Archive 816/20/2023 ![]() Her body, like the bodies of other residents who perished, was never found (it just so happens Dan’s family was killed in a mysterious house fire when he was a child during the same time period). Dan wants to know more, but Melody died in the blaze that consumed the building. ![]() They appear to be members of a dangerous cult. It’s downright annoying, but that’s not entirely why the eccentric tenants of the building treat her as an interloper. On day one he discovers the fire-damaged footage he’s bringing back to life was shot by grad student Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi) in the early ’90s as part of an oral history project about a storied apartment complex, the Visser. Dan is a nervous recluse with depressive tendencies and one mental breakdown already under his belt. ![]() It’s filled with locked rooms and empty corridors. It’s a creepy ’80s-era compound with no internet, cell signal or color scheme beyond cement gray. The mangled cassettes are stored at a desolate, upstate facility of Davenport’s and can’t be moved, so Dan must live and work on the premises. The fun begins when he accepts a lucrative freelance opportunity from the enigmatic billionaire Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan) to restore a collection of videos damaged in a deadly 1990s NYC apartment building fire. Loosely based on a podcast of the same name, this mind-bending puzzle pits sanity against reality where the pursuit of lucidity is both a nightmare and a thrill.Īdapted for television by Rebecca Sonnenshine and directed primarily by Rebecca Thomas, “Archive 81” follows film restoration expert Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) who is with New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. Trailers for the eight-episode series suggest a monster horror show, but the slow-building, addictive hour-long drama is smarter than your average ghoul fest. Netflix‘s psychologically tense and suspenseful “Archive 81” is an urban mystery dipped in the occult, then sprinkled with “ Black Mirror”-like madness.
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