An elderly couple discovers a mysterious teleporter in their basement that allows them to travel through space.

A married couple, with the help of a secret portal in the basement of their house, can move to another planet. The couple spend a long time watching the bewitching fantastic landscapes, and then return home as if nothing had happened.

But one day their serene life is disturbed by the appearance on the threshold of a young stranger, whom the heroes take for an alien.

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5. Prehistoric Planet

Genre: documentary
Release year: 2022
Audience rating: 9.10 (IMDb), 8.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA, UK
Director: Andy Jones, Adam Valdez
Cast: David Attenborough

About what: a documentary about the world of dinosaurs that lived 66 million years ago.

Modern technologies and science allow you to travel back 66 million years and see how the then inhabitants of the land and seas lived.

A documentary film about dinosaurs in their natural habitat will not leave anyone indifferent, and Nikolai Drozdov’s voice-over will give you complete confidence that you are watching “In the Animal World”, only about huge and unusual creatures.

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6 Patient Zero

Genre: drama, detective
Release year: 2022
Audience rating: – (IMDb), 8.2 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Sergey Trofimov, Evgeny Stychkin
Cast: Askar Ilyasov, Nikita Efremov, Elizaveta Shakira, Evgenia Mandzhieva, Evgeny Stychkin

About what: Soviet doctors face the first HIV outbreak in the USSR.

The year is 1988, the scene is the Kalmyk ASSR. A young doctor at a children’s hospital, Kirsan Ayushev, suspects that several of his patients have HIV, but senior colleagues do not believe this is possible, so Kirsan secretly sends samples to Moscow.

When the tests confirm his correctness, the scientist Dmitry Goncharov, a specialist in an “exotic” disease little known in the USSR, joins the case. Now the fate of dozens of children and several adults, and possibly the entire country, depends on the actions of the capital epidemiologist and the provincial pediatrician.

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