Two comedy series and two sad losses: what you can't miss this week

The week ahead, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will listen to Streetsweeper, the new album by John Andrews & The Yawns. Andrews is one of the most versatile musicians in the New York indie-folk scene, always around Woods, and a participant in wonderful projects like Hand Habits or Cut Worms. He has just released his sixth album, a continuous record of warm melodies that mix americana (Friends of misery), dreamy folk (Through & Through) and Beatle-esque pop inspiration (Olivia). A pleasure, as always.

I will take advantage that the NBA finals have just ended to celebrate the victory of the Knicks and start the second season ofA new play, the comedy by Mindy Kaling, one of the funniest and most original minds in American television. Obviously, it is set in basketball and in the adventures of a dysfunctional and very wealthy family at the head of a franchise in the best league in the world. The best part? A Kate Hudson in top form.

I will remember David Hockney, one of the most influential painters of the last 50 years. British, who resided for a good part of his life in California, he brought color to our lives with luminous and everyday paintings. A lover of pop and marijuana, the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum in Paris dedicated an extraordinary retrospective to him just one year before his passing. A journey through 70 years of creation by an absolutely visionary artist.

The week that ends, with Thaïs Gutiérrez Vinyets

Notes on what we have seen, felt, tasted and, in short, lived in the last seven days

I am enjoying the series very much Widow's Bay which you can watch on Apple TV and which, despite being within the horror genre, masterfully combines comedy with a story of curses, ghosts, and evil spirits. If you need more incentives to watch it, you have Matthew Rhys – the unforgettable co-star of The Americans– as the main star and he is accompanied by some endearing supporting characters. 

I had dinner at the Xarxa restaurant, in Plaza Molina in Barcelona, which has a terrace that is a good refuge for hot nights. Here the star is the product that you will find on a menu that is not too extensive but with very good quality proposals such as cod omelette, steak tartare or perol sausage gyozas.

I have felt very deeply the death of Marjane Satrapi, author of, among others, Persepolis, a fantastic graphic novel where she narrates her childhood in Iran. Through the panels, the author portrayed the radical change that the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the arrival to power of Ayatollah Khomeini represented, to the point that her family decided to send her to Europe so that she could live and grow up away from the repression that was experienced in her country. 

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the book Haiek Danak Sorginak (All of them witches) (All of them witches)), published by Ediciones Comisura, which reconstructs the witch hunts in the Basque Country. It does so based on the confessions of the accused women – midwives, gatherers, healers... – who under torture were forced to confess and accuse five more women. A raw but very necessary portrait of the horror these women had to live through. 

More proposals for plans and activities:

• What can you do this weekend
• Plans to do with children
• Series premiering this month
• Video games releasing this month
• What can you do in the Girona regions
• New restaurants to discover
• The castellera agenda