AAfter having thought having reached the Eldorado at the time of the Big Bang of streaming, in the years 2010, the time when Netflix and Prime Video (a subsidiary of Amazon), soon joined by Apple TV+ and Disney, competed in creativity and audacity, the world of American series learned the laws of the market. From confinements to Hollywood strikes, capital movements in political earthquakes, decision -makers of platforms and studios have reappected to report to their shareholders rather than their creators.
On the screens, this results in a flowering of products made to reassure, made from “IP” (for intellectual properties, An expression that can designate a novel by Jane Austen as a video game brand) already familiar with the public.
This movement affects both cinema and series, but it seems that in Hollywood, the latter are better resisting standardization. While the biggest Hollywood success in theaters since the start of the year, Minecraft, Le Film, Coming from a video game, billions of minutes (this is how we measure the popularity of the series) have been, in recent months, devoted by hundreds of millions of spectators to three series, Adolescence, Severance et Andorwhose complex and demanding subjects and aesthetics are no longer used in multiplexes across the Atlantic.
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Adolescence, British ministry in four episodes and as many sequence plans, produced by Netflix and released in March, stages the murder of a teenager by one of her classmates and the replicas of this earthquake in the murderer’s family; Severance, of which the second season was posted online from January on Apple TV+, reinvents the business world in a dystopian mode, imagining a multinational which implants in the skull of its employees a device which erases from their conscience any notion of the outside world as soon as they arrive at their workplace; Andor, Finally, the second and last season of which is being broadcast on Disney+, uses the universe of Star Wars To very finely analyze the dialectic which unites and opposes a repressive system and the forces that seek to overthrow it.
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