Review of Moonhaven, the new futuristic science-fiction series from AMC+

the streaming service AMC+available on Orange TV, Vodafone TV, Jazztel TV and as an additional Prime Video channel, premieres the science-fiction series on Thursday, August 11 moonhaven.

Created by peter ockowho participated as a screenwriter in some of the craziest and most groundbreaking series of the 90s, such as A girl bombshell, Parker Lewis never loses either dinosaursconsists of six episodes of approximately one hour in length that will be released every Thursday.

moonhaven presents us with a sort of suspenseful thriller set in a community built by humans on the Moon.

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Bella Sway is a seasoned lunar freighter pilot who is framed for a crime and confined to Moonhaven. She this she was created with the help of a powerful artificial intelligence on Earth’s natural satellite in order to save her from the problems that afflict her: from pollution to water wars that have decimated the population.

Barely Two weeks after opening “the bridge” that will unite Moonhaven and Mother Earth, Bella will be involved in a conspiracy that seeks to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for the miracles of the terraformed part of the Moon.. She, very skeptical about the idyllic lunar colony, soon finds cracks.

For this she will have the support of Paul Serno, a local detective who will try with her to maintain the hope of achieving a better future.

The first thing that catches your attention moonhaven It is his aesthetic approach that inverts the premise of the relationship between the Earth and the Moon.

We are used to seeing the Moon from Earth, but in this case it is the opposite and the Moon’s own inhabitants (three generations have grown up there in a veritable vegetable garden) refer to it as the place to climb, not to which it goes down

If series like for all mankind they have given us a plausible approximation of what a space colony would be like, with the resources we have today or projecting those we could have in the coming years, here the jump is exponential because de facto in the occupied territory of the Moon it has been possible to create a breathable atmosphere and to breed abundant vegetation.

But in addition, also generate a whole series of technologies that manage to fix problems rooted in the Earth such as water pollution, among other things.

In everything that affects the staging and costumes, a futuristic approach predominates with constructions in which curved shapes and curious inventions are combined with fabrics and elements of nature such as linen, wood or leaves. The groups are usually colorful and have some hippies.

The production has thrown the house out the window to find some visual keys that cause estrangement but at the same time are familiar.

And something similar happens with the argument of moonhaven. It is actually a story in which an investigation takes place as a result of a crime, clues are sought and the thread is pulled to find the culprits, but the setting and the implications, on a large scale, make it something quite peculiar. .

As far as the cast is concerned, the presence of Dominic Monaghan (lost), but the real protagonist is emma mcdonaldwho recently debuted in 2019 with the first role of his acting career and here supports the main weight of the series with a lot of charisma… even when it is concerned with creating its own imaginary that sometimes borders on the ridiculous.

accompany her joe manganiello (TrueBlood), amara karan (Doctor Who), Ayelet Zurer (losing alice), Kadeem Hardison (Black Monday) Y Yazzmin Newell (The Last Tree).

In short, moonhaven deserves a chance for being quite original and keeping the interest of the audience. We will see if we have a second season with which to continue investigating the conflicts that they propose to us. What is of course alarming is that nothing that is predicted for the Earth in the not too distant future sounds strange to us…

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Review of Moonhaven, the new futuristic science-fiction series from AMC+