La Brea - Complete series
La Brea is a series in which a number of people fall through a sinkhole after an earthquake and end up in prehistoric times. It is September 22, 2004. The first episode of Lost is broadcast in America. A story of a plane crash where the survivors end up in another dimension. Various mysteries are knitted together for six seasons and the series gained cult status. Fans around the world looked forward to each subsequent episode and each subsequent season. After six years the story came to an end and since then all channels have been looking for a successor in the same genre that, just like Lost, would touch viewers from the first image.
The list of series in which a disaster is accompanied by a mystery is very long and most series manage to get further than one season. However, it usually goes downhill from there and the story ends after a second season. Yet no similar series has managed to come close to rivaling Lost in the past twenty years. La Brea is probably one of the most worthy attempts to break new ground in this genre. The fact of an earthquake that creates a sinkhole, causing a number of people to disappear into the earth and end up in prehistoric times in a Jurrasic Park-like world, has the potential to develop a nice story.
And yet things also go wrong at La Brea in the second season. The question is 'why?'. Do the makers want to introduce too much in a short time? Are the intrigues that emerge too exaggerated? I remember from those six seasons of Lost that all the mysteries were served up slowly but surely. The same thing happens in La Brea during the first season. You get to know the people who survived the fall into the sinkhole and also the way they integrate into the group. It is a diverse mix of people from all walks of life who have to get to know and trust each other. In addition, almost all of them are confronted with the life they were forced to leave behind.
Of course, the entire club's aim is to find a way back to the present. That's where it goes wrong in my opinion. During the second season the viewer has a lot to process. It turns out that there is not only an indigenous tribe living in the area that was discovered halfway through season 1. People from modern times also appear to live in that tribe. Further research shows that the stranded victims are not the first travelers of modern times. The previous group of visitors turn out to be scientists who in turn have a link with some of the people who were swept away by the sinkhole.
The viewer clearly lost sight of the forest and dropped out, negating a promising start that yielded four additional episodes for the second season. Fortunately, the makers still got the chance to finish their story with a shortened third season, bringing the entire series to thirty episodes.
And it must be said that the makers have regrouped with those six final episodes to conclude the story of La Brea in a proper manner.
The list of series in which a disaster is accompanied by a mystery is very long and most series manage to get further than one season. However, it usually goes downhill from there and the story ends after a second season. Yet no similar series has managed to come close to rivaling Lost in the past twenty years. La Brea is probably one of the most worthy attempts to break new ground in this genre. The fact of an earthquake that creates a sinkhole, causing a number of people to disappear into the earth and end up in prehistoric times in a Jurrasic Park-like world, has the potential to develop a nice story.
And yet things also go wrong at La Brea in the second season. The question is 'why?'. Do the makers want to introduce too much in a short time? Are the intrigues that emerge too exaggerated? I remember from those six seasons of Lost that all the mysteries were served up slowly but surely. The same thing happens in La Brea during the first season. You get to know the people who survived the fall into the sinkhole and also the way they integrate into the group. It is a diverse mix of people from all walks of life who have to get to know and trust each other. In addition, almost all of them are confronted with the life they were forced to leave behind.
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Of course, the entire club's aim is to find a way back to the present. That's where it goes wrong in my opinion. During the second season the viewer has a lot to process. It turns out that there is not only an indigenous tribe living in the area that was discovered halfway through season 1. People from modern times also appear to live in that tribe. Further research shows that the stranded victims are not the first travelers of modern times. The previous group of visitors turn out to be scientists who in turn have a link with some of the people who were swept away by the sinkhole.
The viewer clearly lost sight of the forest and dropped out, negating a promising start that yielded four additional episodes for the second season. Fortunately, the makers still got the chance to finish their story with a shortened third season, bringing the entire series to thirty episodes.
And it must be said that the makers have regrouped with those six final episodes to conclude the story of La Brea in a proper manner.
