There must be something compelling about the end of the world, since nothing seems more popular in our entertainment these days than the brutal post-apocalypse. Every major network and streaming service needs one. HBO has The Last of Us. Apple TV+ has Silo. Netflix, to be fair, has a whole bunch, plucked from all over the world, but Argentinian series The Eternaut feels closest to the quintessential template of a prestige post-apocalypse. It's a character-focused slow-burn with striking visuals and very grim twists and turns, and like the shows above, it's based on something else - not a video game or a book, but a graphic novel, writer Héctor G. Oesterheld and illustrator Francisco Solano Lopez's 1957 one of the same name. I haven't read that graphic novel, so i don't know about the show's closeness to it. Showrunner Bruno Stagnaro could have adapted it panel by panel for all I know, but it looks great either way. The chilling - literally! - story of a Buenos Aires in complete collapse seems very much made for TV though, interspersing it's slower, character-driven moments with splashes of action and last-minute swerves timed with a watchmaker's precision to keep binge-watchers on the hook.

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