South Korean storytellers are at the vanguard of modern entertainment, but one area where they have long struggled is science fiction. Those looking to Netflix’s latest drama The Silent Sea, a moon-set action-mystery-horror series, to buck that trend are likely to walk away disappointed, if not outright frustrated.
The series starts with scientist Song Ji-an and Han Yoon-jae picked to be the brains and brawn of a team that is tasked with voyaging to the abandoned Balhae moon station, where 117 researchers died five years earlier. Both characters have personal reasons for taking on the mission, which later become apparent.
The team arrives at the station in the nick of time, only to find that the situation isn’t as they had expected it to be. They were told that the researchers had died of radiation owing to an accident, but instead they find a mass of corpses that exhibit signs of death by drowning. Once the team reaches the station we’re largely spared from the atrocious effects and head-scratching creative decisions of the first episode, but in their wake, the show settles into a dull mystery-horror narrative that takes place in an endless tangle of drearily repetitive corridors.
Even Lee Joon, an ex-member of K-pop boy band MBLAQ and third-billed among the cast as Captain Ryoo Tae-seok, can barely be distinguished from the background until the second half of the series, when his character finally gets something to do. However, rather than a new Ripley – the a**-kicking protagonist of the Alien franchise played by Sigourney Weaver – this series offers us something predictably regressive instead.
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