We have to be at home, some working, others waiting for the storm to pass. In any case, We are going to have to kill our free time between four walls, no concerts, without theater, no museums and no movies on the big screen, That's why the entire AU team has decided to give you some recommendations that you can enjoy without going outside.. Daily, a collaborator of the magazine will propose a series, a web, a YouTube channel and a podcast with the idea of lightening up the confinement a little. When there is no loin...
SARAH MUT
Serie: Gentleman Jack (HBO). A BBC series created from Anne Lister's coded diaries, an adventurous landowner of overflowing charisma who in the first half of the 19th century defied all social convention in Halifax (Yorkshire, England) getting married (secretly) with a rich aristocrat from the area. He left his adventures in writing, also his “scandalous” amorous dalliances, in dozens of newspapers that were hidden behind a wall for many years so that today, already deciphered, we can admire his incredible bravery.
Web: 5W, an independent magazine that does not depend on advertising and is dedicated to explaining to us from 2015 —with a wide network of collaborators spread throughout Africa, America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East—what is happening in the world, with rigorous texts written in the field and graphic journalism of the highest quality that addresses the five classic questions of reporting: Who? (Who), That? (What), When? (When), Where? (Where) and why? (Why). There you have the five double vees!
Youtube: Weekly deformed. Isa Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer direct this late night theatrical in which they interview interesting figures of Spanish culture from a feminist prism. Figures like Eva Llorach have passed through her couch, Brigitte Vasallo, Christina Morales, Patricia Sornosa, Nacho Vigalondo, Juanjo Sáez or Cristina Fallarás, to talk about polyamory, of media, of violence against women and machismo in their respective industries. Do not expect thoughtful and incisive speeches and interviews because Calderón and Lijtmaer, although they are very, they are not for the work. They host the program with humor and freshness, without taking themselves too seriously, and defending contradictions.
Podcast: Raw Meat It is a radio program that has it all: some accurate and sharp political editorials, well-documented current information that escapes the prevailing current and always finds a new twist, literary recommendations, interviews key figures in politics and culture, environmental concern, feminist standards, fresh and conscientious film monographs, humor, a special look at the rural world… Both, has so much. We already know that without economic independence there is no free journalism, and that this, so that it is worthy and of quality, we must pay it, those of us who are nourished by it, neither politicians nor advertisers. So, listen to them, and if you like them... Become a Raw Meat producer!!
EVA PONS
Serie: The Morning Show (Apple TV+). The hurricane caused in his work environment by the accusations of sexual harassment against the host of a US morning show in the midst of #MeToo is the main plot of this series. Although it starts with little force, The series is gaining in interest and complexity.
Podcast: inside the pyramid, with Nacho Ares. After many years at the head of the program Be History, Nacho Ares has released a new podcast about his main passion: ancient egypt. For puzzle lovers and Egyptian geeks.
Youtube: Home. On YouTube you will find this feature film with an ecological background directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Aerial views of many places in the world to appreciate the beauty and variety of the Earth's landscape and the threat that human action poses to it.. It's already a few years old, but it's still very current.
Web: On the Prado Museum website (museodelprado.es) you can find a section with the initiative #pradocontigo, a program of online actions through its website and social networks during the time that the museum remains closed. Don't miss the RTVE documentary series titled 200. A night in the Prado, the radio program Paint me a myth, or the teaching resources available for the little ones.
GERARDO LEON
Serie: I am not one to recommend complete series because it seems to me that, in general, They are irremediably irregular products., so I am only enthusiastic about some cases and seasons.. In this sense I think that the first two seasons of Fargo, They seem like a first-class genre exercise to me.. Now it's on Movistar+ and they're going for the fourth.
Podcast: The jazz club. Created by your driver, the musician and journalist Carlos Pérez Cruz, I think it's one of the richest music podcasts I've ever heard.. Pérez Cruz makes a very generous and hard-working program, giving a very honest and passionate view of the incredible diversity of contemporary jazz. I like your interviews a lot, especially because Carlos Pérez Cruz's role as a musician allows him to investigate beyond what a conventional journalist would do.. I'm also going to keep your website, because I think it has improved a lot.
Youtube: I'll summarize it like this. To degrease the top. If your head is saturated with so much junk information, Come closer to this channel and you will feel how your neurons relax. Jorge Pinarello is an Argentine who dedicates himself in this space to making movie summaries., series and biographies of actors in a casual and very provocative tone. and you will say, What's the fun in summarizing a movie?? Well he has it, and a lot. The good thing about this channel is that, as you listen to it, you tune in with a series of winks that serve as identification between us and the person in charge. It is popular cinema and cult movies that you don't even imagine existed, but Pinarello manages to turn it around in a masterful way. At the moment you have 4,29 millions of well-deserved followers.
GLORIA POZUELO
Serie: The Letdown (Netflix). Australian comedy that tells the adventures of a new mother openly and with a lot of humor.
Podcast: Total Ideal Weekly Deformation. The feminist humor of Lucía Lijtmaer and Isa Calderón merges with their wonderful and inexhaustible literary recommendations, cinematographic and musical films on the radio at the Primavera Sound festival. They continue to broadcast these quarantine days.
Youtube: Los Prieto Flores. The authors of the book We are not only parents They interview characters of all kinds in their home. these days, your videos “Quarantine with children” y “Confined songs” They let us continue sneaking into their home to die of laughter.
DANI MATOSES (IMPRESSED)
Serie: The British series Fleabag (Amazon), for the freshness of the dialogues and the snide touch of the protagonist, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also writes and directs. Winner of several Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTAS
Web: This will pass (https://estopasara.wdc2022.com/). Collaborative platform for this COVID19 with proposals of all kinds.
Youtube: These days you can take the opportunity to watch the company's channel on a loop tricycle, it's the bomb! The little ones in the house will also fall in love with these three crazy people from silent theater.
JUNCAL CUESTA
Serie: Kidding (Showtime) is a comedy-drama starring Mr.. Pickles, an endearing man played by Jim Carrey. With the stories of the Pickles family you can cry and laugh in equal measure. 2×1 emotional essential for quarantine.
Web: In this case I stick with a classic: the virtual tour of the Prado Museum. Being at home is not a sufficient excuse not to discover some of the pictorial gems of this era of art.. In addition to the Prado, There are other museums that open their doors virtually (British Museum, Louvre…). Lack of time is no longer an excuse. And if you are left wanting more… Remember that every day there is less left to be able to visit them in person.
Podcast: Almighty. In difficult times, What better than having a laugh and a glass of wine.
Youtube: National Geographic. The closest thing to traveling that can be done from home. And much more economical!
EVA GARRIDO
Serie: The flower house (Netflix) is a Mexican comedy full of black humor about a wealthy family, apparently successful, dedicated body and soul to the family business (your flower shop), but behind its facade of perfection it hides great secrets. The best: the way it is told, very far from the North American structures that we are so accustomed to seeing, and that has even been labeled as a kind of soap opera millennial.
Web: We are cinema, the new platform online from RTVE in which you can watch more than 60 spanish movies. It has a very extensive catalog in which you can enjoy Goya award-winning films such as Champions (2019), The bride (2016) o The olive tree (2017), among other. The best: that now you can watch all those movies that you missed at the cinema and that you always had on your to-do list.
Podcast: Triunfagram, a platform more focused on those who are professionally dedicated to social networks, but it is full of tricks, interesting curiosities and recommendations to be a true crack on Instagram. The best: discover mobile applications with which you can entertain yourself for hours and hours doing things with your photos, your videos and your social networks to get the most out of them.
Youtube: German gramophone, the channel of one of the most internationally recognized classical music record labels. The best: their daily live shows on streaming during these days of confinement, with top-level artists playing from their homes.
WILLIE KAMINSKI
Serie: infiltrator office (Movistar+). A contemporary espionage series that deviates from Hollywood clichés. Probably one of the best French series so far: describes the secret activity of the French infiltrated agents in an intense way, complex and without falling into easy effects.
Web: Art TV in Spanish. The Franco-German channel also offers very interesting content in Spanish or with subtitles. You will find movies, programs and documentaries about art, culture, sociedad, policy, history or music. Don't miss the series about Charlotte Perriand or the program right now The Upside Down of Maps.
Youtube: Kwan Homsai. The delicious taste of Asia. Thai Kwan Homsai offers step-by-step Asian recipes, easy to follow and delicious. Don't skip classics like teriyaki chicken, sweet and sour pork or gyozas.
Podcast: Any past time was before, with Nieves Concostrina. To delve into history with the particular and fun perspective of Nieves Concostrina, that manages to treat any historical topic with a sense of humor and season it with curious facts. Hook.
XAVIER BENAVENT (TRY IT HERE)
If something has revealed this quarantine is that the spirit of ll (where there is a fire where you cook) it's inside the house. Congested by a world that moves faster than us, we had long since lost this concept of sight. From Tasta'l d'acci, with the philosophy of recovery of the Valencian gastronomic universe, we offer you the following recommendations: If you don't know the program Cooks and cooks from À Punt, you miss a tour of the entire Valencian geography to visit all the gurus of the Valencian bonfires. A program made with great care where the images and content will almost make you smell the kitchens of the best Valencian restaurateurs. Counter top kitchen is a radio magazine from À Punt that brings you closer, too, all the current Valencian gastronomic matters from the hand of Carles Galletero. Our web recommendation goes through the collective Archivist of the Horta, a platform that brings together the wealth of in-depth knowledge of many characters from the Valencian Garden and offers it to us as an archive, vehicle of knowledge, conservation and creation. As a last recommendation, to the YouTube platform, you can find, if you don't know them yet, the nine episodes of Burjassot for table, a series of videos in which we participated to give a voice to our neighbors, people from all over the world who showed us the most curious dishes of their gastronomy.
SOFIA TATAY
Web: Le Cinema Club is a film platform in streaming which screens a film every week for free. They are projections of a new generation of filmmakers, along with rare gems and other inspiring discoveries. The only thing I don't like is that it has the support of a brand, but the web design, content and projections are wonderful.
Web: the network Good Reads I discovered it recently, surely there are many people who already know her, but it fascinates me and I didn't want to stop naming it. very useful. It helps you discover new books and authors, makes recommendations and reviews, and you can follow what your friends are reading.
SAINTS LEMOINE (THE BATHYSPHERE)
Serie: The Leftovers (HBO). A series that explores the ways in which humanity is trying to adjust to the consequences of the sudden disappearance of the 2% of the world population. Excellent for keeping perspective these days.
Web: Radiooooo. Are you fed up with your records? Choose a country, a decade, y ¡voila!
Youtube: Blank on Blank – Short interviews with writers, musicians, and other creators. Very lively.
Podcast: Ambulante Radio – Stories that tell the realities of Latin America, necessary stories, entertaining and very well researched.
VICENTE CASAÑA
Serie: The New Pope (HBO), a great series, continuation of The Young Pope, directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The Italian director, who previously directed The great beauty, He takes us on a visit to the jaws of the Vatican with his particular vision loaded with beautiful images and shocking moments, and with a gallery of more than divine characters.
Web: Website of the graphic design director and photographer Liam Wong where we can admire part of his works, in which he captures the fullness of Tokyo's nighttime beauty through his camera. With its unique way of processing colors, This photographer recreates a universe of the city very similar to that of Blade Runner.
YouTube: KEXP-FM. Seattle radio station channel specializing in alternative music and indie, where we can see exclusive concerts of the best bands of the moment.
Podcast: No Such Thing as a Fish it's a podcast British produced and presented by the researchers behind QI, the famous BBC television program. Every week they introduce a topic and develop and add news and curiosities about it.. A fun and educational program that, above all, It can help us improve English vocabulary.
ANTONIO HERNANDEZ (BLACK PAW)
Serie: The Murdoch mysteries (Paramount). Crime and mystery series whose protagonists, Detective William Murdoch and Coroner Julia Ogden, They solve murders and disappearances with the help of their intuition and using the incipient scientific discoveries of the dawn of the 20th century in Toronto (Canada). Unpretentious series, easy to follow and that you can watch in individual chapters or follow them from the beginning.
Podcast: Mixcloud Citicen Freak, they Steak Bang Pow. Freak Beat music selection, disaster drawer where the most soulful pop comes in 60, French ye-yé, something psychedelia, garage e, even, dance rhythms of the 90 with sixties inspiration. Ideal for listening to a variety of songs while you prepare food or have a private party at home..
Web: To the Palate. Cooking website with an immense variety of recipes for all audiences and all levels. Well explained and with very accessible language. In all recipes, common ingredients and procedures are used and are within the reach of both the expert and the amateur..
YouTube: The Foodie. Channel directed by Mikel Lopez Iturriaga that covers everything related to food, from the most famous recipes, going through the analysis of the products used, market products and even entering restaurants to get a critical and personal point of view.
LUCAS SÁEZ
Serie: Years and Years (HBO). It is one of those series of few chapters in which each one of them corresponds to one year from the current moment. (2019). One of the reference series that helps us reflect on different facets of our society and the future that is already subtly knocking on the door..
Web: Radio Garden. A simple and effective website to listen to FM radio stations from all over the world. Thanks to the map that is displayed, we can take a sound trip around the globe, discovering that there are many ways to travel.
YouTube: Miss Tagless. A channel in Valencia led by a youtuber that deals with current and fresh topics every Monday. A good way to prepare for the mitjà :)
Podcast: On the Other Side of the Mirror (AOLDE) A weekly podcast lasting more than two hours in which different aspects related to the world of diving and the sea are discussed.. It is a perfect plan to go out to the beach virtually these days. From 2016 I collaborate in a section titled, “The conspiracy of the wrecks”, with a nod to the work of John Kennedy Toole and in which we discuss the latest developments in underwater archeology on the international scene. We also talk about ecology, biodiversity, navigation, diver health… Although it is on multiple podcast platforms, perhaps the most convenient way is through iVoox.
MARÍA DE QUESADA
Serie: Impossible to choose one. First, a classic of English humor that makes me laugh on the worst day of the year: The It crowd (Netfilx). After, a British trilogy of independent yet interrelated series that go FAR beyond sex: Cucumber, banana y tofu.
Web: Wonderful Sourced Coffee from a Local Company D Origen Coffee Roasters (with micro toaster in Altea), al 20% in times of coronavirus #MeQuedoEnCasaConBuenCafé
YouTube: In our family we are fans of The dad lab and for Menuts it is the most.
Podcast: Yoga is dead. Critical conversations to shed light on oppressed perspectives and expose how anyone who is not in the community feels. “most” of the yoga industry that is sold today on Instagram: impossible positions for him 90 % of the population and catwalk bodies of Paris 0,1 % of the same population.
JUAN CARLOS (TOXICOSMOS)
Serie: High Maintenance (HBO). From the HBO platform you can watch this series about a drug distributor at home in New York, in which the main character simply serves as a link to discover the lives of different inhabitants of the city. An original series, short and very entertaining chapters, in which you will really get into the life of ordinary New Yorkers. There are three complete seasons so far and the fourth is currently airing.
Youtube: Intimate concerts from a corner, surrounded by books, discos, various dolls and bric-a-brac, organized from the station NPR Music under the name Tiny Desk Concerts, with perfect acoustics and an impressive good vibe. Noah and the Whale, Superorganism, Foster the People, Adele or Coldplay have already been there, but there are many more to discover. Ojo, which is nothing new and these concerts have been going on for a long time. 12 years but they do not stop surprising us and it is being one of the best entertainment these days.
Podcast: Can I take it home?? Well, let me personally recommend my favorite songs from my own space.: Toxicosmos. You have me on your favorite podcast platform like Spotify, iVoox, iTunes or Google Podcasts and every week I offer you news and premieres from the international music scene. For two hours we will review all the current events of independent pop and now that we have the radio closed and we cannot record new programs, it is a good time to recover all those broadcast and that you have available on demand.. Find me and we'll tune in.
JAIME ORTEGA (PER-R-UCHO)
Web: Tarkovsky Open Culture It is a website that indexes content with licenses suitable for consumption online. Luckily, Mosfilm, who holds the rights to Tarkorvki's Soviet films, allows viewing online. Tarkovsky, although it has a reputation as a pain, it's a total crack, creates cinema that stays on your retina, If you are not already a fan, this is the time to give it a try.. I recommend starting with The mirror, and I think it's not a bad idea to see her on the loose, even at the risk of some movie buff hating me for saying this. For the rest, Openculture has a lot of interesting resources that can fill you up for quite a few hours..
Other Web: Internet archive. Hours and hours of fun in the WWW global repository. When your head is about to explode, take a look at wayback machine.
Youtube: Cosmos, the popular science documentary series written by Carl Sagan. Even if you are tempted by remake de Neil deGrasse Tyson, the original has that unforgettable eighties aura that makes it infinitely more intense.
Something else to see in Youtube: Those of us who were not lucky enough to see Led Zeppelin in life can get a general idea of what they meant for the planet in the unclassifiable film, The song remains the same (1976). A kind of monstrosity where the most sublime and the most disgusting shake hands. Some funny special effects mixed with the most powerful music of all time. After seeing it you won't be able to help but search through your dusty vinyl records.
TERELO
Serie: Flight of the conchords (HBO). For music lovers who love music and humor. The story of two New Zealand musicians trying to find a place in the New York music scene. In the style of other series like The Office o the IT Crowd (which I also recommend). Nothing better than a little humor to escape from the current situation.
Web: Medium. A window to the world and its knowledge with “à la carte” content. Articles on any topic of interest, current and written by experts in each subject or compiled from reliable and rigorous sources. It allows you to make an initial selection of the topics that interest you and thus receive a newsletter with various texts and articles. It is in English and in the free version you can only see limited content per month. They also have an app for mobile devices and tablets..
Youtube: Great Big Story. Channel with short films that include curiosities about the most unpublished things: inventions, video games, famous and not so famous people. Big, peculiar and unknown stories that have emerged throughout history around the world. Historical and popular culture content. They are in English.
Podcast: The drawing club. For illustration lovers: a podcast about the world of illustration and the profession of cartoonist that is also done, from Valencia by Andrés Sanchís. Interviews and information told in first person by professionals, teachers and all those who are in some way related to this discipline.
G.T.
Serie: To the fish (Movistar Plus) is a Spanish production series created by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos (The Minimum Island), set in 16th century Seville. The magnificent art direction and the careful photography make us teleport to the door to the new world and its luxurious palaces with suburbs, the unhealthy shanty towns next to the river, markets full of people, smells and flavors… And travel through history in these times of confinement, always appreciated.
Web: territoriaccio.com. It is the resistors that, throughout history, they have allowed humanity to break the chains and injustices of the past. Territory of Action is a documentary map of resistances in Valencian territory, a project of Solar Productions System which has six audiovisual shorts portraying different mobilizations. The idea is to get closer to the protagonists of the stories and their real context, spread various needs of Valencian society and give voice to the struggles. They are local stories, but of which we will find many similarities in each city, people and territory of the world.
YouTube: Xuan Lan Yoga. Whether you have never dared to practice yoga or if you are a master yogi, This channel has all types of content adapted to all needs: classes of 5 a 75 minutes for beginners, for specific ailments, routine, challenges and tips. Xuan Lan, the channel host, of Vietnamese origin, explains everything with patience and affection. Highly recommended to practice yoga at home and enjoy all its benefits.
FEDE FERNANDEZ
Serie: Parks and recreation. What was initially proposed as a spin-off from the American version of the series The Office, eventually became a sitcom independent with own identity. Filmed as a mockumentary, This comedy takes place between the offices of the Parks and Recreation department of a fictional town in Indiana., where your deputy director, between optimism and juggling, pulls his strings on his way to the White House. His apparent innocence does not hide his criticism of the American political system., Not in vain do their producers claim The Wire as one of his main influences. After seven seasons, so everyday and so absurd, you end up missing her.
Youtube: One Got Fat is a terrifying short film about bicycle road safety education filmed in 1963. Starring children with monkey faces and tails, reveals to us the recklessness that each of its protagonists commits on their group trip to the park for a picnic. Listed as a black comedy, is a rare and creepy example of an educational video from the time. Because of the color of the film, its iconic images and lack of copyright, despite having authorship, has become the basis for video clips from important groups such as Dr. Dog, Boards of Canada y, above all, Phantogram, where his song “Bloody palms” comes into perfect conjunction with this wonderful video.
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One Got Fat 1963 Bycicle Safety
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Youtube: Music Radar Clan It is a musical dissemination channel more focused on the history of music and its groups in the last seventy years. Victor, its creator, defines the channel as “what you probably don't know about the music you listen to”, perfect definition of why you should follow his channel. With a sober and calm style, It is a pleasure to listen to this true musical encyclopedia.
Web: Internet Movie Cars Data Base. Sometimes I get the idea that there are no longer people for everything., that we follow standardized stereotypes that work and we have become more homogeneous as a species. Until you see web pages like this. An entire record of images of vehicles that appear in movies, sorted by makes and models. Not suitable for motor lovers or movie lovers. Overwhelming as well as… curious?
CARLES PLAS
series: I recommend the series It never snows in Ciutat (IB3). It is a series produced by the television of the Balearic Islands (IB3) about a group of young millennials with very current problems, but several, who fight for (about)live in a world that demands a lot from them and gives them little back. Stories in which we can recognize ourselves from a universal perspective, but also local. You can see it on the IB3 web portal, a TV3 in a Filmin.
I might also recommend the series Pop fast (TV3). It is a TV3 series that narrates the experiences of a group of friends who are always in a pub/concert hall in Barcelona. It makes a scathing and comical critique of the environment hipster and posture of Barcelona in the first decade of the 21st century. Each chapter includes a live musical performance by prominent groups on the scene indie Catalan, Julio Bustamante appears there! You can see it on the TV3 web portal.
Web: the docu-web Catacombs, of the first documentaries that were made in that format. Take a tour of the catacombs of Paris with the people who know them best. The director is from Valencia (of Benimaclet, of Tropical Valencia).
Youtube: I would recommend the channel of Kilian Jornet or that of Germans For, who are alpinists and climbers, or that of Michael Montoro, the Mallorcan boy who works the land and the animals and disseminates popular knowledge.
Podcast: Cinestèsia, a Godella Radio program about cinema and series. O Delicatessen, an iCat program about music, in which the quality and the more emotional side of the musical production prevails. Also just launched Chronicles of isolation in In Punt, that looks very good.
SANDRA ESCAMILLA
Serie: Inside number 9 (of the movie), a cult British series created, written by and starring Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, loaded with black humor in the purest English style and which has served as inspiration for the series Dracula and to the movie Vivarium.
Web: The Spanish Film Archive launches through its channel on-line on Vimeo the project “I browned at home”where you will carry out a stable programming in streaming from a series of films restored by his team. To open this proposal they present 90 minutes (1949) by Antonio del Amo, restored by the Filmoteca in 2018.
YouTube: Guernica 3D by Lena Gieseke. A three-dimensional walk through the interior of Picasso's most universal painting, accompanied by the song Nana by Manuel de Falla. Three minutes of highly recommended abstraction.
Podcast: The boys of camp krypton they throw, biweekly, a podcast where they delve into different pop culture topics that we can find in the world of cinema, from the comic, the series, music or television. Through a fun vision, Viruete, Armabot, Whom, MAT y B. Sánchez debate and report on topics ranging from mainstream, even the most bizarre of our audiovisual culture.
BRUNO LAURENT (THE IFV SOUND LIBRARY)
Serie: Six feet under (HBO), one of the first series of the new generation, broadcast by HBO from 2001 al 2005, the story of a family that works in a funeral home with a brutal development of the characters throughout the five seasons and a very particular sense of humor. And probably the best end of a series.
Web: Well, it's not exactly a website, but it's a web-radio called Radio Meuhhhh. she is french, is independent, can be heard all over the world and is full of groove, disco music, of funk, of soul. It is a great pass and a great source of discoveries.
YouTube: Fils Cara “Nanna”. This video is the first part of a triptych. then, it is ok to include the following two videos, “Backlight” i “Stork”. They are vertical videos to watch on mobile, three pepites visuals that we can look at like a work of art in the music video museum.
MARCOS MOLINERO
Serie: How I meet your mother (Netflix): The ideal guide to live life without it ending us. Better than any self-help book.
Web: europavox.com. The perfect website to travel through the best music from all over Europe and at the same time review English.
YouTube: Jaime Altozano. Thanks to this musicologist/ youtuber You will discover hundreds of secrets from the world of music, entertaining to the fullest..
Podcast: nobody knows anything. Completely improvised comedy program with Berto Romero and Andreu Buenafuente where they distribute samanté left and right. The real junkyards of humor.
INÉS LUJÁN
Serie: A series not, two best: House of Cards y Mad Men. It is the perfect time to get hooked on the great plots of these cult series. House of Cards (Netfilx) teaches American politics from the inside, with incredible ins and outs that have later been surpassed by current events. Mad Men (HBO) is about the day-to-day life in a New York advertising agency in the years 60, It is the series “in which nothing happens” (or that's what they accuse her of) but to which everyone gets hooked.
Web: In The New Yorker You will find in-depth reports from excellent journalists on current affairs and also history. Besides, now, free!
Youtube: Data Center. Every Nintendo game ever played from start to finish. There are no excuses for not recovering the console and, at last, pass all the games.
