Interesting take on the 'found footage' genre- it's about a film archivist that is restoring a series of home videos from an apartment building in NYC that burned down in 1994. It switches from the archivist watching the videos while he's restoring them and showing the actual time when they're being shot.
Was pretty creepy to start off with and super solid, the ending kinda did it for me though 7/10, worth watching
Not my cup o' tea, but amazing they can make a series out of anything nowadays - even a Sony Handycam.
I finished this a couple of days ago, and I still don’t get how Mark and Dan are friends…Dan was the sh*ttiest of friends When that guy asked Mark what he was getting out of the relationship, I was thinking the exact same thing. if somebody kept doing sh*t like speaking to me on the phone and immediately hanging up after finishing a sentence, and then he also accused him of not even caring about him but just using him for his podcast…I mean damn
that friendship was extremely 1-sided…he’s done, and is doing, all this sh*t for Dan, and Dan just hangs up on him constantly and treats him like sh*t At 1 point I was like, is Mark actually in love with this dude? Why is he putting up with this?
She’s pretty sexy for some reason can’t put my finger on it. Ever her since I saw her on altered carbon
Just wrapped it up. Pretty good, 7/10, worth a watch if you like psychological horror/cult/supernatural type stuff. Not close to Stranger Things, which is still the gold standard for this type of show on Netflix. Not sure why they called it Archive 81....did I miss something or were they trying to tag in to the 1980's nostalgia craze?
The show is based off the original podcast thats called Archive 81 so they had to use that name. I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I assume it contains the answers for the name.
Wife and I watched this last weekend and really enjoyed it......so of course it gets cancelled..... Archive 81 has been 86ed by Netflix, so looks like Dan is permanently stuck in the '90s Netflix is not going any further down the rabbit hole with Archive 81. The streamer has canceled the horror-mystery series after one season, EW has learned. The news comes after the show hit No. 1 on Netflix in the U.S. upon its release in January. Archive 81 starred Mamoudou Athie as Dan, a young man who takes a suspicious job restoring a collection of damaged videotapes from 1994 for enigmatic billionaire, Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan). While restoring the tapes — which belong to a woman named Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi) who was investigating a dangerous cult at the creepy Visser apartment building when she went missing — he forms a mysterious connection with Melody and her investigation. Fans of the series will be particularly disappointed given the shocking nature of the first season's ending, where Dan learned that Melody was not actually dead or missing, but instead was stuck in a different dimension, and, in the process of saving her, he himself ended up stuck in the '90s while she safely made it to the present day. After the show's release, showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine said the first season was made with a sequel in mind. "It was always meant to keep going. We are always thinking about season 2," she said at the time. Sonnenshine also reassured fans that a second season would answer what really happened to the first season's big-bad Samuel, Virgil's true motivations, who was really responsible for the fire that killed Dan's family, and more. Archive 81 marked the third collaboration with Netflix for Athie (with Uncorked and The Getdown being the other two), whose next big role is the upcoming feature Jurassic World Dominion. Shihabi's next project is with Netflix as a series regular on the upcoming Painkiller, from Eric Newman, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster, and Alex Gibney with Peter Berg directing. All eight episodes of season 1 are currently streaming on Netflix. https://ew.com/tv/archive-81-not-moving-ahead-for-a-second-season-at-netflix
