ANTHRACITE: limited series TV

Not recommended.

Weird. Some sort of horror from France.

Well … there is humour, mainly around quirky Ida — some sort of online detective hacker. She’s terminally ill so doesn’t much worry about anything she does.

The plot is confusing.

Opening Shot: “1994.” The camera pushes in on a house on a lake. SWAT teams arrive in rafts and put up their weapons.

The Gist: The SWAT teams are there to invade the house, in the French Alps village of Levionna, which is the headquarters of a cult led by Caleb Johansson (Stefano Cassetti). Johansson ends up being the only survivor after a mass suicide …

Decider

30 years later the village economy is dominated by a mysterious company, apparently an anthracite (coal) mine.

A journalist looking into the past cult deaths is kidnapped.

His daughter — Ida — arrives to rescue her Dad.

After another seeming cult murder, Jaro Gatsi is blamed by the townspeople. He’s an ex-con who was hired to work at the ski resort.

There’s Jaro’s friend. Who’s got relationship problems.

Next — a troubled police detective, who seems to be the only cop actually trying to solve this thing.

An evil nurse in an insane asylum.

Too many fights. Gunshots. A car chase. …

The whole thing is pretty dumb. Who approved this script?

On the upside, it’s original and not often boring.

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