The Head: Mistério na Antártida

TV series (2020-) in 2 seasons and 12 episodes, it is located at the Polaris VI international station, in Antarctica. It is only known that every April 29 in Antarctica, the sun sets and does not rise again for the next six months. Winter has fallen on the South Pole, and most of the staff evacuate the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station. A small team, known as the Winterers, will remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research, a crucial part in the fight against climate change. The small group stays on to continue their work led by renowned biologist Arthur Wilde (John Lynch). But when spring comes, summer commander Johan Berg (Alexander Willaume) returns to find the entire team are either dead or missing. The Head is in a strange way in a facility that has occurred at the South Pole. There is only one survivor, but he does not remember anything of what happened. A killer is on the loose and Annika (Laura Bach), Johan's wife, is missing. If he wants to find her alive, he will have to trust Maggie (Katharine O'Donnelly), the young doctor who is traumatized and apparently the sole survivor from the group. The Longest Night !. The Coldest Truth !.

Whodunit in which a serial killer executes gruesome murders and an investigation attempting to resolve. Through questions and flashbacks from the only survivors, during that period of winter time, the scientific group has ended up dying one less person and they will try to find out the truth behind this strange event. An intriguing and apocalyptic story that focuses on an investigation of the inexplicable death of a group of scientists. Thrilling, suspenseful series packing chills , tension, noisy action, violence , intriguing events , gruesome slaying and winds up into an astonishing finale. Exciting, slow-paced and stirring development , though predictable, when starring find that their colleagues are being murdered one by one ."The Head" was filmed on location in Iceland and Tenerife, Canary Islands, España. In the first episode the series pays tribute to John Carpenter when the remaining crew is watching The Thing (1982), and the plot The Head (2020) bears a certain resemblance to that film. There're a nice actors in the cast, such as: John Lynch as leader of the innovative research, a crucial part in the fight against climate change, Katharine O'Donnelly as Dr. Maggie Mitchell, Alexandre Willaume, Johan Berg , Richard Sammel as Erik, Tomohisa Yamashita as Aki, Hovik Keuchkerian as Charlie, Laura Bach as Dr. Annika, Alvaro Morte as Ramón, Enrique Arce as Óscar, Mónica López as Astrid, among others.

Compellingly written by David and Alex Pastor, they offer us an intelligent flick of the frozen Antarctic, tense, intimate and committed, they're expert on apocalyptic and Sci-fi films as ¨Carriers¨, their first American film with Chris Pine, Piper Perabo. David and Alex Pastor Brothers directed in 2013 ,¨The Last days¨ , with Quim Gutierrez , Jose Coronado and wrote Out of the Dark (2014) and Eternal (2015). This killer-chiller coproduced by Spain and Japan was professionally directed by Jorge Dorado. He's a good craftsman who has shot decent films and TV series,such as: Objetos (Lost and found) , Mindscape, Gigantes, El Ministerio del Tiempo, Feria: La luz más oscura, El embarcadero (The Pier), among others. Rating: 7/10. Decent series that will aapeal to mystery thriller fans.