Don’t know what to see? Choose from our list of mini-series you can watch in a few hours of flight. Happy Holidays!
“What does Olivia know?”
Duration: 1 season, 3 hours 59 minutes
Cast: Frances McDormand (60), Richard Jenkins (71)
The series covers the nearly 25-year life of the family of an elderly teacher Olivia, her husband Henry, and a young son, Kitteridge. Starring Frances McDormand, star of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. There are only four (very dramatic) episodes.
“Big Little Lies”
Duration: 2 seasons, 14 hours
Cast: Reese Witherspoon (42), Nicole Kidman (50), Zoe Kravitz (29)
The main hit movie of 2017, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty (50). The plot is unusual: A murder occurs at a charity ball at a school, but the victim’s name is not revealed to viewers until the final episode. We are told about five families whose children went to the same class a few months before the incident. All of these families are mysteriously linked to the murder. Now, by the way, the shooting of the second season is underway – we’ll see next summer on vacation.
“Night Manager”
Duration: 1 season, 5 hours 58 minutes
Cast: Tom Hiddleston (37), Hugh Laurie (59)
The night manager of a European hotel is hired by the secret service – he must be in a crime syndicate that sells weapons. Meanwhile, the first episode of the second season aired in January.
“Above the Lake”
Duration: 2 seasons, 5 hours
Cast: Elisabeth Moss (35), Peter Mullan (58)
The show has two short seasons. This is the story of a detective named Robin Griffin who investigates mysterious crimes. Elisabeth Moss, the actress of The Handmaid’s Tale, plays the lead role in the series.
“True Detective”
Duration: 3 seasons, 24 hours
Cast: Matthew McConaughey (48), Colin Farrell (42), Rachel McAdams (39), Mahershala Ali (45)
You can download all three seasons (they’re not linked in any way) and watch them back and forth along the way. The first season features a serial maniac (Matthew McConaughey catches him), the second the disappearance of the head of the city government, being taken over by the hero Rachel McAdams, and the third the mysterious disappearance of the children (Mahershala Ali). researches).
“Escape from the Master”
Duration: 1 season, 3 hours
Cast: David Tennant (47), Sophie Okonedo (49)
Successful lawyer Will Burton has not lost a single case in his career. Once he justified the main suspect in a brutal crime, and a few weeks later it turns out that with his help a serial killer was released. The lawyer feels guilty and joins the investigation.
“The Great Train Robbery”
Duration: 1 season, 3 hours
Cast: Robert Glenister (58), Luke Evans (39)
The popular BBC series is a reenactment of the famous robbery of the night mail train from Glasgow to London on 8 August 1963.
“black mirror”
Duration: 5 seasons, 14 hours 20 minutes
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya (29), Alice Eve (36)
A big plus of this series is that the series (a little over an hour each) is not plot-related in any way, so you can watch it from anywhere. The series chronicles the lives of people in the age of technology (viewers on the Web believe that many things can be prophetic).
“Spy”
Duration: 1 season, 5 hours 20 minutes
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen (48)
A drama about Eli Cohen (this is a true story), an intelligence officer who lived in Damascus in the 60s, swung around in government circles and even managed to become an adviser to the Syrian President.
Source: People Talk
