Fantasy, horror, thrillers, - Culture offers you its selection of series to discover on streaming platforms in July.
Superpowers, terrifying monsters, a serial killer, and a final season for a flagship series: we take stock of the releases of this early summer on the platforms.
“SupraCell”: Rapman’s first series
And we start with SupraCell on Netflix. It is the first series directed by the British rapper Rapman who is launching into fantasy.
The series follows a group of five ordinary people who discover they are developing superpowers. They have little in common except that they are black and live in South London. It falls to one of them, a man named Michael Lasaki, to bring them together, as the only way to save the woman he loves.
“SupraCell”: since June 27 on Netflix
“Sweet Home”: the return of Korean monsters
Highly anticipated by monster fans, season 3 of Sweet Home is coming to Netflix. Created in 2020, the Korean series has established itself, thanks to its terrifying creatures and its narration, as a new reference in terms of monster stories.
Vacating between monsters and humans, the world finds itself faced with an impossible choice. While ambitions clash, a merciless fight begins for the survival of humanity and the advent of a new era.
“Sweet Home” – season 3: July 19 on Netflix
“Follow”: crimes and social networks
A thrilling thriller to discover on France.tv. Followa French mini-series, in 6 episodes, which caused a sensation among critics for the quality of its script and its direction. The series plunges us into the heart of an investigation into a serial killer in Paris, who uses social networks to carry out his crimes.
We follow Léna, 28, recruited as a community manager for the Paris Police Prefecture. Intoxicated by adrenaline, she embarks on a dangerous game by agreeing to communicate with the killer. Will Léna be able to free herself from the grip of this enigmatic killer before the web he weaves closes around her? Answer on July 15.
“Follow”: July 15 on France.tv
“Homejacking”: false pretenses
Another French series to discover on OCS: Homejacking. One morning a bourgeois couple is kidnapped in their luxurious house in the middle of the forest by a man, hidden under a pink hood, armed and carrying a can of gasoline. And a question: what exactly does he want?
The series revolves around a Russian doll-like story. Where each episode reshuffles the cards and changes the perspective by playing on appearances, to the point of no longer knowing who the aggressor really is.
“Homejacking”: already available on OCS
“Elite”: School is over
On July 26, we will dive back into the world and stories of the students of Las Encinas High School for the 8th and last season ofElite.
Omar and Nadia meet again, graduation is approaching for the students of the prestigious high school, and a final mystery will push friends, as well as enemies, to the brink.
“Elite” – season 8: July 26 on Netflix
“Under the Bridge”: true story
This American series is based on the book by Rebecca Godfrey which tells the true story of Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old girl who went to party with her friends and never came home. The series, which follows Godfrey and a local police officer, takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder, revealing surprising truths about the culprits.
“Under the Bridge”: July 10 on Disney +
“The land of women”: Eva Longoria and Carmen Maura
Available for a few days, this dramatic comedy stars Eva Longoria in the role of Gala, a New Yorker whose life is turned upside down when her husband implicates the family in financial embezzlement. She must then flee the city with her aging mother and her student daughter, to escape the dangerous criminals to whom Gala’s husband, who has disappeared, must be held accountable.
The three women go into hiding in a wine-growing village in northern Spain, the same one that Gala’s mother had fled 50 years before, vowing never to return.
“The Land of Women”: since June 27 on Apple TV+
“The Voice of the Lake”: Natalie Portman in a dark thriller
When the disappearance of a young girl strikes the city of Baltimore at Thanksgiving time in 1966, the lives of two women converge in a fatal collision. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Sherwood (Moses Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underworld of black Baltimore while struggling to provide for his family.
Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes obsessed with Cleo’s mysterious death, a chasm opens up that endangers everyone around them.
“The Voice of the Lake”: July 19 on Apple TV+
“The Decameron”: sex, drunkenness and class struggle
In 1348, the Black Death hit the Italian countryside hard. A handful of aristocrats retire with their servants to a large villa, but what begins as an orgy of sex and drunkenness turns into a real struggle for survival.
A dark comedy, very loosely inspired by the collection of short stories The Decameron by the Florentine writer Boccaccio written between 1349 and 1353, which explores the very current theme of class struggles in times of pandemic.
“The Decameron”: July 25 on Netflix
