If we review the best series on blackouts that we have been able to see recently, it may come to mind quickly Blackoutan original from Movistar Plus+ that had a great cast and five independent stories.
Fiction feels a special predilection for natural catastrophes and apocalyptic stories like this, in which a solar burst fries the electrical facilities by making people go back in time and rethink their social organization.
On other occasions, the approach has closer to the thriller, as in the case of Blackout in which a sabotage is investigated and monitor the political consequences of a cyber attack.
Posts to Fabular in a tremendous code, the French anthological series The collapse Create eight anguishing prints in which the anxiety civilization and for what counts and how it counts only we can recommend it fervently.
But there is nothing more fear than reality itself and the Apple TV+ series After the hurricane (Five Days at memorial) He knew how to put ourselves in the skin of the medical teams that had to face lethal cuts after the passage of Hurricane Katrina by New Orleans. Rarely you will feel as much anguish as seeing this miniseries based on real events.
If you are looking for refuge in science fiction, then you will quote you much more The Eternalutawhich has as its starting point a blackout and a mysterious toxic snowfall. From that moment on, the fall of technology will be nothing more than one of the issues that the protagonists will have to deal with.
But what if the threat is the light itself? Into the Night He did not leave its protagonists in the dark, members of a kidnapped commercial flight, but that the main premise is that the sun’s rays had the ability to annihilate life. So they could only remain in the air, in the shadow zone and avoid radiation. So in the dark, yes, but from the Astro Sol.
Apart from these series in which the light or lack of light has a radical importance, it must be said that the blackouts are one of those situations that the series loves to exploit in “bottle episodes”.
He comes to mind Emergencies, Friends o Breathebut there are many more series that have used this resource to brake on the frames and expose the protagonists to an exceptional situation.
Anyway, we provide for a quiet future in which the energy dependence does not explode in the face and in which the lights do not fail …
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