HBO Max shared its list of most watched series and films this week by Latin American audiences. Among them, Qué Puedo Ver chose a new psychological thriller that quickly reached the top spot, an instant classic that stands in the Top 10 and three favorite series not to be missed.
Ecos de un crimen
This Argentinian film, directed by Christian Bernard, arrived on the platform on March 18 and is already the most watched. This is a suspense story with signs of psychological horror made by Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO Max, Private Crowd and Tieless Media.
Starring Diego Peretti (The Simulators), Julieta Cardinali, Carla Quevedo and Diego Cremonesi, shows a best-selling writer, Julián Lemar (Peretti), creator of the Scorpion saga, so successful that it has been brought to the screen, that it suffers a creative blockage. It may be stress, but it could also be a more important mental disorder. He arrives with his wife (Cardinali), daughter and baby to a cabin in a wooded area, to try to regain his calm and return to work.
On the first night, however, a raging storm seems to tell you that wherever you go you will have no peace. The electricity supply is cut off, the house will reverberate like the waters of a nearby lake. Then a desperate woman arrives, Ana (Quevedo), who explains to her that her husband (Cremonesi) has killed her son and now goes after her to kill her. While the family tries to help, Lemar sinks into a confused night where he doesn't know whether to trust his own perceptions. But finding out the truth could lead them to become victims of the murderer as well, or the murderers.
DMZ
Another recent premiere — on March 17 — that quickly won over audiences. Starring Rosario Dawson and inspired by the DC Comics comic strip, DMZ shows a New York dominated by gangs and criminals after a second American war of secession. In a city so distorted by violence that the family has become unrecognizable, Alma Ortego is looking for her son.
Nobody leaves and no one enters Manhattan Island, but Alma (Dawson) has managed 24 hours to find Christian, from whom she was separated eight years earlier, during the evacuation of the area.
The research shows him more than he would have liked to see: in a place where survival depends on knowing how to keep his head down or being the worst of all those fighting for power, Christian is now Skel (Freddy Miyares) and lives by the rules that his father, Parco (Benjamin Bratt), has taught him.
Alma thus begins a path that makes it a symbol of hope for residents trapped in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in this limited series created by Roberto Patino, based on that of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, which features Ava Du Vernay (Selma, XIII) and Ernest Dickerson as directors.
Raised By Wolves (segunda temporada)
The first season of Raised by Wolvesb featured two androids who were left in charge of raising human children on a mysterious unexplored planet, Kepler-22b. The colony of Homo sapiens is under threat; at the same time, it is difficult for those responsible for the mission, Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim) to deal with the belief system of the almost extinct species.
After 10 episodes that left open the possibility of a second season, Mother and Father face a new scenario, with six human children, in which they begin to understand the religious differences that almost ended humans. Executive produced by Ridley Scott, this series created by Aaron Guzikowski, this science fiction series mixes a dystopian future with the origins of humanity, while reflecting on family and existence.
Collin and Salim are joined by a cast of Winta McGrath, Niamh Algar, Jordan Loughran, Matias Varela, Felix Jamieson, Ethan Hazzard, Aasiya Shah, Ivy Wong, Peter Christoffersen, Selina Jones, Morgan Santo, James Harkness, Kim Engelbrecht, Jennifer Saayeng and Travis Fimmel.
Lakers: time to win
Few remember that decades ago the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team was mediocre. Lakers: Time to Win (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) tells how an entrepreneur Jerry Buss (played by John C. Reilly) decided to buy them and bet on a rookie named Earvin Magic Johnson (Quincy Isaiah), with the known result of having started one of the most important dynasties in the sport, with a style of play that transcended basketball and the United States.
This 10-episode series is based on Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, Jeff Pearlman's book, and was created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht. The main artistic brand belongs to its executive producer, Adam McKay (Anchorman, Don't Look Up), who also directed the first episode.
Between 1980 and 1991 the Lakers played nine NBA championships and won five, as well as attracting Hollywood celebrities to their games. The cast includes Jason Clarke as coach Jerry West, Gaby Hoffmann as finance manager Clarie Rothman and Adrian Brody as Pat Riley.
Matrix resurrecciones
Almost 20 years after the end of the Matrix trilogy, a saga that redefined 21st century action and science fiction cinema, filmmaker Lana Wachowski returned — without her sister Lilly, this time — with a fourth installment, Matrix Resurrections , which premiered to a blockbuster ($427.3 million) before moving to HBO Max.
Fans may miss Lawrence Fishbourne (replaced by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus) and Hugo Weaving (agent Smith was played by Jonathan Groff), but the two main actors, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne-Moss provide much more than a bit of nostalgia in this return with chemistry intact.
Closer to social networks and the world of fake news, this film put the narrative that caught millions at the service of a reading of today's world, more focused on human relations. The critics rated it as a worthy successor to that 1999 work that won four Oscars: for Best Edition, Best Sound, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects and Best Visual Special Effects.
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