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Baitball Blogger

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Sun Jun 9, 2019, 11:42 AM Jun 2019

3% - The Brazilian dystopia series has its third season available on Netflix.

I don't know if the other two seasons had English audio dubbing available, but the third season does have it as an option.

Love this foreign view of what happens next because it does have a thoughtful, but sobering concept of the real problems that real leaders will have to face in order to keep the human species moving forward.

First season: You learn about this society's version of the hunger games. Difference is that there are only two social worlds. One is impoverished and the other is lauded as an idyllic living where no one goes hungry, and the days are filled with leisure pleasure. This is a place called Offshore, because it is not within geographical reach to the poor society, that are known as Inlanders. Offshore is a dream that can only be accessed if contestants make it through mind-bending, physical trials - and the Inlanders have only one shot at passing the gauntlet. Each year, when children reach a certain age, they are allowed into the walls of a structure where the trials begin. Obviously, those who have had their shot and missed, have their own ideas about bringing an end to this process.

Second season: Continues the story of the main characters, some who get second chances because there are objectives from the testers that are not known in the first season. Once in Offshore, the history of the founders is learned, and it is discovered that the original concept was never fully executed. In Offshore, there is also technology that gives a few a chance to start over.

Third season: Just saw one episode and I'm hooked. It's about the start-over society, now a third world called The Shell. And already we're seeing the difficulties that the original founders faced that required trials to provide "a good life" for a few.

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3% - The Brazilian dystopia series has its third season available on Netflix. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jun 2019 OP
I found it interesting. I haven't started the third season yet. hunter Jun 2019 #1
Thank you! Baitball Blogger Jun 2019 #2

hunter

(38,299 posts)
1. I found it interesting. I haven't started the third season yet.
Sun Jun 9, 2019, 12:03 PM
Jun 2019

I always watch shows in their original languages, with subtitles, including shows in American English. Dubbed shows confuse me.

If you post this in the Netflix, Streaming Videos & DVDs Group it will be around a little longer.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1143

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