{"id":554571,"date":"2023-02-20T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-swarm-berlinale-tv-review\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:30:00","slug":"watch-the-swarm-berlinale-tv-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-swarm-berlinale-tv-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Swarm&#8217;: Berlinale TV Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df92799e28\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df92799e28\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-swarm-berlinale-tv-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Swarm_Berlinale_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Swarm&#8217;: Berlinale TV Review&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-swarm-berlinale-tv-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Swarm_Berlinale_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Swarm&#8217;: Berlinale TV Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Swarm_Berlinale_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Swarm&#8217;: Berlinale TV Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Swarm_Berlinale_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Swarm&#8217;: Berlinale TV Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Why complicate matters? \u201cThe Swarm\u201d \u2013 which premiered its first three episodes at the Berlinale <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> \u2013 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The series title, meanwhile, invites confusion with not just 1978\u2019s infamous Michael Caine venture \u2013 a disaster movie in all senses \u2013 but Donald Glover and Janine Nabers\u2019 Prime Video-bound \u201cSwarm,\u201d itself launching next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In and of itself, however, this eight-parter proves reassuringly straightforward and familiar. Its briny pulp \u2013 dredged from Frank Sch\u00e4tzing\u2019s 2004 novel, a Central European bestseller originally earmarked for big-screen adaptation by the late Dino De Laurentiis \u2013 preys heavily on viewer fears of ecological collapse, and what might be lurking for us all beneath the planet\u2019s watery depths. Yet the logline is as simple, and as quickly grasped, as these things get: \u201cJaws\u201d rejigged for a generation of Greta Thunbergs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    We plunge into disaster-movie formula from the prologue, charting the sorry fate of an anonymous Peruvian set upon by unusually aggressive minnows. The focus then expands outwards to those reading the ripples with furrowed brows. In Scotland, we join wide-eyed marine biologist Charlie (Leonie Benesch), whose mounting alarm at haywire equipment readings is scarcely alleviated after falling into bed with hunky fisherman Douglas (Jack Greenlees). Halfway around the globe, a lovelorn pathologist (Alexander Karim) establishes a link with the production\u2019s Japanese personnel. And over in Canada, a whale specialist (Joshua Odjick) witnesses the most obvious sign that something\u2019s gone environmentally awry, as a rogue faction of Orcas lays waste to a whale-watching boat \u2013 and its two-legged contents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The episodes shown in Berlin were set-up: we divined what\u2019s in the water and its potential effects, but not what can be done to counter any of it. Yet the show\u2019s great strength was already <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent: it\u2019s 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 \u201cJaws,\u201d it\u2019s their clunkiness; those rusting vessels could take a whole half-hour to execute basic plot turns. Notably sleeker and speedier, \u201cThe Swarm\u201d has been built to binge, even as it seems likely to prompt less attentive viewers to ask \u201cwait, so where are we now?\u201d Episode two whisks us from Canada via Norway to France, where \u2013 in a textbook pulp manoeuvre \u2013 virologist Cecile de France is called away from rising hospital admissions to untangle some knotty childcare arrangements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That speed yanks us around multiple implausibilities, through the odd sudsy stretch, and past the swathes of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Talk required to get this plot up and running. Doubtless producers returned to Sch\u00e4tzing\u2019s novel out of a sense its premise might land more seriously in an unnaturally heated post-pandemic landscape; in reality, we\u2019re not quite there yet. It\u2019s senior whitecoat Barbara Sukowa \u2013 a long way from her early Rainer Werner Fassbinder collaborations \u2013 who breaks the grim <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> that this environmental uprising is down to \u201ca new species of ice worms,\u201d reportedly burrowing into the Earth\u2019s frozen core with scant regard for their humanoid neighbors. She deserves every Euro on her paycheck for keeping a straight face as she does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What the show is racing towards is Roland Emmerich-ish spectacle, and on this front, \u201cThe Swarm\u201d delivers. Those stray Orcas, a mixed bag of pixels, aren\u2019t fooling anyone much, but elsewhere early-season directors Luke Watson (\u201cRipper Street,\u201d \u201cBritannia\u201d) and Barbara Eder (\u201cBarbarians\u201d) alight on arresting tableaux: a Venice drained by thirsty jellyfish, boats swallowed whole, a tense deep-sea dive \u2013 a literal and figurative fishing expedition \u2013 in episode three. (Philipp St\u00f6lzl will steer the show into port, overseeing the final episodes.) The writing revels in the presence of water, water everywhere: anybody ordering the lobster shrimp is begging for trouble, and even a carwash holds the potential to become an incident scene, providing no guarantee of full or satisfactory service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The money\u2019s gone on hokum, then, but it\u2019s streamlined, well-marshalled hokum: even as half your brain is writing the whole scenario off as nonsense, your remaining cells are egging it on with an amused \u201cyeah, but what if?\u201d I fear this team may run out of ships to sink \u2013 and inventive ways to sink them \u2013 come the show\u2019s home stretch. Yet sheer narrative momentum \u2013 an urgent sense something grave and damp is creeping up on all these characters, papery though they sometimes appear \u2013 carries \u201cThe Swarm\u201d some distance further than expected. This viewer will be tuning in again, keen to see whether those Orcas will ever chill out, and if marine biologists and hunky fishermen, like adjacent water signs, are as natural a match as they sound. Mutated ice worms couldn\u2019t drag me away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe Swarm\u201d airs on ZDF, Rai, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, Viaplay, Movistar, ORF, SRF and Hulu Japan from March; U.S. and U.K. air dates tbc. Beta Film and ZDF Studios are handling world sales. Three of eight episodes were screened for review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <strong>Production<\/strong><br \/><strong>Executive producers<\/strong>: Frank Doelger, Eric Welbers, Mark Huffam, Ute Leonhardt, Jan W\u00fcnschmann, Till Gr\u00f6nemeyer, Barbara Eder, Luke Watson, Moritz von Kruedener, Jan Theys. Producers: Tobias Gerginov, Jacob Glass. Associate producers: Rainer Wemcken, Michael Souvignier.<br \/><strong>Cast<\/strong>: Krista Kosonen, Alexander Karim, Cecile de France, Leonie Benesch, Joshua Odjick, Takehiro Hira, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Oliver Masucci, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Lydia Wilson, Takuya Kimura, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Barbara Sukowa, Jack Greenlees, Kim Mousa, Dutch Johnson, Eidin Jalali.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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