Archive 81 star hoping Netflix okays a second season

Get the Full StoryWith all the streaming releases these days, sometimes it s easy to miss a gem. To many, Netflix s adaptation of the popular audio drama podcast Archive 81 is one of those. Produced by horror maestro James Wan, this creepy story bends time and reality to terrifying effect. It follows Dan Mamoudou Athie as a conservator of damaged video recordings. He is hired by Virgil Martin Donovan , the head of a mysterious corporation, to restore a box of fire-damaged videotapes. These tapes were originally made decades before by Melody Dina Shihabi a woman who moved into a creepy apartment building, ostensibly to make a documentary about the residents in the historical artifice, but with a hidden motive: to find out what happened to her birth mother who gave her up for adoption.

Dan is offered a sizable fee for the work but with a catch. The tapes are too fragile to be moved and he has to stay by himself in a labyrinthine research campus out in the woods to do the work. When he pieces together the footage, he starts to unveil the truth behind the tapes, the fire that destroyed the building and Melody s life, and connections between these events and a fire that took the life of his own family around the same time. As more is revealed and Dan discovers his father s role in Melody s story, reality begins to unwind around him and many secrets are revealed including ones inside the very campus he is sequestered in.

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