Poverty is something even wealthy Brazilians encounter on a daily basis, and there is a sense of urgency that comes with that familiarity that an American production would be hard pressed to fake.Ĭrashing, Louie, Master of None, Seinfeld: stories about the lives of comedians are well worn territory on American television. In this particular dystopia, the group of attractive and diverse heroes and heroines are striving to get to a mythical utopia called “The Offshore.” While American audiences may find the depiction of their various trials and tribulations along the way to be a bit low budget, the crisp, tight writing help illuminate something that would be difficult for American shows to get across. In this world, the bottom three percent of the population have a shot at a better life.that is if they can get themselves selected to be lifted out of the impoverished masses. 3% captures everything the world loves about The Hunger Games or The 100 with a fraction of the budget.ģ%’s premise is going to sound familiar to anyone who has even a passing familiarity with The Hunger Games or the many copycats it has inspired. The first foreign TV series on the streaming platform is called 3% and directed by the incredibly gifted cinematographer of City of God, Cesar Charlone. The dystopian YA craze has hit Brazil and it's extremely good. The result is an intimate and riveting portrait of a world turned upside down that still carries enough action to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. But, rather than attempt to capture the sweeping consequences of an environmental cold war, Occupied focuses on how such an event would impact the day-to-day lives of Norway’s civil servants. Don’t get us wrong: there are still gunfights and diplomatic intrigue. Occupied tells this story in a smaller way than you would expect from a series covering ideas of this magnitude. When the oil stops flowing, the EU authorizes Russia to conduct a soft invasion of Norway and the geopolitical intrigue begins. Though the forward-thinking Norwegians are on board with the idea, well, the rest of the world.not so much. In the not-so-distant future, the Norwegian Green Party, an environmentally friendly political formation, has taken control of the country, and has used their power to totally cease production of fossil fuels. Only a country with a very different environmental tradition from the United States could produce a show like Occupied.
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