Can’t go to your favourite theatre? Fret not
Manpriya Singh
tranger Things Season 4 might have been pushed to 2021, but remember Frozen 2 was preponed by three weeks just when the lockdown scare had begun to stare right in our faces? With theatres still in the dark, is it any wonder that the ‘coming soon’ list of most web platforms keeps swelling? Scrolling through the list of the most ‘corona-safe’ form of entertainment… Netflix takes the lead, with the proverbial something for everyone.
Favourites’ list
If space travel, eccentric scientist and comedy thrown in between the two, sounds promising, there’s Space Force slated for release at the end of May. For those rather into familiar favourites that ‘nth’ season of any successful show brings, there’s Queen of the South Season 4, a series often compared to Breaking Bad, which is slated to release in the first week of June. This time around, Theresa sets out to be a legitimate businesswoman but for the local goons. Even the Carrington family drama continues in Dynasty Season 3, scheduled for May 23.
Not invested in a series, director Spike Lee’s Netflix movie Da 5 Bloods (starring beloved Black Panther Chadwick Boseman) appears all set to take the viewers into the aftermath of Vietnam War. Slated for the middle of June release, Spike Lee has on record explained how it has been a film he has wanted to make despite the fact, “There was nothing that was easy in this film.” Be it the opening battle sequence or the shoot in the jungle. Then there is Snowpiercer, a 2020 TV series that the streaming giant acquired the rights to relay, but is dropping only two episodes per week.
Zombie zone
Moving on, the Indian connect and the horror genre come together in the web series Betaal (May 24), starring familiar Indian names Aahana Kumra and Suchitra Pillai, wherein highway officials unearth an old curse and an army of British soldier zombies. Not for everyone! Talk of reality shows, still a stupendously successful genre in the living rooms across the world, there’s Netflix ready to take us back to the early days of K-sisters — Kim, Khloe, Kourtney — with the first two seasons of Keeping up with the Kardashians all set to drop on June 1. Elsewhere, the platform Voot Select has lined-up America’s Got Talent Season 15 from May end.
Indian films & series
In Bollywood the trend that was set up by Angrezi Medium, several big films have already followed and the rest seem to be eyeing a digital release. No streaming guide for lockdown is complete without taking into account the films that skipped theatres, or the India-based web series that all streaming giants have now realised the potential of.
Among the India-centric series, all set to be aired on May 29 is Kaali 2, starring Paoli Dam, wherein season 2 of the Zee5 web series tracks the journey of a mother who stops at nothing for her child. By now, we all know Gulabo Sitabo will hit the living rooms directly on June 12.
