If the first two months of 2022 felt like a controllable ramp for annual streaming offers, be well prepared: the gateways are about to open. With March come major editions from almost every streaming service – from Bridgerton in Netflix to Atlanta of Hulu, from Time to win on HBO Max to Moon Knight at Disney +. There are many things to see, so take a deep breath and see what’s coming this month.
What’s new in streaming in March
Selected list of movies and TV shows coming this month The bell is very excited about.
Better thingsSeason 5 (March 1, Hulu)
Dan Devine: When we were done High supportI asked mine Bell colleagues writing culture, for recommendations for other, similar heartfelt comedies of recent years. This led us to the amazing and cheerful picture of Pamela Adlon Better things, a deep human depiction of what it’s like to be human in the world, while raising daughters who sometimes just hate you and who sometimes get close to hating you, and then you get over it all so you can make dinner, push them to things and continue to love them unconditionally. Having this kind of cute mirror and comedic pressure relief valve for some of the inherent challenges and the accompanying fury of parenthood was felt … well, let’s call it useful.
Drive my car (March 2, HBO Max)
Sean Fenesi: It is a daring three-hour film that is in turn restrained and distant, to an explosive finale that shifts the emotional turmoil from Hidetoshi Nishijima’s director to his driver and companion, played by Toko Miura. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film is beyond intentional – it is a study at a pace and unknowable truths.
West Side Story (March 2, Disney +)
Mani Lazic: Romeo and JulietShakespeare’s critique of the oppressive power of an unequal society has often been simplified in the story of two incredibly wide-eyed lovers, destroyed by fate but with their own West Side Story, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner return it to its original form. In the process, they reinforce the continuing relevance and relevance of the tale. The film’s desire to be candid about racism, misogyny and economic inequality makes its more sublime moments even more tragic and justified, and the music matches the energy by being more produced, more direct and somehow better adapted. to these sinister topics. Instead of an abstract interpretation of racial violence, Spielberg’s West Side Story uses all the tools of filmmaking to better unite classical history and songs into a single part of cinema, such as a strong fist in which every finger is determined to rebel, as well as others.
Dropping out (March 3, Hulu)
Alison Herman: Elizabeth Holmes is a strange, almost inhuman figure of her own invention. The voice! Green juice! The dances! In their reports, both Rebecca Jarvis and John Kerriru largely adhere to the facts, letting unusual events speak for themselves and avoiding unknowable truths like what Holmes thinks. But like The invention of Anna scientifically the hard way, a TV show doesn’t have that option, or otherwise it’s just a more expensive restoration of what has already been done. Dropping out… it also works as a companion – and corrective – to another sensational scam story. The invention of Anna never presents a cohesive theory about the deceiver Anna Delvi. Dropping outand the performance of Amanda Seyfried, present Holmes as brilliant but impatient and under enormous, self-imposed pressure to succeed.
Time to Win: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (March 6, HBO Max)
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Formula 1: Drive to surviveSeason 4 (March 11, Netflix)
Kevin Clark: Drive to survive is based on the personalities of the pilots and team leaders, the people in charge of the pilot teams, who function as something like a general manager / coach. The show revolves around a Type-A alpha staring directly into the camera as Jim Halpert of The office and they just say what they mean by their boss or colleague. The team’s directors walk around and tell Tom Wolfe’s novels; all the drivers are rich, they look like models and there is still a lot to complain about. These are the pillars of the show: Directors try to outdo each other as masters of the universe, while pilots orient themselves in HR dramas and try to compete as fast as possible. This is the most chaotic mixture possible Hard blows, Gossip girl, James Bondand Game of Thrones. This is perfect television.
WeCrashed (March 18, Apple TV +)
Herman: Nothing has been published about WeWork anymore, “dug into what we saw as the heart of the story,” says Drew Crevell, who created WeCrashed s The office executive producer Lee Eisenberg. “There is no WeWork without Rebecca Neumann, and there is no WeWork without the very specific alchemy of these two personalities coming together.” Both Adam and Rebecca Neumann are portrayed as comedy characters, but Rebecca is the one who carries the emotional weight. Some requests for our sympathy are more effective than others.
AtlantaSeason 3 (March 25, Hulu)
Chris Ryan: Many shows try to keep up with the culture; Atlanta it feels like he’s creating it … While the episodes of the second season were somewhat divided on a narrative level, the cumulative effect was huge. For a show that breaks so many rules, its themes are as old as capitalism. Each melancholy entry into “Robbin ‘Season” was a heavy loss and a hard-fought gain. If you imagine Atlanta as a winter ghost town, it was the season for what happens the day after a dream comes true, but you find yourself in the same old bed, in the same old house, in the same old town, with a bunch of new problems that you feel ominous like your old ones.
BridgertonSeason 2 (March 25, Netflix)
Herman: IN Bridgerton the choice that will most likely fall into the headlines is sex. Herein lies the most direct distinction between the ABC era of Shonda Rhymes and Netflix: What if McSteamy could really become… suffocating? Bridgerton it takes a while to warm up, but once it starts, it’s clearer than a CW-like show Gossip girl he could have dreamed once. Be careful to start as a comfortable watch with your mother, just to avoid eye contact on opposite sides of the couch.
Moon Knight (March 30, Disney +)
Daniel Chin: Stewarded by lead screenwriter Jeremy Slater and a directing team of Egyptian director Mohamed Diab and co-duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Moon Knight is expected to be the first MCU project for 2022, when it premieres at Disney + on March 30. After Marvel Studios ended the busy 2021 with the editions of Spider-Man: No way home and the season finale of Hawk’s gaze, two projects that relied on the nostalgic returns of both favorite characters and villains, the studio begins a new year with a new character. IN Moon KnightOur hero’s first trailer doesn’t even know who he is – and he still doesn’t look like much of a hero.
Some new things you may have missed
Since it’s hard to keep up with everything, here are a few things that came up recently at the premiere that might be worth catching up on.
Separation (Apple TV +)
Herman: Created by Dan Erickson and largely directed by Ben Stiller, Separation starring Adam Scott as Mark S., a soft-spoken middle manager at a company called Lumon Industries. Or rather part of it is: In the procedure you give Separation his name, Mark’s primary self, is “detached” from his working self, with one half of his personality retaining no knowledge or memory of the other. Mark’s Ini, Lumon’s infantile term for his 24-hour staff, has no idea what his life is like for the remaining 16 hours a day; Mark’s “mark” has no idea what he’s actually doing in exchange for his salary.
The invention of Anna (Netflix)
Reacher (Amazon Prime)
Jodie Walker: Based on a series of novels by Lee Child, following fictional analyst Jack Reacher, the new Amazon Prime series is extremely focused on investing in the mysterious protagonist. Is Reacher a former military man? You know he is. Does he arrive in a small town in Georgia by bus with nothing but shoes on his feet, clothes on his back, and a mysterious World War II medal in his pocket? He certainly does. Does Reacher have his own moral code, which you or the law may disagree with, but which he follows, regardless of the cost? You bet on your ass.
Jeen-yuhs: Kanye Trilogy (Netflix)
Alan Siegel: Righteous gems is a comedy that uses the premise of a superb family of TV evangelicals as a starting point and then spends its first season in a family drama that would make every prestigious series blush – debauchery, extortion, endless battles. With an cast that includes Walton Goggins, Adam Devine and Eddie Patterson’s Theft in addition to John Goodman and Danny McBride, Season 1 paints a picture of a family so busy tidying up their own pockets that they got lost. Now, season 2 plans to go even deeper, exploring Eli Gemstone’s past and how it led him to become a megachurch magnate.
