When he most seemed anchored in laziness and condemned to irrelevance, Tim Burton has again had a success on his hands with ‘Wednesday’, the peculiar revision of the character of ‘The Addams Family’ made for Netflix. The most watched series of the year on the platform has conquered from the youthful adventures and from the fantastic and macabre comedy.
In order not to stop there, another of our already classic lists arrives that dives between the different streaming platforms and recovers some series tonally or thematically similar to the series of Jenna Ortega. Whether you liked it or feel that its potential has been wasted, these three proposals offer the perfect mix of high school problems and supernatural moves or extraordinary.
THE 10 BEST SERIES OF THE DECADE (2010-2019)
‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, 1997-2003)
Created by: Joss Whedon. Distribution: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, James Marsters, David Boreanaz.
An essential classic when it comes to gathering youth and solving macabre ballots. With a complicated legacy because what makes it great is having someone as disgraced as Joss Whedon responsible for it, the series has enough virtues within it to still worth rediscovery.
First with an absolutely iconic Sarah Michelle Gellar as this young vampire hunter and demon problem solver. Then with a team of secondary schools that grow and take on a life of their own as the series progresses. The way she works each episode as “the monster of the week” is absolute reference even for current seriesand few have made a better connection between growing up and kicking monsters.
Watch on Disney+ | Criticism in Espinof
‘Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events’ (‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’, 2017-2019)
Created by: Mark Hudis, Barry Sonnenfeld. Distribution: Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman, K. Todd Freeman, Louis Hynes.
One of Netflix’s first strong bets on twisted family adventure with fantastic details. The adaptation of the seminal work of Daniel Handler (who created the alter ego of Lemony Snicket, who ends up taking a relevant role in the series) comes from the hand of Barry Sonnenfeld, who already left his mark on this kind of fiction with the two films of ‘The Addams Family’ that survive the longest in the collective memory.
Without completely breaking it, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ was able to enter the drama experienced by the Baudelaire orphans with enough lightness and fantasy so that it is not all a depressing tragedy. Managing the tone well and distributing the stories appropriately (plus a superb Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf), it was a grateful proposal that knew how to adapt the special touch of the books.
Watch on Netflix | Criticism in Espinof
‘The chilling adventures of Sabrina’ (‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’, 2018-2020)
Created by: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Distribution: Kiernan Shipka, Jaz Sinclair, Michelle Gomez, Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis.
If I have mentioned the permanent influence of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ before, I have done so with this fantastic adaptation of the Archie Comics character, which maintains the structure while tracing its current season arc. He does it with a fabulous macabre aestheticwho knows how to differentiate the character from his cousin-sister ‘Riverdale’, from which he also takes elements.
The adventures and problems of adolescence, but with the peculiarity of a world of witchcraft and satanism demanding their leap towards maturity. First-rate youthful terror that gradually lost power and relevance over time until a less flashy ending. It does not stop being for that reason full of twisted funwith a splendid Kiernan Shipka in the role and a good gallery of fantastically designed creatures.
Watch on Netflix | Criticism in Espinof