This month, Verve’s star teen movie reviewer Lucy Kennedy gets stuck into the mysterious French sci-fi series, Parallels.
Parallels
Rated 12+
Teenagers Romane, Sam, Victor, and Bilal gather in the heart of the woods at a long-abandoned bunker to celebrate Bilal’s birthday. All is well and all are in high spirits when suddenly a bizarre power outage plummets them into darkness. When the light is restored, Romane, Bilal and Victor have disappeared, leaving Sam alone. During those five seconds, the universe rolled its dice and gambled on parallel worlds. Everything has been repositioned, with different versions of the teens at different points in their lives sent into multiverses at random.
The progression of the character’s lives in their different parallel universes is extremely well thought out, their intertwining storylines cleverly meeting up and aligning throughout series. And it’s visually stunning thanks to its atmospheric French mountain setting.
I found Parallels to be engaging, amusing, and, at times, moving. I also appreciated how well the science behind the parallel universe plot is explained in a thought-provoking and informative way. Could there really be universes out there parallel to our own?
For those that don’t speak French, Parallels is available in English audio or with subtitles. 4/5 stars
Watch this series on Disney+
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