Critics are delirious about these 2 series of all new brand

Two all -brand streaming television series have just landed on Netflix and Apple TV +, which both have something in common that you do not see all this often: the scores of perfect criticism.

From an opulent culinary saga which takes place in Napoleonic France to a dramatic strongly observed on friendship, aging and emotional benefits, Lent (Apple TV +) and The four seasons (Netflix) Show how premium television series can go when narration, casting and crafts shoot all cylinders. And the 100% respective scores on rotten tomatoes that accompanied their two beginnings are an indication that they each have the criticisms that were pale – in a landscape of crowded content where these first remarkable are rare.

It doesn’t matter whether you are in the historical prestige or modern relational drama, this week’s streaming drop has just lifted the bar for 2025.

Before Gordon Ramsay, before Julia Child – there was Marie -Antoine Carême, the first famous leader in the world.

Apple TV + brings its story to a sumptuous life in LentA period drama so rich visually, you will have the impression of being able to taste almost what is on the screen. Located in 19th century France, the series mixes opulence, obsession and ambition, all with the meticulous flair of a chief of pastry. The criticisms praised its sumptuous production conception, its nuanced performance and its surprising emotional depth.

In addition: this new television series is not only a question of sauces and soufflés. He also incorporates espionage, palace policy and power games in the back room where the kitchen is just as cute as the battlefield. In other words, think The bear encounter Bourne identitysomehow.

This next new television series which also marked 100% on Rotten Tomatoes before its beginnings this week is the new Netflix comedy by Tina Fey that we presented in our Netflix look during the weekend.

Based on the 1981 film with the same name, it concerns a group of six old friends who go for a relaxing weekend. The shocking news that a couple in the group is about to separate everything. “During a year”, explains Netflix on the show which also features Will Forte and Steve Carell in addition to Fey, “we follow friends on four holidays and look at how this upheaval affects the dynamics of each – sending old problems and new bouillons on the surface.”

Addition of Fey, in a Netflix promotional interview: “I hope the public will feel like you are inside a large sweater with us, and also a dinner with us, and I hope that any joy and warmth that we feel all each other.”