-Minsc-
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Watching K-Dramas with my wife lowered my guard since they are typically finish the story in a season.
Looking for something different I turned my eye to the rest of Netflix's international selection. The trailer for "Hot Skull" seemed interesting so I put it on my list.
Hot Skull is a Turkish series set eight years after the beginning of a pandemic where a disease is spread by speech. The infected speak in nonsense and you get infected listening to it. Even listening to a recording of an an infected person will infect.
The MC seems to have a resistance to the disease. Whenever he listens to "jabber", he gets intense headaches and his brain raises in temperature to dangerous levels. He also experiences hallucinations. What he can not do is jabber.
The world is now under strict government control and the internet has been taken down. Quarantine districts are the norm. People wear noise cancelling headphones. Windows and doors are padded with foam to prevent unwanted sound from entering homes. A grim future. At least it's different than flesh eating zombies. Probably more heartbreaking because the bodies of your loved ones are still alive.
While I would not have called the show groundbreaking, it was an enjoyable piece of entertainment. It has a different feel than a show produced by the US and is not designed to blatantly meet diversity quotas. By the time I reached the eighth and final episode I realized the story was not going to finish. The show does end on a cliffhanger but does end with enough grace to finish an act. A second season definitely would have had a different feel. The progression from dystopian to save the world. What attracted many to the first may have been lost. Explaining how and why kills the mystery.
I still recommend it. Just go in knowing Hot Skull could have used another half to full season to wrap it up.
Looking for something different I turned my eye to the rest of Netflix's international selection. The trailer for "Hot Skull" seemed interesting so I put it on my list.
Hot Skull is a Turkish series set eight years after the beginning of a pandemic where a disease is spread by speech. The infected speak in nonsense and you get infected listening to it. Even listening to a recording of an an infected person will infect.
The MC seems to have a resistance to the disease. Whenever he listens to "jabber", he gets intense headaches and his brain raises in temperature to dangerous levels. He also experiences hallucinations. What he can not do is jabber.
The world is now under strict government control and the internet has been taken down. Quarantine districts are the norm. People wear noise cancelling headphones. Windows and doors are padded with foam to prevent unwanted sound from entering homes. A grim future. At least it's different than flesh eating zombies. Probably more heartbreaking because the bodies of your loved ones are still alive.
While I would not have called the show groundbreaking, it was an enjoyable piece of entertainment. It has a different feel than a show produced by the US and is not designed to blatantly meet diversity quotas. By the time I reached the eighth and final episode I realized the story was not going to finish. The show does end on a cliffhanger but does end with enough grace to finish an act. A second season definitely would have had a different feel. The progression from dystopian to save the world. What attracted many to the first may have been lost. Explaining how and why kills the mystery.
I still recommend it. Just go in knowing Hot Skull could have used another half to full season to wrap it up.
