Tuesday 18 May 2021

Tribes of Europa

This show was Toni's pick for dinner show after Shadow and Bone. It's a German post-apoc show and the story follows three siblings from the Origine tribe. The setup is that one December about 45 years past all technology suddenly stopped working. Everything just went dark and after that society as we know it collapsed. In the show's present day Europe no longer has countries, but is divided between different tribes of people. 

The story starts off by a jet crashing in the woods where the Origine tribe lives. The youngest of the siblings finds a control cube and takes it with him. A pretty savage tribe called the Crows were the ones to shoot down the jet and they are also looking for the cube. Looking for it the annihilate the monk settlement called Little Praha, with whom the Origines trade, and then they turn their eye on the Origines themselves. The tribe is massacred with only a few survivors. 

The oldest brother, Kiano, ends up being taken by the Crows where he struggles to find a path forward and to freedom. 

The sister Liv gets taken in by the militaristic Crimsons where she plots to free her people from the Crows.

The youngest brother Elja runs off on his own, but soon finds a companion in the vagabond Moses (same actor as Ulrich in Dark so we keep calling him Ulrich). Elja sets himself on a quest to return the cube to where it came from - a mysterious and technologically advanced tribe called the Atlantians. 

The show is German in origin and so they mainly speak German, but there's also a lot of English involved as all the tribes don't speak German and some of them have travelled a long way and have territories stretching over Europe. It's a neat feature that not everybody speaks German, which wouldn't have been the case if the show was British or American in origin. And everybody who speaks English in this show does it with an accent, which also wouldn't have been the case if the show was British or American. I really appreciate that addition. 

The show starts out kind of meh, but around halfway because really frickin interesting and I hope it will get another season :3 None of us speak German, but get some subs on there and it's no issue :)

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