In a year in which I watched way too much TV, this was easily the most obscure and unnecessary show I watched. (And yet, I'm glad I did!) This is a French science fiction thriller drama that takes place on Mars across ten episodes. Do you know what my favorite part about it was? My favorite part about it was that the episodes were all, like, twenty minutes long. Easy and breezy - it's a winning strategy in 2017 and beyond!
But no, this was kind of a mess, and I had all but completely lost the thread by the halfway mark. (That it was subtitled - and then suddenly largely not subtitled - didn't help.) The story begins with a crew of eight European astronauts about to land on Mars, the first manned mission to do so. But then, three days away from Mars, they receive a transmission from Mars, from a rival company that has overtaken them and already landed on Mars, and these people are of course doing the classic, "OH GOD, TURN BACK, DO NOT COME TO MARS." And then of course the European team lands on Mars. And of course, they lose their captain in the process. So now you're thinking, okay fine, this will be a classic space horror thing, and the crew will die one by one. Except... that's not at all what happens, and by the end of the second episode they've met up with a Soviet cosmonaut from 1960 or so - a guy who crashed and presumably died, on earth, sixty years prior - and then a few episodes later there's a NASA crew arriving, and suddenly half the show is in English, and seriously, what the fuck is going on?
Anyway, this is nothing you need to seek out.
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