![]() In no time, Dan is becoming obsessed with Melody’s tapes, which tell an unfolding tale that involves a malevolent cult, pretentious modern opera and some rudimentary New York City history - and he’s rightfully questioning his own sanity. The catch: The video is apparently so fragile it can only be worked on at Virgil’s remote, rural compound, a Brutalist concrete structure filled with endless hallways, secret rooms and a peculiar lack of cell signal/Internet access. And no, that fire thing isn’t a coincidence. Virgil needs somebody to restore a collection of damaged ’90s-era video cassettes filmed by a grad student (Dina Shihabi) doing an oral history of a strange apartment complex that fell victim to a mysterious fire. With the exception of his best friend Mark (Matt McGorry), host of a popular occult podcast, Dan tends toward self-isolation and depression, which makes him exactly the wrong person (or, in storytelling terms, the right person) for an odd job offered by the wealthy Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan). Dan is obsessed with literally and metaphorically recovering the seemingly irretrievable in large part because he’s haunted by the death of his family in a mysterious fire when he was young. It’s pulpy and creepy, never taking that next step to scary and disturbing, but as recent podcast-to-TV adaptations go, it’s more visually and narratively purposeful than most.ĭeveloped for TV by Rebecca Sonnenshine and primarily directed by Rebecca Thomas, Archive 81 focuses on Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie), a restoration expert for the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Put Netflix’s new eight-episode drama Archive 81, adapted loosely from the podcast of the same name, in that category of shows where the creators clearly think they’re achieving a Lynch/King wolf balance without ever going Lynchian enough on either an emotional or surrealistic level. ![]() Peabody-Nominated Content Studio Project Brazen Launches Platform for "Fearless Storytelling"(Exclusive)
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