Serial Of The Month: L'Effondrement (France 2019)

The Collapse (in the original 'L'Effondrement') is a French end-of-time miniseries from 2019 that, on behalf of the pay-TV channel Canal +, was created, written and realized by the collective Les Parasites, consisting of Guillaume Desjardins, Jérémy Bernard and Bastien Ughetto. The German-language first publication took place on July 16, 2020 by the streaming provider Joyn. This series accompanies individuals or groups at different times and in different places as they try by different means to survive in a world that is about to collapse.
Throughout the series, the exact causes of the onset of the social breakdown remain in the dark. In the individual episodes, the reactions of the different characters are shown at different times after the collapse. The protagonists struggle with the consequences of a shortage of food in supermarkets, with widespread power outages and wrecking nuclear power plants; these events lead to theft, the use of firearms and the like. In addition to survival, positive examples are also shown, i.e. how communal survival can take place. In the production of The Collapse, emphasis was placed on environmentally friendly production. Each episode is produced without a cut. Therefore, the production and writing of the scripts was correspondingly complex. A total budget of 2 million euros was available.

Overall Score:

09/10