With the advent of the new year, drama fans began searching for details of upcoming new series to know what they should wait for and follow and what is not worth wasting time watching. The New Year’s drama navigates the enchanting world of biography and historical drama, and presents works adapted from literary novels that are distinguished by depth and richness.
Here is a list of the most important new works whose first season will be released in 2024.
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1- “Griselda”
The first nomination on the list will be shown within days on the Netflix platform, and it is the short series “Griselda” suitable for crime and biography lovers, written and screenplay by Doug Miro, one of the creators of the famous “Narcos” series that aired between 2015 and 2017 and was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards. The IMDb artistic audience gave it a rating of 8.8 points, and it was also ranked 70th among the 250 most important series in the history of drama.
The work stars Sofia Vergara, Alberto Guerra, Christian Taban, Martin Rodriguez, and Juliana Aiden Martinez, and reviews the biography of the founder of the bloody and brutal cocaine empire in Colombia, the Black Widow, Griselda Blanco, who was treated by everyone as a queen during all the roles she played, whether within her family. As a mother, a notorious businesswoman and the godmother of cocaine.
2- “Expats”
“Expats” is a short series of 6 episodes, which will be shown at the end of this January on the “Amazon Prime” platform. It is a drama starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, and Ji Young Yoo, and is based on the novel by Janice Y. K. Lee entitled “Expats.” The Expatriates was published in 2016.
The work follows a group of expatriate friends who live in Hong Kong, and they are united by a strong friendship due to their estrangement and distance from their original worlds, yet it remains temporary and dependent on the current circumstance only, while we eavesdrop on what they experience and what modern life imposes on them of loss, loss, and new beginnings.
3- “The New Look”
As for historical drama enthusiasts, we recommend the series “The New Look”, which belongs to the drama and biography category, and whose events take place during the period of World War II in conjunction with the Nazi occupation of the city of Paris, and how fashion makers such as “Coco Chanel” and… “Dior” and others with what is happening and its impact on their designs and the history of their brand.
The work will be shown next February on the Apple platform, co-starring Juliette Binoche, Ben Mendelsohn, David Camino, Helen Cardona, Michael Carter, John Malkovich, and Maisie Williams.
4- “Avatar: The Legend of Aang”
One of the most anticipated works of the year, the series “Avatar: Airbender”, also known as “Avatar: The Legend of Aang”, is the live-action version of the animated series of the same name that was released between 2005 and 2008.
The work combines adventure, science fiction, and fantasy, starring Gordon Cormier, Qiawenteo, Ian Owsley, Dallas Liu, Paul Soon Hyung Lee, Elizabeth Yeo, and Daniel Dae Kim.
His story takes place in a fictional world where many fierce battles break out between America and Asia, especially since some Asian residents possess powers that enable them to control the elements of nature such as (water, air, fire, earth) and harness or move them according to what they want, which is what some exploit in combat. Or to serve their own goals.
Until Aang, the twelve-year-old who is the only one capable of controlling all four elements, appears, he decides to unite with his friends, placing on his shoulders a heavy responsibility aimed at extinguishing the flames of war and confronting the bloody ambitions of others, which makes him, in turn, vulnerable to persecution amid attempts to get rid of him throughout the… the time.
5- “The Sympathizer”
“The Sympathizer” is a series starring Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Oh, Tuan Lee, and Hwa Xuandai, adapted from the novel of the same name by Viet Tan Nguyen, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, and directed by Korean Park Chan-wook.
The work is supposed to be shown on the HBO platform and combines black comedy with biting satire, excitement and suspense. It tells the story of a genius spy in the field of disguise, who is forced to flee to the United States near the end of the Vietnam War, where he succeeds in infiltrating the South Vietnamese community in Los Angeles in the 1970s.
While he continues to spy and submit secret reports about everything he witnesses, he finds himself falling prey between the jaws of his work and his primary loyalty and his new world that has become a part of it and has become his entire life. Will this make him change his convictions or see something that he would not have realized had it not been for the experience?
6- “The Three-Body Issue”
The last series on this list is “3 Body Problem”, a science fiction work based on a novel of the same name. Its events begin with an astrophysicist whose father is brutally killed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which motivates her to make a fateful decision in the sixties, for which the entire world will soon pay the price in the future.
As time passes, scientists find themselves – because of it – in a violent confrontation with the threat of an unprecedented invasion, and here they must either confront the new invaders and defend the Earth, or survive with their lives and welcome them, allowing them to rule the planet forever.
The series stars a multi-national cast including Rosalind Chow, Marlo Kelly, Benedict Wong, Liam Cunningham, John Bradley, and Jonathan Pryce. It was written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of the epic drama “Game of Thrones,” but Alexander Wu co-wrote it this time.
