On Sky Atlantic the second season of “The White Lotus” (episodes available weekly on Now): Born in 2021 as a six-episode miniseries, developed by veteran Mike Whitehad great success overseas that led it to win ten Emmy awards and become an anthology show, with each year set in a different location of the eponymous, luxurious resort.
This time we are in Sicily, with the White Lotus managed by Sabrina Impacciatore and a new group of variably, and comically, desperate characters, against the backdrop of another revelatory summer. A stage, the summer one, which is well suited to act as an amplifier of moods, topical moments, crucial life passages in bildungsromans or within thriller frames that exploit the holiday context to create even more paradoxical situations.
TV series set on vacation
“Cruel Summer” – Prime Video
“Summertime” – Netflix
“Summer in your eyes” – Prime Video
“Summer Camp Island – The fantastic campsite” – Now, Disney+
“American Horror Story 1984” – Disney+
“The A List” – Netflix
“Gravity Falls” – Disney+
Cruel Summer
90s: in the span of three summers (1993, 1994 and 1995), the life ofawkward nerd Jeannette Turner (Chiara Aurelia) changes radically when she transforms first into a queen bee admired by the crowds, then into the most hated person in america, because accused of having witnessed the abduction of popular teenager Kate (Olivia Holt) and having done nothing to prevent it. Series created in 2021 for Freeform from Bert V. Royal and produced by Jessica Biel.
On Prime Videos
Summertime
Freely inspired by Federico Moccia’s teen novel “Three meters above the sky”, a literary phenomenon from 2004, the series directed by Francesco Lagi and Lorenzo Sportiello follows the sentimental vicissitudesfrom June to August for three years (2020-2022), of the student Summer (Coco Rebecca Enogamhe) who falls in love with the biker Ale (Ludovico Tersigni), despite being from opposite universes, as their respective best friends Sofia (Amanda Bell) And Darius (Andrea Lattanzi) run into further heart trouble.
On Netflix
Summer in your eyes
Also based on a triptych of novels, written by Jenny Hanauthor of another successful trilogy – “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”, adapted by Netflix – the show released last June by Prime Video (and already renewed for a second season) focuses on the love triangle which involves Belly (Lola Tung) and his childhood friendsJeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) And Conrad (Christopher Briney), at whose home the girl usually spends her summer holidays every year.
On Prime Videos
Summer Camp Island – The fantastic campsite
There is no more delicious surprise, though the elephant Oscar Peltzer and the hedgehog Wrento discover that the summer camp where their parents leave them to spend their holidays is actually the home of the little people, frequented by bizarre enchanted creatures and location of adventurous events. Young witches keep watch over the field, the horses become unicorns, the cabins are haunted and during the day you meet monsters, yetis and talking sharks, in this tender Cartoon Network series which already boasts six seasonsdeveloped by 2018 onwards by the animator Julia Pott based on his short film presented at the Sundance Film Festival.
On Now, Disney+
American Horror Story: 1984
In the ninth season (2019) of longevity horror anthology series created by the prolific Ryan Murphyfive friends fleeing Los Angeles are hired as consultants at Camp Redwood in the summer of 1984. However, the place has in the past been scene of disturbing eventsand bloodstained mysteries will soon torment the group of protagonists, for their part bearers of unmentionable secrets. In the cast, faces familiar to aficionados of Murphy’s work: Emma Roberts, Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe And John Carroll Lynch.
On Disney+
The A List
Another summer camp, a different kind of headache: on Peregrine Island, not exactly the destination of her dreams, the young woman My (Lisa Ambalavanar) sharpen your claws to win the popularity contest against the rival Amber (Ellie Duckles), mysterious and fascinating, which threatens to steal the scepter of queen of the field. However, the girl has not come to terms with the dangerous supernatural powers of her age. Teen drama, horrific atmospheres And suspense progressive mingle in this British thriller TV show created in 2018 from Nina Metivier And Dan Berlinkaproduced by the BBC and distributed by Netflix.
On Netflix
Gravity Falls
This surreal cartoon, winner of the prestigious Annie Award and lasted, has recently celebrated ten years since its birth two seasons (2012-2016): Written by the American animator, storyboarder, author and producer Alex Hirschis a light-hearted comedy that follows the misadventures of the twelve-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel, who, sent to spend the holidays with their great-uncle in the strange little town of Oregon Gravity Falls, they discover that the place is teeming with supernatural beings and is scene of paranormal incidents which the two decide to investigate.
