Ricardo Darín stars in this adaptation of Héctor Oesterheld’s work launched in 1957
We already have a new series on the list of the best of 2025: The Eternaluta. Starring Ricardo Darín, Argentine fiction moves us to a Buenos Aires in which a strange snow covers everything and kills anyone who touches the flakes. Hundreds of bodies gathered in the streets while a group of friends who had gathered to play the trick try to survive by joining strength.
We are not with Rodeos, Alejandro G. Calvo assures in his new video criticism that The Eternaluta He has fascinated him. It is an analysis without ‘spoilers’ because the critic and ‘Publisher’ of Sensacine already warns that it is best to enjoy the series without knowing details. “The surprise, above all, how the series is opening to horror is much more shocking,” he warns.
It is about the adaptation of a comic created by Héctor Germán Oesterheld that began to be published in 1957 and that is a classic absolute science fiction, both in his native Argentina and in the rest of the world. For years, it was the great dream of director Adolfo Aristarain, but the project became unfeasible for the excessive budget. In 2008 Lucrecia Martel confirmed that she was working in a film, but a year later she moved away from the production of conflicts with the Oesterheld family.
Now, Netflix has managed to bring this work to the small screen after several failed attempts and has done it with Ricardo Darín in the main role. “The Great, The Huge Ricardo Darín. I am Ultra Fan of Ricardo Darín. Who is not a fan of Ricardo Darín? We are all fans of Ricardo Darín. There is no one who is no fan of Ricardo Darín”says G. Calvo in the video.
One of the great successes of the Netflix series is how he has managed to move that humanism, that strong heart, to the images of his series. What raises as a fragile that is our world. How can a blackout, suddenly, destabilize our life from one day to another? How the world we believed normal, habitual and that was going to be so, suddenly, changes? This the series reflects it perfectly. Emphasizes the value of the collective, in friendship, in the love of the family, how in the worst beautiful things can arise
The Eternalutaalthough it has the same dramatic tropes as the rest of the series of the genre, it distances itself. “Our gaze is educated and exceeded by the North American series, with their usual speed and dramatic excesses so that everything is tremendously serious “Alejandro points out, “here, obviously, it is another narration model. And I think that makes it super interesting. Why do I say it is interesting? Why do I say it is good? Because, to begin with, it is different from the rest. In addition, it looks much more like the comic in that aspect.”
All these series have the same direction of dramatic tropes. A speed in the action that is very fast and is very tremendous in general in the postpocalyptic series that are not so good. And there is a lot. ‘The Eternaluta’ distance
“It is interesting the rhythm that has it dedicated, especially in its first two chapters, to define characters and context. They are basic for the series. Defines characters with layers, which are not or good or bad. But they are characters such as we are real people,” he continues.
The 6 episodes that make up the first season are already available in Netflix.
