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Rating: (Spoiler-free review)
It's 1899, of course, and we're catapulted onto a ship, the Kerberos, which is transporting people from all over Europe, each with their own past, to America. Meanwhile, another ship from the same company, the Prometheus, has been missing for 4 months. Needless to say, the ship we're on receives a message with coordinates, so they decide to follow them, being quite close, and they find themselves right in front of the Prometheus. This is what happens within about the first half-hour of the first episode. From here on, things get quite complicated, but it would be too complex and pointless to write it here (and after all, it is a spoiler-free review!), after all, it's made by the creators of Dark, and we all know, more or less, even those who haven't seen it, what we're talking about. How deep (deeper than the sea...) these screenwriters' minds can venture into mysterious and twisted paths, and they knew that well and played with it a lot. They were no less here; they couldn't have been, but it's not a given that what one expects from them will happen.
The 8 episodes, each about an hour long, flow well, despite the first ones possibly being a bit slow. But despite this, occasionally something unexpected happens, information is revealed, or an interesting exchange keeps the attention high on the mystery, which grows denser and denser. The series is enticing, it demands your curiosity, and it gradually grows, but in the end, the viewer is rewarded, although it's not sure that this exchange is well-received. Occasionally, you may notice references to other works, or rather, I'm not sure how intentional they are or if I imagined them, since the series is filled with everything that is a certain cinema and certain TV series of at least the last 22 years.
Technically it's impeccable, from the sets to the effects, the costumes, all the way to the photography, which is very cold, maybe a bit due to the general trend of the last few years but especially because it's a series set in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, plus a more open, Titanic-like photography wouldn't have worked well for the internal scenes, considering the story being told.
(Reminder for us Italians: in the series, the characters are of various nationalities and speak their respective languages, which is respected in the original version, whereas in Italian they dubbed everything, so you might lose a bit.)
In conclusion, the series is enjoyable, initially slow, but the kind of slowness that doesn't tire you, but rather keeps you glued to watching, looking for clues, and if there's a boring scene, you still have enough elements from the start to start fantasizing some theory or trying to decrypt some previous dialogue. Once finished, I assure you that you will want to talk about it with someone, if you're a fan of the genre, otherwise you can always talk about it poorly, it wouldn't be a problem.
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