The series has angered the Chinese, at least those close to the regime. Another of those responsible for it, the millionaire Chinese producer Lin Qi, was murdered in 2020 and his poisoner sentenced to death shortly before the premiere, in a script twist of the kind that reality sometimes designs.
There seemed to be a jinx. A cancellation would be a good fiasco, because the first season has left everything open. But the risk is dissipating. It is already the most watched Netflix series in the world (it has been there for three weeks), and the project leaders (David Benioff and DB Weiss) assume that it will continue. And in this production, there is a team of researchers from different origins (the University of Oxford). The main setting is the United Kingdom. Everything is more globalized, that's very Netflix. The references to China are there from the beginning: the first scenes present the brutal public execution, by beating, of a scientist at the time of the Cultural Revolution. The series is convoluted, difficult to follow if you are easily distracted, but the plot is surprising, its interest is growing, and it gives a twist to the current debate about where technology is taking us. This drama connects well with the warlike climate that distresses the world today. And this fiction includes a thinly disguised moral: if humanity is doing little to stop climate change, and that is a threat to those who already live, let's imagine that the apocalypse has a date fixed, but when it happens, about 15 generations will have passed. That's if we don't screw it up first. We are able to do something about it, if we want to. We can do it. We have the power to change the world. And we can change the way we live our lives. And if we do not, the only thing that remains of us, what remains of the human species, will be our genes. And that will be the end of us. The end of our species. All in eight chapters of frenzy.