Author: ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 05:04:32
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“The Eternaut” premiered its first season on Netflix on April 30. The six-episode, Spanish-language series has struck a universal nerve. Netflix already renewed the show for a second season, with filming scheduled to start next year. Martn Oesterheld said the show had to be filmed in Spanish, with an Argentine cast and set in Buenos Aires. Netflix, pushing to expand beyond its saturated U.S. Market into previously untapped regions like Latin America, was a natural fit, he said. In the show, aliens wreak predictable mayhem on an unpredictable cityscape. Juan Salvo, played by Ricardo Darn, is haunted by the rout of his comrades sent by Argentina’s dictatorship to retake the South Atlantic islands. The defeat killed 649 Argentine soldiers, many of them untrained conscripts. What comes through, the creators say, is the argente saying “atado con alambre” — roughly, “held together with wire”. “There is a general policy these days that the state shouldn’t take care of its citizens,” Darn says. But there are many cases where people are left to drift, as if they were shipwrecked," Oesterheld’s daughters and potential grandchildren popped up on billboards all over Buenos Aires. By the time the military junta came to power in 1976, his daughters, ranging in age from 19 to 25, had joined a far-left guerilla group “The Eternaut’ is a living memory, a classic story that’s passed down from generation to generation,” says Martn Oesterheld. “For it to be embraced by so many people in this way… There is no greater social commentary”
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