If you don't need Christmas-themed television this holiday season, and even appreciate a break from the sound of sleigh bells, HBO has a documentary that will radically transport you to another reality. And not a bucolic one. It's titled Thoughts and prayers. Oro how to survive an active shooter in AmericaIn Spanish it has been translated as I share your feelings. And what you'll see will leave you appalled. The documentary begins with a casting call where some salespeople enthusiastically present all sorts of gadgets designed for personal protection: armored shutters, tables and whiteboards that transform into shields, robots that attack strangers, alarm systems, devices to lock doors or immobilize people...

There seems to be no maximum size limit for giants. Netflix has announced that it has reached an agreement with Warner to acquire its assets, including the HBO Max platform and many others. The streaming service pioneer is suddenly leaping an order of magnitude in a deal that will involve the purchase of shares worth €62 billion. This means the company has been valued at €70 billion, a 30% increase over the nominal value of the shares.

Two fathers, both with obvious problems, on opposite sides of the law. This is, in essence, the scheme of Task, the new series from the creator of Madre of Easttown (2021), Brad Ingelsby, who hopes to repeat the success of that miniseries with another story about characters with a very heavy burden. This isn't the only element shared by both productions. Task, which arrives this Monday on HBO, is also set in suburban Pennsylvania, specifically the city of Philadelphia.

Six months ago, HBO premiered The heroic minute: I also left Opus Dei, a documentary series directed by Mònica Terribas that exposed the atrocities of this sect through victims who managed to leave it. Now, the platform itself uncovers the abuses and corruption of the leader of the Legionaries of Christ through some of the witnesses who were able to distance themselves from that congregation, which, in some ways, rivaled Opus Dei in attracting followers, especially in Mexico and the United States. Marcial Maciel: The Wolf of GodIn his book, American journalist Jason Berry, a pioneer in exposing scandals within the Catholic Church, defines the protagonist as "one of the Church's greatest criminals of the 20th century and, at the same time, one of its greatest fundraisers." He refers to the large number of minors he abused and how he created the religious structures and dynamics for many others to perpetuate this practice. Maciel earned an annual income of more than $600 million, double the Vatican's budget at the time. He expanded his reach to more than twenty countries through educational projects and diversified his profits in tax havens. Pope John Paul II made Maciel untouchable within the Church. The pontiff's protection guaranteed his period of splendor and impunity, despite internal investigations that identified him as a corrupt abuser and drug addict.

Actress Jayne Mansfield was one of the sex symbols of 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, sculpted by agents and producers as a replica of Marilyn Monroe. Despite her university education, her command of four languages, and her experience in dance, violin, and piano, her talent was undervalued and she was turned into what the media called her. dumb blonde. The magazine Life Mansfield was heavily exploited in advertising and, like Marilyn Monroe, died tragically at the age of 34 after a tortuous life in which men manipulated and abused her. Hollywood built cages to control its most explosive blondes.

In procedural series—those that follow the investigation of a crime—there is a variant that moves away from the stereotypical image of the tortured police officer: crime mysteries starring women. In recent weeks, several options have emerged that opt for this formula. We review the most recent premieres featuring female investigators who, like their male colleagues, also suffer from trauma and have unique characteristics that make them special. A list that could also include the Basque series Missing.

It is often said that reality surpasses fiction, but in an age in which we have become fed up with watching apocalyptic series, many of the things that were experienced during this Monday's blackout We've already experienced them on the small screen. We review eight fictions that, in one way or another, can transport us back to the anguish suffered during the widespread power outage.

One of the distinctive features of The White Lotus, which closed the third season this week, is the opening credits theme tune, which caused a sensation from the very first season. As with the cast, the music varies each season, and until now it has always been the work of Canadian composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer. But the fourth season will no longer feature his services. The reason? The musician and the series creator, Mike White, have had a falling out and have made public their evident lack of understanding. According to Tapia de Veer, who won three Emmy Awards for his work on the series, the final straw was White's decision to alter the opening theme tune for the third season, even though he didn't agree, and to not include the vocal sounds that do appear in the first and second seasons.

Turning a monstrous crime into a work of art. This action carefully defines In Cold Blood (1965), by Truman Capote, considered the starting pistol of one of the great journalistic and literary revolutions of the 20th century: the non-fiction novel. The New American journalism (authors such as Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Harper Lee) brought a shine to a phenomenon that has reached the present day at its best thanks to the fascination with true crime.