Since Apple put the batteries with its streaming platform, we can see very interesting productions, with high level actors, and that record scenes that we can only visualize on Apple TV+, among which we find the one we will analyze today.
And is that Ben Stiller, After withdrawing from the role of Severance director, he will return to work for Apple In a new series called The Off Weeks. And we already know that when this actor chooses something like that, it is because he believes he will succeed, something that usually happens.
New Ben Stiller series
Ben Stiller returns to the screen in a limited series of eight episodes entitled The Off Weeks. He plays a writing teacher who is going through a divorce and, at least expected, a relationship with Stella West (Jessica Chastain) begins. In the series we will have moments of humor with more intimate and painful scenes, since the life of the protagonist is fraying while trying to rebuild it.
Stiller, who in recent years has moved a lot behind the cameras, recovers here the prominence in front of her. Its seal, Red Hour, produces the project, so it is a job in which it has a lot of creative control. Even so, There is no filming or confirmed premiere date. For now it is an announcement that has already generated interest, especially for the Stiller -Bastain Union, but that could take to arrive.
If your name for Severance sounds, you are not disenchanted, since Stiller was a key piece in that series as a producer and director. For the third season of Severance he has said that he does not expect to direct episodes, but he will continue to support the project as an executive producer and contributing ideas, although possibly it sounds more like an actor, which is where we see their face, and it does not fall short in their career.
In the background, what Apple proposes here is another story that Drama and comedy mixturewith two actors who know how to fill the screen. We will have to wait to see if the plot really hooks, but the idea of a guy who tries to start from scratch while everything around him staggers looks like a lot of play and very close characters. Who knows, we have several seasons if it is expected.
The Off Weeks does not paint as a series that comes out and forgets. Ben Stiller returns to act with a paper that has left as a ring: a normal guy, half broken inside, but that moves forward as he can. And with Jessica Chastain in the cast, obvious that expectations are lifted. The thing is to see if it stays in comedy with a little drama or if it really gets awkward. What is almost certain is that it will give what to talk about when it comes out.
And you, do you want to see it, or do you think expectations, due to the protagonists, are greater than we will really see? Leave us a comment with your opinion.
