At a remote facility, working as a crew of one, Dan meticulously cleans and respools fire-damaged footage of an interview series conducted at a New York apartment building back in 1994.
At the behest of an enigmatic CEO (Martin Donovan), Dan is soon whisked away upstate for peculiar contract work. The first few minutes of the show - after a quick context-free cold open, a trick each successive episode subverts to varying degrees of success - introduce Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie), an employee at the Museum of the Moving Image who gets a mysterious, out-of-the-blue job offer. What makes “Archive 81” such a perplexing viewing experience is how it takes some wild, generation-spanning ideas and strips them down to a pedestrian presentation that robs it of its otherworldly power. In setting up a story about an unassuming archivist who agrees to restore a series of camcorder tapes from the mid-’90s, it’s inevitable that what seems like a simple task will give way to something larger and more unwieldy. There’s a certain kind of simmering paranoia that runs through this new Netflix series, boiling so clearly that it’s almost impossible to take anything at face value. The pair also serve as executive producers on Amanda Peet’s dramedy The Chair, which stars Sandra Oh ( Killing Eve, Grey’s Anatomy).“ Archive 81” is a show that invites, almost demands, constant skepticism. In addition to The Overstory, Benioff and Weiss are also writing and producing Netflix’s The Three-Body Problem, an adaptation of the sci-fi novel series, with Alexander Woo ( True Blood). Powers published The Overstory in 2018 and wound up receiving the Pulitzer Prize, according to Variety.
Within the novel, a few people from our world learn how to see that parallel one. The Overstory is Powers’ twelfth novel, and it’s about “a world alongside ours that is vast, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us,” according to Deadline. Richard Robbins ( 12 Monkeys, Good Girls Revolt) wrote the pilot for the new series and will also executive produce alongside Powers, Hugh Jackman ( Les Misérables, Logan) and Bernie Caulfield of Benioff and Weiss’s own Bighead Littlehead production name, according to Variety.
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