OCS: The best series to watch

OCS, short for Orange Cinema Series, is a VOD service created in 2008. The platform is particularly popular with series fans as it streams series from HBO, AMC, MGM, Sony Pictures Television and TBS. Most new series air on VOST just 24 hours after they air in the United States.

With the arrival of the HBO Max platform in France, the agreement between HBO and OCS should not be renewed. As such, this deal should potentially expire at the end of 2022. It’s time to watch all the HBO series before it’s too late!

To read : Netflix: The 10 best TV shows in the catalog

Shows may disappear from the OCS platform due to broadcast rights, as the deal with HBO shows. New series are also coming regularly. If your favorite show from OCS isn’t in these top 10, feel free to let us know in the comments why we should include it.

game of Thrones

This is definitely the biggest proof of this summit, because the THE series that has unleashed passions in recent years. Last season may have disappointed fans, but it remains a monument to recent pop culture. If you haven’t had enough of this series yet, it’s time to catch up and watch all 8 seasons at once. Adapting the novels of George RR Martin, this great epic is famous for its unexpected and dramatic twists. Winter is coming!

• will be booked for : Heroic Fantasy fans and great epics
• cherry on cake : purple wedding part

Walking Dead

Another cult series that captivated for its eleven seasons. We follow Rick Grimes, who comes out of a coma to discover that the entire planet has been polluted and now populated by the undead. To succeed in getting out of this, we will need to organize ourselves as a group. Unfortunately, he will soon discover that the zombies are not the main threat in his quest for survival.

• will be booked for : fans of zombie and apocalyptic movies
• Icing on the cake : Daryl’s charismatic character

Irma Vep

Of course, there are also newly released TV series in OCS. Irma Vep is an 8-episode 1-hour mini-series currently airing, created by French director Olivier Assayas. This is a remake of the 1996 movie Irma Vep by the same director, Olivier Assayas. Irma Vep is an anagram of The Vampire because this movie told the chaotic shooting story of the 1915 release of Les Vampires, then directed by Louis Feuillade. Starring Alicia Vikander, this series mainly describes contemporary cinema and its excesses, with plenty of self-mockery.

• will be booked for : movie fans
• cherry on cake : Alicia Vikander as the breathtaking Maggie Cheung

The Handmaid’s Tale: The Red Maid

This series is an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel. It describes a dystopian world where the drastic decline in the fertility rate has allowed the “Sons of Jacob”, a fundamentalist religious sect, to seize power and impose strict rules. and completely arbitrary rules. Despite herself, we follow the fate of June Osbourne, a maid whose sole function is to get pregnant and allow a distinguished couple to have children. The Handmaid’s Tale, which is very difficult and very fair, is a work that does not leave anyone indifferent.

• will be booked for : dystopia fans
• Icing on the cake : remarkable performance of Elisabeth Moss in the lead role

Subrogation

Do you dream of wealth and success? You may change your mind after watching the first 3 seasons of Succession. Logan Roy is the chairman of a major media conglomerate in the United States. As she got older, she announced she wanted to leave her place, and who better to replace her than her own son Kendall? But as he continues to cling to his fatherly duty, a real brutal war will break out in this billionaire family.

• will be booked for : series fans interested in power and its excesses
• Icing on the cake : Kieran Culkin, Macaulay Culkin’s younger brother and crazy character

euphoria

Produced by rapper Drake, this series shows us the turbulent lives of young American high school students of Generation Z. The search for identity, the power of social networks, addictions, traumas… The emerging themes are handled very strongly and with great accuracy. The series is particularly appreciated for its artistic direction and talented young actors, including main actress Zendaya.

• will be booked for : Over 16 years old!
• Icing on the cake : explosive duo Zendaya and Hunter Schafer

western world

Imagine a Wild West themed amusement park populated by ultra-realistic androids. Imagine being able to go to this park and do whatever you want without any consequences. You can freely satisfy your wildest fantasies or succumb to your darkest impulses. How would you behave? But everything goes wrong when a few androids begin to realize their plight. Season 4 arrives on OCS on June 27.

• will be booked for : shock concept buffs
• Icing on the cake : The first season is particularly successful

Silicon valley

To round out these top 10 of the best OCS franchises, here’s a comic book series: Silicon Valley. We follow a team of 5 geeks with one dream: to create the new successful startup. But in this highly competitive world, having a great idea and technical skills isn’t enough. Our 5 crazy programmers are not the end of their troubles!

• will be booked for : Big Bang Theory fans
• Icing on the cake : 5 players and their funny characters

Chernobyl

This mini-series traces the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986 with terrifying realism. We are watching the explosion of the reactor and its consequences for the factory workers and residents. We also explore the consequences of this disaster and all efforts to limit the consequences of this dramatic accident. A touching and very realistic series that allows us to gauge the magnitude of this event and the dire fate of the people directly affected.

• will be booked for : those who like realistic and difficult series
• Icing on the cake : Aesthetics and realism of staging

watch men

To wrap up this top 10 OCS series, here is a mini-series that is little known in France but remains one of the best series in the HBO and OCS catalogue. Watchmen is a series inspired by the comic book of the same name. It takes its own universe and transfers it to our contemporary world, where a group of white supremacists attack police and their families during a “sleepless night”. After this incident, the cops all wear yellow ski masks to work in disguise. However, after 3 years, the group behind the attack can return…

• will be booked for : superhero lovers with a more modern and realistic approach
• Icing on the cake : The series was created by Damon Lindelof at the start of the already incredible The Leftovers.

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