Today’s TV tips
Love for music
Music. This episode focuses on Jasper Steverlinck, known for his wonderfully beautiful and powerful voice. It soon becomes clear that his musical oeuvre is also delicious. From rock to reggae and even a beautiful a cappella song with which Laura Tesoro amazes everyone. Suzan and Freek’s version also moves everyone.
At 9.35 pm on VTM.
Black Widow
Movie. Immediately after her birth, Natasha Romanoff was entrusted to the KGB, the Soviet Union’s most important secret service, which trained her to become a highly driven agent and the agency’s ultimate weapon. When the Soviet Union collapses, she is doomed and is forced to move to New York. When she uncovers a conspiracy, Natasha must deal with her past as a spy.
At 8.25 pm on VTM2.
Need for Speed
Movie. Tobey Marshall is the owner of a car company and moonlights in fixing up racing cars. When his company threatens to go bankrupt, he joins forces with the arrogant ex-NASCAR racer Dino Brewster. The collaboration seems to be going well when they almost have a big deal with car dealer Julia Bonet, but a disastrous race lands Tobey innocently in prison for attempted murder. After his release, he resolves to get back at Dino during the famous De Leon race, the Super Bowl of underground racing.
At 8:20 PM on Play6.
Tasks.
Movie. Ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills is an overprotective divorced father. When his 17-year-old daughter Kim wants to go to Paris, he reluctantly agrees. One evening he receives a phone call from which he deduces that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bryan takes matters into his own hands and travels to the City of Light. He has only 92 hours to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of traffickers.
At 10.50 pm on VTM2.
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Baby Reindeer
Life is not going so well for a while for Donny (Richard Gadd), who is in his late thirties. He was dumped by his girlfriend not long after moving from Edinburgh to London. Donny is a struggling stand-up comedian, who perhaps should have worked on his repertoire a little longer before taking that step to the capital.
So for a living he works as a bartender in a pub in Camden, where a seemingly innocent act of kindness – he offers a free drink to Martha (Jessica Gunning), who is sitting on dry semen – lands like a boomerang back in his pocket. : Martha starts stalking him, and also becomes visibly bolder in her methods.
On Netflix.
Shogun
The ten part Shogunstarring the relatively unknown British-American actor Cosmo Jarvis as Blackthorne and Hiroyuki Sanada (John Wick: Chapter 4) as Toranaga, is a sequence of epic grandeur, which echoes Ridley Scott’s recent Napoleon And especially – Game of Thrones shows. She is fearless in showing the often inhumanly cruel traditions on which feudal Japan was founded. The sex is depicted as chastely as in the soon to be 45-year-old original, but the violence goes a few octaves higher; although what you are served is more of a frenzied grandguignol than that Shogun tries to shock with its brutality.
On Disney+.
Fallout
Before the atomic bombs were dropped and all of America turned into a radioactive wasteland, opportunistic mutant bounty hunter Cooper (Walton Goggins) was an actor in old-fashioned straight-up Westerns, specializing in the old-fashioned righteous cowboy.
In the series Fallout, Based on the brilliant video game series of the same name, the occasional flashbacks to Cooper’s pre-apocalyptic acting life provide a razor-sharp image of the morally gray area in which this unapologetically pulpy parable about greed, group formation and the urge to survive takes place.
On Amazon Prime Video.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
With Donald Glover as screenwriter and protagonist Mr. & Mrs. Smith you expect an alienating, Lynchian universe like that of his hit series Atlanta. Nothing is less true. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is rooted in more classic fiction, more specifically a spy world like that of James Bond, Jason Bourne and Mission: Impossible. The 2005 film of the same name with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is a difficult point of comparison. That entertaining Hollywood lightweight relied on the sparks between the leading actors and the spectacular shoot-outs. Pitt and Jolie played a married pair of spy-hitmen, albeit for rival employers. One day they are ordered by their respective bosses to kill each other.
Glovers’ premise Mr. & Mrs. Smith is quite different. In the series, he and a superb Maya Erskine are given a spacious New York row house as a base for a mysterious organization. They have to go through life as John and Jane Smith, a married couple, both computer programmers.
On Amazon Prime Video.
