If you’re a movie fan, alien invasion movies are not only fairly common, they’re fairly repetitive thematically speaking.

Which is to say that the aliens turn up, humanity puts aside their various differences, and the aliens are repelled.

The thing is this is not a fairly common template, it’s the version of such things Hollywood exports all over the world.

This is exactly why the Netflix series, The Eternaut, is so imporant namely it’s based on an Argentinian comic, O Eternauta, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld.

So not only we get a view of Argentinian life that you don’t get in in American films of a similar ilk, but we get an entire different view of how such a threat could be fought.

Though since I haven’t the comics I can’t say how faithful it is to the series though what I can say is that I don’t see how a series as novel as this one could have been dreamed up by a bunch of screenwriters without the comic acting as a north star.

That being said it starts out a little slow, but stick with it because it does some pretty interesting things that takes some ideas that you’re likely aware of but does some really fun things with them.