The new Six-Part German Series, Biohackers, released on Netflix on August 20. With its many twists and turns, the series will allow you to guess until the end of its suspense.
Created through Christian Ditter (the director of the hit romantic comedy How to Be Single and Love, Rosie), Biohackers is a fast-moving mystery with, as the name suggests, the clinical generation in the middle of its plot. The screen stars Luna Wedler as Mia, Jessica Schwarz as Professor Tanja Lorenz and looks like Benno Furmann.
The first episode begins with a haunting scene of passengers on a train, one by one, breathless and then unconscious. A doctor is called, whom a young woman, dressed in a necklace with the MIA inscription, responds by saying she is a medical student. He goes to the rescue of the passengers, but it turns out there’s nothing he can do.
The episode then increases to two weeks before this incident. In a series with a positive soundtrack that contrasts radically with the opening scene, the episode shows the young woman, Mia, moving into her new student home, which she shares with 3 other eccentric individuals. Mia is a recruit from the prestigious medical school at the University of Freiburg and has a double brother who helps keep it a secret. It becomes temporarily transparent that its purpose is to attract the attention and trust of her instructor Tanja Lorenz.
Lorenz presents hees as the school’s star teacher. Standing in front of a convention hall full of students, Lorenz preaches the benefits of artificial biology, stating that it is humanity’s long-term. Lorenz’s speech ends with a flashback of Mia’s past, in which his brother appears being transported to the hospital. Obviously, there’s a connection between Lorenz and Mia’s brother. However, Biohackers will take its time to reveal what this connection is.
During the conference, Mia saw Jasper, the training assistant. She sees it as a way to access Lorenz. Jasper, however, is not the guy with which he holds his hand in exercise in the initial sequence. It’s Niklas, who happens to be none other than Jasper’s roommate. The first episode presents the dilemma of a love triangle in addition to everything else.
Unlike its opening sequence, Biohackers is not afraid of a pandemic epidemic. The series was originally scheduled to be released on Netflix in April 2020, but due to the opening scene on the train, which would possibly have annoyed the audience at the start of the corona virus outbreak, Netflix and the show’s creators rejected it. release date.
Biohackers is at its center and deals with genetic modification and its consequences. The series questions ethics and morality in clinical experiments. How can a scientist pass the call to safeguard humanity? And what are the transparent barriers not to cross?
I’ll have to admit that I had a hard time getting into this series in the first episode, maybe because of Lorenz’s nasty speech, or because this first episode goes in many other directions. There is the beginning of a love triangle, an advent to university life, a mysterious rivalry between the instructor and his freshman, a trail of a stranger beyond the death of Mia’s brother connected to Lorenz, and at the end of the episode. One, we still don’t know why everyone falls unconscious on the train.
However, once the story begins and the plot around Mia’s beyond slowly reveals itself as the episodes unfold, the series becomes suspenseful. All the elements brought in the first episode have perfect compatibility with the set to create an unforeseen and captivating revenge tale.
The Netflix original series in Germany, Biohackers, is available for broadcast from August 20.
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