![]() Add to them a family of Danish Christians, two Spanish brothers, a geisha, a couple of French honeymooners, a wealthy multilingual woman travelling alone, a stowaway, an international crew, and a Polish engine room worker, and it’s a packed story. They all take their task extremely seriously and in the later episodes, succeed in selling some fairly outlandish scenes. Beecham is ably supported by Dark’s Andreas Pietschmann as the ship’s captain Eyk Larsen, and Peaky Blinders’ Aneurin Barnard as the intriguing, mysterious Daniel. The cast standout is The Pursuit of Love’s Emily Beecham as Maura Franklin, a British doctor plagued by intrusive visions and who’s looking for her missing brother. ![]() It’s very efficiently done, and give or take the matter of character names, it quickly becomes easy to differentiate those who make up the ensemble. Things were already complicated for the Kerberos’ passengers, each of whom is revealed to be harbouring secrets that play out Lost-style through flashback. Four months earlier, another of the company’s ships went missing, so when the Kerberos receives a set of mysterious coordinates, it goes off in search of the ghost ship and things get… complicated. It’s the story of the Kerberos, a steamship transporting 1,400 passengers from Southampton to New York City on the cusp of the 20 th century. ![]() They’ll want them too, because 1899, from the makers of hit Netflix series Dark, is a terrific-looking show and an intriguing puzzle to solve. Viewers not fluent in German, Spanish, French, Danish, Polish, English and more will need their reading glasses handy. Not only does its story slide between flashbacks, hallucinations, weird visual motifs and eye-widening cliffhanger twists, its huge cast of characters also all speak different languages. This eight-episode mystery series demands full attention. If 1899’s creators had been specifically instructed to make a TV series that’s impossible to watch while scrolling on your phone, they couldn’t have done a better job.
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