The Fog (TV Series)
Television series | |
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German title | The fog |
Original title | The crap |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
year | 2017 |
Production company |
Dimension television |
length | 45 minutes |
Episodes | 10 in 1 season |
genre | Mystery , science fiction |
idea | Christian Torpe |
production | Guy J. Louthan, Michael Mahoney |
music | Giona Ostinelli |
First broadcast | June 22, 2017 (USA) on Spike |
First publication in German |
August 25, 2017 on Netflix |
occupation | |
The Fog is an American television series by showrunner Christian Torpe about a spreading fog in which eerie creatures lurk. The adaptation is loosely based on the novel of the same name from the short story collection Im Dawn by Stephen King and combines elements of mystery , science fiction , fantasy and horror .
The first broadcast took place on June 22, 2017 on the US broadcaster Spike . All ten episodes of the first season were published by Netflix via streaming in German-speaking countries on August 25, 2017 . At the end of September 2017 it was announced that the series would not continue.
action
The gentle author Kevin Copeland lives with his wife, Eve, a teacher, and their 16-year-old daughter Alex - the child does not initially know that Kevin is not the biological father - in the fictional town of Bridgeville, Maine . Up to this point in time, the couple had already experienced and mastered several crises. However, when the girl goes to a party against the wishes of her caring mother, at which her crush, quarterback Jay, is also present, a falling out breaks out. The youngster is drugged and raped at the party - her pansexual companion Adrian accuses Jay of the crime - and Eve then leaves her husband with Alex. Shortly afterwards, a deceptive fog envelops the small town. It soon becomes clear that this haze is something supernatural; prolonged contact inevitably leads to death.
Eve and Alex are surprised at the local mall , where they hide from now on with other refugees - including Jay. Rationed food, the claustrophobic atmosphere and quarrels soon lead to paranoia and aggression. Meanwhile, Kevin and Alex's school friend Adrian and two inmates of the local sheriff's office - the memory loss soldier Jonah and the drug addicted crook Mia - try to make their way to the shopping mall. On the way, Kevin reveals Adrian as a rapist. The convicted outsider then knocks down his foster father and escapes to the mall with Mia and Jonah, who have no idea of any of this.
Determined to do anything, Kevin comes to the rescue of his family at the end of the first season when they are pushed out of the department store by an angry mob. The family flees into the unknown in an army jeep with Mia and Sheriff Heisel, who had also advanced to the mall with a third group of survivors. Jonah travels with Adrian as a stowaway to a military base.
occupation
The synchronization of the series was created at VSI Synchron based on dialogue books by Zoë Beck and Daniel May under the dialogue direction of Beck.
role | actor | Voice actor |
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Kevin Copeland | Morgan Spector | Sven Gerhardt |
Eve Copeland | Alyssa Sutherland | Berenice Weichert |
Alex Copeland | Gus Birney | Lisa May-Mitsching |
Mia Lambert | Danica Curcic | Manja Doering |
Jonah Dixon / Bryan Hunt | Okezie Morro | Marios Gavrilis |
Jay Heisel | Luke Cosgrove | Bastian Sierich |
Sheriff Connor Heisel | Darren Pettie | Viktor Neumann |
Adrian Garff | Russell Posner | Sebastian Kluckert |
Nathalie Raven | Frances Conroy | Ulrike Möckel |
Pastor Romanov | Dan Butler | Thomas Schmuckert |
Gus Bradley | Isiah Whitlock Jr. | Dieter Memel |
Kyle | Romaine Waite | Jeffrey Wipprecht |
Kimi Lucero | Irene Bedard | Antje Thiele |
Tyler Denton | Christopher Gray | Amadeus Strobl |
Wes Foster | Greg Hovanessian | Christopher Kohn |
Vic | Erik Knudsen | Imme Aldag |
Shelley DeWitt | Alexandra Ordolis | Julia Blankenburg |
reception
The first season got mixed reviews. In the Internet Movie Database there was an average of 5.3 out of 10 points with over 5,200 ratings. The series received a rating of 61% on the review website Rotten Tomatoes . Of the 38 reviews evaluated, 23 were positive. Metacritic calculated a Metascore of 54 for Der Nebel , based on 25 reviews in English (as of August 26, 2017).
The pilot episode review by Serienjunkies.de criticized problems with the script and all-too-well-known Stephen King characters after the first episode of Der Nebel : "The characters come from the same Maine small-town archetype box as most of the King characters , the interpersonal drama seems half-baked and is only supposed to quickly build a dramaturgical house of cards into which the fog can slide. While all of this is quite nice to look at, many of the inserted plot points have really bumpy timing. "
Web links
- The fog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Spike Official Website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kristina Kielblock: The Mist: The Fog Comes to Netflix in August - Series Start in Germany! . July 31, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
- ↑ TheWrap.com, accessed on 28 September 2017
- ↑ German synchronous index | Series | The fog. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Der Nebel , in: Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on August 26, 2017
- ↑ Der Nebel , in: metacritic , accessed on August 26, 2017
- ↑ Mario Giglio: The Mist: Review of the pilot episode . In: Serienjunkies.de . June 23, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2018.