Choi Hang-yong’s eight-episode Netflix series is the latest high-profile streaming export from South Korea and owes a great debt to James Cameron’s sci-fi classic “Aliens”
. Yet what it boasts in formal proficiency it lacks in genuine novelty or excitement, making it the sort of ho-hum genre effort that’ll best be enjoyed by those without a deep knowledge of the more accomplished ancestors from which it liberally borrows.
Choi’s series is set in a future wracked by extreme climate change that’s resulted in rising temperatures, rampant wild fires, skyrocketing infant mortality rates, incessant disease, and—most calamitous of all—record-low rainfall that’s created a Great Drought. In response to this arid new reality, the South Korean government has instituted the Fair Water Distribution Act, which assigns each citizen a classification that determines the amount of water they receive.
Han and Song are initially at odds with each other, since he wants to simply complete their mission and she is more concerned with figuring out what transpired five years prior. As it turns out, both of those objectives have to do with the samples the squad has been commissioned to find.Their task proves more difficult than expected, given that the facility’s three storage units have been cleared out, and all records of their contents have been erased.
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