8 Days to the End - Review of the new series by Parente and Ruzowitzky

8 Days to the End - Review of the new series by Parente and Ruzowitzky

Eight days. Just eight days and Horus, an asteroid headed at full speed against the earth, will crash in Germany, devastating the lives of millions of people. This is the premise of the new series landed on Sky Atlantic on September 23, created by Rafael Parente and directed by Stefano Ruzowitzky. The eight episodes (only two have been released so far) tell the eight days before the impact, following the lives not of heroes, not of extraordinary people, as we are used to seeing in classic apocalyptic films, but of very normal people, people coming from the most disparate social classes, which will react differently to the news of an imminent end of the known world.



Ordinary lives in crisis

Here then a family who buys, using the savings of his life, a clandestine trip to Russia, having to face not only the soldiers guarding the borders, but the transporters themselves, ready to profit from the misfortune. Here it is a politician who manages to find a seat on a helicopter to America for himself and his pregnant wife, but will be forced to abandon his family; and here a father who, to protect his daughter, locks her in a bunker along with a select few who, according to him, "deserve" survival.

Despite being a TV series low budget, 8 days in the end shows us how the European productions we have a lot to give, in fact, through a sparse direction and a photography, without frills and almost "amateur" all the hidden faces of human beings emerge, who, in the face of imminent death, react in the most disparate ways, ways that often are all expressions of the animal survival instinct within each of us. The protagonists are not neither good nor bad, they are simply trapped humans willing to do anything to survive.



So it is precisely the realism, which makes this tv series a little gem. The fear of an asteroid that could hit the earth is certainly a situation that anyone in his life will have thought of at least once, and being able to finally see ordinary people facing "the end" frightens and intrigues at the same time because it is practically impossible not to identify with. wondering what we would do in their place.



We just have to wait for the six episodes remaining, in order to answer the questions that these first two left us. Undeniable is the skill of the actors, absolutely descended into their part and very capable of showing in a single glance the anguish of the dead end in which they find themselves.

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