The best TV series (so far) of 2022 to recover on vacation

The holidays are coming and hopefully we will have more time to devote to free time. For example, to recover the tide of TV series that we have set aside or started and then abandoned in recent months. With the proliferation of streams and series in every schedule, it is increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news, which then add up to the great returns. This serial season, in particular, saw the arrival of new cult seasons such as Stranger Things, Euphoria, Ozarks, Better Call Saul, Mrs. Maisel and many more. Here, however, you will find some tips on unreleased series that may have escaped you so far, but which are worth recovering to catch up with the best of 2022 production, at least so far:

Abbott Elementary (Disney +) Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

In the golden age of streaming, sitcoms are not doing very well: the comedy genre is perceived as something of the past and attempts are made to regenerate it in all ways. Yet a good old comedy has something reassuring, just as reassuring and refreshing is Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary about the adventures and misadventures of a Philadelphia preschool. Although the institute is peripheral and always short of funds, the teachers who animate it are extravagant, exciting and somewhat bizarre characters.

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This original Italian Prime Video series has accomplished the miracle of renewing the mafia and teen genres in one fell swoop. In the eighties the protagonist and point of view of the story Alice (Arianna Becheroni) is a teenager like many others until she discovers that her father (Adriano Giannini) is a Milanese underworld boss: determined to get on his trail she will find herself involved up to the hair in the criminal rounds. Coming of age full of inventiveness and depth, but also of a very hypnotic neon style, it is a truly amazing Italian product.

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Bea, Ludo and Madhi are the three young protagonists of Block 181, the original production of Sky that wants to tell in an unprecedented way the disadvantaged and criminal life of the Milanese suburbs. It does so with a compelling plot and above all thanks to the real triangle of the three young people who have to juggle rival gangs and attempts at personal emancipation. Among the protagonists there is also the rapper Salmo, who is also the producer and musical curator of the series, received with great fanfare both by the public and by the critics, and immediately renewed for a second season.

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If you were to insert the Christian series in a pre-established serial genre, the effort would be enormous. And maybe it wouldn't even be worth it. A little underworld series, a little existential drama, a little Roman comedy, a little mystical enigma, it is a story that plays with conventions and plunges the viewer into the unexpected. Edoardo Pesce is masterful in interpreting the protagonist of the title, the henchman of a Roman boss who has stigmata. Between real and presumed miracles, Vatican influences and real mafia retaliation, everything is played on the edge of the indefinite, continually challenging the limit between true and false.

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Chiara Battistini and Paolo Bernardelli, formerly among the screenwriters of SanPa, write this crime docuseries which is more compelling than a fiction: between the seventies and Eighties Milan was the Italian capital of crime, and here the destinies of great rogues such as Vallanzasca, the Theban, Francis Turatello crossed. But there were also many prefects, magistrates and policemen who hunted them down. Starting from the book Last edition: Black stories from the archives of La Notte, an exciting and almost dreamy tale of a very violent era but which is still cloaked in nostalgia.

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Based on the bestseller of the same name by Min Jin Lee, Pachinko is a family saga that spans a century and, precisely in this long period of time, follows not only the events of a family but also of an entire country, Korea, which passes from Japanese occupation to immigration to the United States. Sunja (Yoon Yeo-jeong) is the progenitor of a family that will start a saga of love, tragedy, political intrigue and economic redemptions, which will lead us to the story of his nephew Solomon, who tries to make a fortune in the USA. Few series dominate such a vast material with such great precision and passion.

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The Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape made a bit of show and costume history. But no one had ever wondered that, behind the easygoing gossip, there was a rather troubled personal story and also a certain tendency to feed the public with the most intimate details of celebrities that, from the nineties to today, can only seem to us alienating. This miniseries tells the facts and the background with great wit and inventiveness, also thanks to two really successful interpreters like Lily James and Sebastian Stan.

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Scissione is perhaps one of the most atypical series seen so far this year. Not only for the starting point, that is a company that has developed a system whereby every employee is removed any kind of memory related to their personal life while they are at work. But also for the brilliant, surprising and subversive way in which this idea is developed and exploded, becoming on the one hand a powerful metaphor for toxic working environments and on the other an excellent deployment of aesthetic and narrative precision. Not to mention the excellent performances of actors like Adam Scott, Christopher Walken and especially John Turturro and Patricia Arquette.

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