this April 11, 2018 a solar storm caused all this electrical departments will stop working worldwide. That was the subject of the podcast they created a few years ago. Ana Alonso and Jose A. Pérez Ledo and what new series Movistar, blackout. science fiction and Spanish style dystopia looks without complexity at any of the blockbusters of this genre made in other countries. We may have been saturated with dystopian dramas in recent years, especially since the pandemic, but the truth is that it’s an area where very little national fiction has entered so far. Well, we had the example fence, but who remembers him now? Movistar has thrown the house out the window and boasts some of the most prestigious Spanish filmmakers and a solid cast. recent success The longest night inside Netflix allowed the character he played Louis Callejo to be one of the most recognizable faces. Each chapter is an independent storyAlthough there are interrelated characters, he takes place in the apocalyptic world he is in. Civilization as we know it collapsed.
There have been several Spanish series about incarceration during the hardest days of the pandemic, some with premise very similar to what Blackout has brought us now. this podcast published two years before covid entered our livesTherefore, a good part of the plots of radio editing is emphasized. conspiracy theoriesAbout whether the government knew what was to come and why it wasn’t taking action to mitigate the consequences. But the closest reference to the Movistar version and the French one similar to it is The Collapse. Independent stories where the world is fucked and institutions stop working. The collapse had the distinction of having happened before the pandemic, and it was scary to see how it hit the target in some of his predictions. The blackout comes when the threat of covid is behind us and we have a new perspective on what those days were like. Uncertainties on the international scene with the Ukraine war and the fuel crisis brings us closer to this new normal that Blackout proposes. One day running out of electricity becomes a more real and tangible danger.
During the pandemic, the fact that the supply chain was unbroken, people could telecommute or spend the quarantine adhering to serial marathons helped a lot to prevent the social situation from flooding. In this new reality, we wouldn’t even have these luxuries, so the situation would be worse a priori. In such series, we are more than accustomed to the plot base: Man is a wolf to man, and the laws of the strongest prevail, and he who can save himself. But one of the things Blackout stands out from its peers is that not all of its stories are of this type. With different directors and independent stories, each brings their own special vision to this new world and we have very different perspectives. Yes, there are parts where chaos reigns, but there are parts where the saying we hear a lot during the pandemic also prevails: “We’ll come out better than this”.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodriguez and Iñaki Lacuesta They are the five directors assigned to enter this new Spain, more apocalyptic than some news releases show. a spain with people rush the last moments in the bars before chaos comes. Where the politicians and the powerful flee to the bunker as soon as they see what’s coming, leaving the hard working to their fate. The inaction of the rulers, more than the evil conspiracies from the sinister offices, slowness of bureaucracy and lack of courage to make risky decisions which may not be popular. where is a spain health personnel It’s about giving everything with the few means at your disposal. Where immigrants arriving by boat With the promise of travel to a better place, they explain that this new world is not so bad after all. Some characters in Blackout manage to adapt to this new reality and dystopia seems like a utopia to themaway from all the stresses and tensions of our busy reality. There are parts where the gaze turns to this Spain emptied, seems to be living better now. But there are others that the evacuated Spain looks at with skepticism at those fleeing the cities that reached the conquered lands. The reason for this insecurity is that they “always want more”.
The success of the show will depend on whether we have new seasons or whether any of the selected directors will repeat or seek out new ones looking for unreleased stories in this new reality. It’s time to give spoilers, so anyone who hasn’t watched the series warn you and stop reading. On the podcast, things took two more seasons, but the power outage was over and the world could begin to return to normal after three months of darkness. Months when we were accidentally trapped in a state of alert. In the TV series, it gives us the feeling that we are in one spot. more permanent condition. Although the last episode ends with the news that some heroes prefer to forget. Will we go back to that dark world or will there be stories of rebuilding?