8/11/2023 0 Comments Jean reno amazon![]() ![]() Set in Antwerp among Orthodox Jewish diamond merchants, this stately series is played in Yiddish, Flemish, English and French. (A German shepherd, so he speaks the language.) They’re roommates too. Long-running, colorful, location-rich ‘90s police procedural teams groovy Vienna police detective Tobias Moretti with the eponymous police dog. Suddenly faced with a plan to build a pool on the terrace that will eliminate his living quarters, and his job, Eliseo quietly goes to war. He’s a man not averse to kickbacks, or surreptitiously renting out a flat when its owners go on vacation, but he takes pride in his work. In this splendidly rendered dark comedy of social and economic class, Guillermo Francella plays Eliseo, the manager of a luxury condominium in Buenos Aires, who in 30 years has come to identify the building as his own, and the tenants, upon whom he spies, as what must be managed. Each will free you for a while from American ways of thinking.Įl Encargado (Hulu). This isn’t a “best” list - “ Borgen” is not on it - just a collection of things I like, shows I found fun, funny, surprising, enlightening, exciting or beautiful, or that opened a window onto a new world. These are series that, for the most part, were made for their respective native audiences they offer an inside, not a tourist, view, and so take you places tourists don’t go. (Of course that app will be available soon, sadly.) Imagine going to Italy or Egypt and every voice you hear is dubbed in English. Many foreign-language shows are available dubbed, but the sound of a tongue is as fundamental to a culture as the taste of its food. One incidental benefit of the streaming wars - produced by the hunger for content, niche programming and platforms, and the big streamers’ global presence - is that programs from around the world have become available here as never before, and in such profusion that you can fill your queue with interesting series from now until New Year’s and never hear a word of English. Travel broadens the mind, not because you have seen the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum in the metaphorical flesh, but because it teaches us that our view of the world is limited, informed - or deformed - by the rites, customs and mythologies of wherever it is we’re born, and the cultural assumptions we grow up to regard as “normal.” And while there’s no substitute for being there, this is nevertheless a lesson you can learn from your own American couch, through the offices of imported television. ![]()
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