France 2 is broadcasting the first episodes of its new disaster and ecological series, “Abysses”. In the cast, we find Cécile de France, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Karim and Joshua Odjick.
Abyss is the new event series not to be missed tonight. The first two episodes are to be discovered on France 2 this Monday, June 5, 2023, from 9:10 p.m. This is the adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s bestseller, which tells how the international scientific community organizes itself when a mysterious force from the depths of the ocean, created following climate change, uses the creatures under marines to destroy mankind.
It’s a real international cast that has been formed to Abyss. French viewers will recognize Cecile of Francewhile regulars of international series will be able to see the faces of Leonie Benesch (Around the world in 80 days), Alexander Karim (The Lawyer), Joshua Odjick (Unsettled), or even Barbara Sukowa, Krista Kosonen, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (seen in Game Of Thrones), Takuya Kimura, Eidin Jalali and Sharon Duncan-Brewster (from Star Wars: Rogue One).
But should we see the series Abyss on France 2? Yes, at least if you are not (yet) eco-anxious, Allociné recalling that if the subject of the series was totally current, even if the series has an “anxiogenic aspect”. The media specializing in cinema and series nevertheless salutes the visual and the acting, describing the series as “successful and captivating”. For its part, Télé-Loisirs praises the subject of the series and the themes “addressed in a clear and concrete way”, the French version is pinpointed, while criticizing it for not being entertaining enough to be effective: “boredom points thus regularly on the surface of Abyss” hammers the media specializing in television series.