Unseen Review: Better Than the Original In Every Way | Netflix Series
Cast: Gail Mabalane, Vuyo Dabula, Brendon Daniels, Hein de Vries
Creators: Travis Taute, Daryne Joshua
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Unseen South African series Netflix 6 finale season 1 The story of a woman cleaning the lower classes of society. who was forced by everything to become a serial killer who committed non-stop crimes? This is Netflix’s previous Turkish version, FATMA, and it’s excellent in almost every way. It can be said that it is a series that opens the world from Turkey for viewers to know that it is one of the countries with very high-quality works. Many Turkish series on Netflix work very well because he works in exporting designs for India, and Korea, but in the surrounding neighborhoods, His own country is the main. Something is fascinating about the premise of this new crime thriller series available on Netflix.
Beyond the stylistic features of the genre, now far too abused and gutted over the years, which don’t offer who knows what narrative twists, it cannot be said that Unseen, the series created by Travis Taute and Daryne Joshua, based on the series Turkish TV (always available on Netflix) Fatma, don’t have a particular and interesting idea on your side. Because, as the title suggests, the protagonist of this series is the invisible (or insignificant) cleaning lady Zenzi, who starting from the search for her husband will find herself playing an increasingly important role in criminal intrigue. But, as a result, she too rediscovers her own strong and dominant role. In our review of Unseen, we will tell you the strengths of this six-episode series on Netflix which finds the real glue in the leading actress, capable of keeping the viewer’s attention high despite a not particularly convincing and successful story.
Unseen Review: The Story Plot
Zenzi is a cleaner whose life seems to have turned away from her. Her son is dead, her husband Max has been in prison for years for being part of a network of criminals and her work doesn’t give her enough security to be able to pay the rent to the slimy landlord Enrico. But things are about to change: Max has served his sentence and the day of release from prison has finally arrived. Arriving near the prison to welcome him with open arms, Zenzi discovers that her husband has already left prison in the previous hours. No phone calls, no texts, he just disappeared into the wild. Our protagonist will therefore begin to investigate to try to understand where Max may have gone, fearing a settlement of accounts between criminal gangs.
The deeper Zenzi digs to get to the truth, the more her nature will begin to change. Because entering this network of crime, duplicity, and secrets will introduce her to an increasingly dirty, masculine and violent world. Enough to gradually transform her into a murderess. A transformation that Zenzi will experience by changing her behavior, becoming a different person, but always apparently invisible. Netflix’s take on this iteration this time comes from its policy of selecting good series from other countries, remakes, sell people on other continents, after which quite a lot of stories have already been made, such as the Korean version of the world robbery, and the Indian version of ELITE. With every remake, almost all of the original chapters are used. It’s playing safe and reduces costs at the same time. In this story as well, the story is still the same as the original FATMA, about 60-70% of the story, especially in the first half where the original scene is copied entirely.
But this story is different from that, it’s a work created by the same creator, Ozgur Onurme, who wrote + directed himself, as FATMA was set to end in 6 episodes, not continuation, although almost the end is open to continuing. When it came to this story, the creators had the opportunity to make new changes. Make the story bigger Increased the importance of some characters. Remove some of the clues in the original version that had a lot of them. Then keep it for later in Season 2, so it becomes a less concise version. Do not tie the ending of the story with various clues as well as before. production work South Africa’s location may not be as good as Turkey’s. Especially those camera angles that clearly show that the original has many scenes, very well done. It portrays the old city of Türkiye beautifully. which African countries have nothing like this already made the whole story look arid and barren, unsightly as before.
Unseen Review and Analysis
The great charm of this series, which manages to capture the viewer right from the start, thanks to an effective rhythm and a limited duration of the individual episodes (even if, we admit, once started it is difficult to stop) is in representing everyday life and Zenzi’s character and then, slowly, make her slide more and more into a violent spiral. How violent is the world in which she is immersed? The dilapidated house, the drunken owner who wants to possess it by force, the death in the family that marked her past, the secrets of her missing husband, but also the daily job or the few friends she has: Zenzi lives in the dirt, spends days cleaning the passage of other people’s lives, trying in every way to remain spotless.
Unseen succeeds in the difficult task of making the viewer perceive how Zenzi, step by step, begins to get dirty. And the most interesting factor is to discover that the protagonist does it consciously, denying that clean nature that has always distinguished her (and flashbacks in very warm tones prove it, denoting a lost paradise) to embrace that wickedness and that violent character that seems to belong to all the characters in the series. In all of this, Gail Mabalane proves to be an actress of character: the first scene is enough for her, in which we notice her already transformed, enclosed in hard armor, to make herself immediately interesting in the eyes of the spectator. We will immediately retrace the five days preceding that opening prologue, where we will find a different Zenzi, fragile and disoriented. Therefore, a rather voyeuristic gaze is assumed which makes us enjoy the mutation of the woman, from good to bad, from innocent to a murderess.
These rather interesting premises are not always enhanced by writing up to par. Despite the main mystery being its clues well, the episodes linger a lot on a cast of not very sharp characters, unable to raise the moral (and therefore exciting) caliber of the story. The numerous twists sometimes do not seem to affect the paper as much as they would like and the structure of the episode risks being a little too repetitive (in the third episode with the ending very similar to the previous two, part of the charm is lost). Let me be clear: the narration works, net of some functional dialogue only to dust off the viewer’s memory, thus eliminating even more the chiaroscuro that would certainly make the work more fascinating, and the more relaxed viewer can enjoy this journey in six episodes without reflecting too much on what he is observing, but we are left with a bitter taste in seeing that a decent miniseries has been satisfied with a quick wipe rather than looking for the most crystalline cleaning.
The part that has changed a lot Is the original story made in the genre of psychological drama where the environment puts pressure on the mind until it affects the crime of the heroine but in this version, adjusting this part of the story into a line, the heroine does not fall into a mental state. But the situation forced him to survive, and he had to kill. and went on to expand the villain to have a large criminal organization that was left behind in season 2 which is different from the original version, which is a line of mental illness of the heroine, causing him to kill the bad guys who have come through recklessly Which, originally, did well with much more reason also hides a small knot Related to the past helps to make the heroine’s reason for being a serial killer look more reasonable as well.
For example, the heroine’s child is autistic. But this version is a normal child. This new version has almost nothing like this until it is disappointing, despite the original creator. Overall, although the series is not even bad can also be called viewable There is an okay level of fun from the genre of home women. Get up and take revenge on the bad guys, which is not difficult to like in a plot like this. But if you look It is recommended to watch the Turkish version of FATMA because this is a series that is incomparably better in every aspect.
Unseen Review: The Last Words
Unseen is a 6-episode crime-thriller series that relies on the interpretation of the leading actress. With very interesting premises (an invisible cleaner who sinks into a violent world becoming a murderess), the series works in terms of rhythm and twists, even if the writing doesn’t shine particularly. Thus, Unseen has to be content with being a decent entertainment product, even if it had the potential to be something more.
