I have had a good winter with series I must admit. Not always this is the case as sometomes this is really searching for what you want to watch endlessle scrolling through lists to se if this is actually what you want to watch.
Luckily there was a lot of success this year and also this spring with seasons like 'the Last of Us' coming back, it was a breeze in finding stuff. Better said...I had stuff waiting also because I was away so much that there wasn't even time to watch stuff (which I love of course, because watching series is literally a background thing for me to do, and I really do not want this to be some kind of prime task of the day)
Next to all of these cool things to watch, sometimes there are also the hit and misses in there. This week I ran into one of of those series. IMDB and rotten tomatoes had a nice opinion about this one, but for me this one was absolute junk getting weirder and weirder by the episode.
Spoiler alert ahead: Yes I will spoil a lot of details about this series, also so that you don't have to watch it because I threw away my time already doing that. So this is on your own advice if you want to continue to read about this series and know what is going on and decide that you want to spend you time better or scroll away and watch this yourself.
The Plot
As mentioned before, don't scroll down below here if you don't want to know what is going on in this series. First thing to know, this series has its story in Argentinia and so the series is in Spanish.
Fine by me, actually often this give something else to the series as you have to pay full attention because of the language.
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So on a random evening in a town in Argentinia snow starts to fall which is weird because there is never snow in this region. A couple of friends are playing cards and they see that while the snow falls that people outside are dropping like flies when they are touched by the snow.
Also fireballs are falling out of the sky and all of this seems weird but these guys are not entirely freaked out. One of them has his daughter in town and he decides to go and look for her while is covered and wearing a gasmask so the snow doesn't touch him.
Up until this point: Honestly a very strong opening. You are curious on what is the story about the snow and the fireballs and you want to see if this guys finds his daughter back. Up until this point..so far so good and I was ready to continue watching.
The Bugs
When heading into town this guys sees so many weird things. Apart from the snow that kills people and that there is no electricity possible anywhere only on very old stuff, he is also attacked by these gigantic bigs that look like cockroaches what are gigantic and kill and absorb everything.
Epic fail number one. The suspense was good on the first episodes because you had no idea on what was going on, but when these giant cucarachas come on in, that is when it starts to get weird.
In scary stuff, maybe you should not show the monster if you are not capable of making it scary enough. It shouldn't be about the monster, it should be about what it does to the psych and to the humans.
Sure the bugs are scary and they demolish everything but at this point the story gets a bit too weird. All kinds of people become involved in the story with not a lot of backline so you don't really remember who is who and the plot also starts to get thinner and thinner.
At a certain point the idea of heading towards an island changes to a shooting in a harbour malls, that changes into we are heading into town with a train, that changes into people are turning over to the dark side.
I was trying to pay attention but the story had literally lost me. The characters had no cohesion anymore with each other which they did have in the first episodes. Not that often this happens to me on a show but the Eternaut had lost be there.
At the end of the series which of course has an open ending that could be able to lead to season 2 I literally slammed my laptop and said out loud
'Well, who will pay for season 2 and who knows what will happen. It sure as hell ain't me, because these last episodes were failure on failure'
I wonder what the people who saw this series as well thought about it?