Gong Yoo excels in dystopian K-Drama ‘The Silent Sea’

Water holds a lot more than the ability of sustaining life in this sci-fi thriller series on Netflix

A month has passed since the dystopian Korean series The Silent Sea premiered on Netflix, but the show is still making news thanks to its relevancy. We have been living in a water crisis for years; nothing has changed and things have only worsened. The Silent Sea manages to tell us that even if we were to find a solution to the crisis, we would still be doomed.

The show begins in the not-so-distant future where the drinkable water on earth has dramatically decreased and the authorities have come up with a solution. A credit-card kind of system — divided into gold, silver or platinum — as per the purchasing power of people, has been devised; a crude comment on the current social play that inequality will persist and further widen, even in the face of an apocalyptic scenario. It reminds one of the recent ‘Inequality Kills’ report released by Oxfam.

In the face of imminent extinction, governments all around are scrambling to find an alternate source of water on moon. A team of scientists, engineers and military personnel are gathered by the Korean government to send them on the moon to retrieve a sample of water, called lunar water, in the facility where the earlier scientists had died mysteriously.