The mission is met with disaster right away, and a crash landing on the moon (yes) is required. Head engineer RYU TAE-SUK ( Lee Joon, hearts!) and DOCTOR HONG ( Kim Sun-young, more hearts!) are among the others on Captain Han’s team. We get a brief introduction to the other players on board the spaceship, and get a sense of their chemistry. It’s a dangerous mission, as the base was previously contaminated by a radiation leak, killing everyone there and shutting down the base permanently. They’re meant to head to Balhae, the abandoned lunar base, and retrieve some samples that were left there.
She’s tapped for the mission to the moon, and joins CAPTAIN HAN (Gong Yoo) and the rest of his crew.
Bae Doo-na plays DOCTOR SONG JI-AN, a well-respected scientist who’s still in grief over a tragic loss. It’s in this dire position that we meet our two leads, and the rest of the crew that will soon be on their way to the moon. Citizens are given water rations based on their status, while government and other bureaucrats have quickly found a way to benefit themselves. Water is more valuable than gold, so it makes sense that it’s treated as a comparable commodity. And, as one might expect, this disaster has stratified its social classes even more. Quickly (frighteningly so), society has changed on a global level. In the near-future the drama projects, the Earth’s water has become incredibly scarce. Though the characters are well-drawn and relatable, The Silent Sea isn’t really about them at all - in a way, they’re just stand-ins for the human race and the desperate situation they find themselves in.
It’s eight episodes, but it feels incredibly spare, especially compared to the K-drama storytelling we’re used to. (Or is that moon high?) Either way, The Silent Sea is a bit of a perplexity. When you have Gong Yoo and Bae Doo-na as your top-billed cast, expectations are sky high. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but The Silent Sea does sci-fi just the way I like it: tense, slow, and cerebral, with bursts of violence, and a strong message about what it means to be human. The scene is the moon, and the setting is a dystopic near-future. Netflix’s latest original drama The Silent Sea premiered over the holiday weekend, and this time our genre is sci-fi. 58 DecemDecemThe Silent Sea: Episodes 1-8 (Series review) by missvictrix
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