Dear friends,
Somehow, we are the first publication in English to cover this week's excellent TV pick, Ethos.
OUR TOP TV SHOW OF THE WEEK
Ethos
New on Netflix everywhere today.
This gorgeous drama-thriller is set in bustling Istanbul where different characters, mostly women, cross paths.
And when I say gorgeous, I mean of the drop-dead variety. The cinematography is reminiscent of the Japanese style of Kazuo Miyagawa or Columbus director Kogonada.
And it’s all matched by the dialogue. The first episode follows a woman who lays bare her life in a first session with a psychologist. The story then moves on to her psychologist seeing her own clinician, mostly discussing how she feels about seeing veiled patients.
📰 To quote the Turkish publication Haberturk on the show’s brilliance: “acting, screenwriting, directing, music, everything is all very, very above average for Turkey.”
📺 on Netflix everywhere; 🍅 - not yet reviewed.
OUR TOP MOVIE OF THE WEEK
The Life Ahead
New today on Netflix everywhere. In Italian.
A Holocaust survivor takes in a 12-year-old kid who robbed her in this easy drama.
If that sounds a lot like The Blindspot, I assure you it’s anything but. Life isn’t easy for neither the savior character nor the saved, as Rosa, retired from a life of sex work, is struggling to pay rent. Her house becomes known as “the refuge,” a place for destitute kids like Momo, but also a way for Rosa to make ends meet.
📰 Hollywood Reporter: “Audiences will warm to the handsomely crafted Italian-language Netflix feature, a sentimental yet satisfying labor of love.”
📺 On Netflix everywhere; 🍅 rating: 92%
Top picks elsewhere
Season 4 of The Good Doctor, the medical drama, is now on Hulu.
Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies is a new documentary on the library-subscription service Kanopy. It’s about the history of propaganda and its exploitation of visual art.
Patria is a new critically-acclaimed Spanish show on HBO about the lives of two families against the backdrop of Basque terrorism.
The award-sweeper and Oscar-bound First Cow has been added to Showtime. It’s about two misfits who start a business around the arrival of the first-ever cow to the Northwest (in the 1820s).
That’s it for this week, I hope there is something in there for you.
The next edition will be the weekly New and Expiring recap. It will be in your inbox on Wednesday, November 18th.
Until then,
Bilal
This issue was edited by Salwa Benaissa.