Why complicate matters? “The Swarm” – which premiered its first three episodes at the Berlinale Series – is one of those expensive pan-global coproductions necessitating copious logistics, not leas…
” – which premiered its first three episodes at the Berlinale Series – is one of those expensive pan-global coproductions necessitating copious logistics, not least a carefully observed quota of performers from each territory pumping money into the production pot. Its opener generates a not inconsiderable carbon footprint, whisking us from Peru to Canada and thence the Scottish Highlands.
In and of itself, however, this eight-parter proves reassuringly straightforward and familiar. Its briny pulp – dredged from Frank Schätzing’s 2004 novel, a Central European bestseller originally earmarked for big-screen adaptation by the late Dino De Laurentiis – preys heavily on viewer fears of ecological collapse, and what might be lurking for us all beneath the planet’s watery depths.
The episodes shown in Berlin were set-up: we divined what’s in the water and its potential effects, but not what can be done to counter any of it. Yet the show’s great strength was already apparent: it’s TV covering a lot of ground at a high rate of knots. If anything lingers of the disaster movies that swam in the wake of “Jaws,” it’s their clunkiness; those rusting vessels could take a whole half-hour to execute basic plot turns.
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