If I am nostalgic for some television series, it is for two very specifically. Originally for domestic consumption, Tell Me How It Happened, has two exceptional protagonists in Ana Duato and Imanol Arias, leading a formidable cast, which lasted 22 seasons. Quality is appreciated much more now, when there are so many series below minimums… including the Turkish ones.
The other nostalgia is Cosmos, international and scientific, which appeared in 1980. Its director and producer was Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, who knew how to take us into the universe from space observatories of increasing capacity, through which we will know, one day, about dark energy and matter, and other unknowns about black holes and other celestial bodies will be cleared up.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was a very active person with many ideas, and the main promoter of the Washington Conference of Scientists. In which gringos and Soviets, in the middle of the Cold War in 1983, jointly announced nuclear winter; If only a third of the nuclear stock in the arsenals of the USSR and the USA were used, we would have endless fires on our planet, nights of months, with the loss of food production due to the disappearance of sunlight.
The second version of Cosmos (2014) was not far behind. With all the devotion to Sagan of his disciple Neil deGrasse Tyson, who knew how to follow in the master’s footsteps, with an entire history of science parallel to truly formidable cartoons.
Season 3 of the Cosmos series, titled “Cosmos: Possible Worlds”, was presented in March 2020 through National Geographic, by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself, who keeps Sagan’s legacy alive, with 13 dense new episodes. Don’t miss it, on Prime Video: in the midst of so much nothingness to see, television, with products like those reviewed, is an instrument of the highest interest.