At the beginning of this century we celebrated the golden age of series, with true works of art on the screens, but the proliferation of platforms has led us to the era of piece-rate series.
Each company forces the machine to accumulate news and overwhelm us in their menus.
So it is difficult to separate the grain from the chaff.
Found a grain: it is
Raised by Wolves
, ambitious and original science fiction production signed by one of the greats of the genre: Ridley Scott.
Big bet of HBO Max in the US this year, in Spain it is seen on TNT at one episode a week, a rhythm to which we were no longer used, forget about bingeing.
The director of
Alien
and
Blade Runner,
who claims
to be Kubrick's
2001
debtor
, has had a career of ups and downs, marred by the sequels and prequels of his alien monster that fell short of the tension of the real thing.
The start of
Raised by Wolves
(raised by wolves) clears the doubts: the first chapter is a good movie in itself.
It could end there, but the second convinces that it is worth continuing, we will see if it does not decline.
Seinfeld in the golden retreat
'Babylon Berlin', the cities of sin
Catch that post-apocalyptic scenario in which the war has devastated the Earth and the few survivors try to avoid the extinction of the species by colonizing other worlds.
In one of them, the robots Father and Mother, in charge of a new Genesis: to bear a handful of children and educate them in atheism.
And, in a Noahic space ark, the Mithraics, devoted believers in the ancient cult of the Sun god.
In the cast shine the Australian Travis Fimmel (Ragnar in
Vikings
) and, above all, the Danish Amanda Collin, android, mother of courage and exterminating angel.
Ambiguous characters: one does not know whether to sympathize with them with such a twist in the script.
And it is surprising, not really so much, that it is a religious conflict that is ruining humanity.
How much blood shed in the name of the divine in the past, the present ... and the future.