The World Cup in Qatar is exciting for all soccer fans, but even those who aren’t into the royal sport have plenty to watch on TV. And the lucky ones who have two TVs at home have something to advise their wives…

“Noel’s Diary / Noel’s Diary”

A somewhat weepy 100-minute melodrama, but touching and comforting. Jake Turner, a successful writer, returns to his birth mother in Connecticut after her death.

He discovers that she has become an avid collector of all kinds of objects, but extremely neat ones, and finds among the countless things the diary of an unknown person.

This is a young woman who pours out her worries on the pages of a diary. In front of the house is the charming Rachel, who is there in search of her mother, who was the author of the diary.

Even though Rachel is engaged, a spark sparks between them on their way to the even more estranged home of Jake’s father to try to find out about Rachel’s mother.

The roads are covered in snow, as is the city of Maple Falls. The festive atmosphere and the time spent together describe their happy future. It is touching for the sentimental viewer, even if the innocent bridegroom is dumped in the snow.

Despite its recent release, the film is in the Top 10 in 76 countries, most of them at #1 (as in Romania) or #2.

“Wednesday”

The eight-episode series brings us back to the Addams family. It’s for teenagers, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s another chorus from Gossip Girl, The Adventures of Sabrina or I Don’t Like It.

Cheeky Wednesday (only in America he can call a girl “Wednesday”; hundreds of years ago Robinson Crusoe had reasons to christen his native “Friday”) Addams, smart and mocking, is sent to Nevermore Academy, a strange school, where he wants to master his mental abilities to stop rampant crime among the residents of a New England town and solve a supernatural mystery that tormented his family 25 years ago. He makes friends, but also enemies, but most of all he is in love with the “beauty queen” among his classmates at a private school.

8.6/10 on IMDb, a fun and funny teen series about the supernatural. It is not surprising that in one day it climbed to the top of the charts in 85 countries (of course, also in Romania). Photo: Dreamtime

Sources: The New York Times, Flix Patrol