And yes, he is still here to save it, as more of its inhabitants are taken by the chaos.Īnother aspect that I loved about it, may just be inherent in its Iceland shooting locations, but so reflective of the character of a town on top of glacier, is the architecture. The infection has merged with folklore, and Dan becomes the Demon that threatens the whole town. He does this tilt of his head, not a cute dog "baroo" at all, with a Cheshire smile that could eat your whole head. When Season Two comes along, Dan has lost his mind, survived his own infection and we are even more unsure of whether he is Good or Bad. But he's also obsessed with Elena who works at the hotel, in a rather scary, stalker manner. He's a good cop, skilled and even toned, supportive of his staff and protective of Fortitude. Is he a good sheriff or a bad sheriff, is a line that describes his whole character in the show. There is political intrigue, betrayal and again, aspects of horror.ĭan was and still is my focus of attention. The plot of the infection has altered much the way the infection does itself, and there are scifi aspects of the infection leaving some of its hosts with miraculous powers of regeneration. This is all thriller tension and mystery.
While the season begins with a murder, there is no procedural here at all.
Dan Anderssen has disappeared and his second is barely hanging on. The WHO has come in, cleansed the infection vector and isolated the surviving infected. But Fortitude has survived, as it is a town of survivors. The infection has been identified, the infected caught before they can do more harm and a a woman has been eaten alive, from the inside, by wasp larva. Season One ends with a climax but very little in the way of answers. Aspects of The Thing creep in, and we don't know who is infected and who might turn at any moment. Hundreds of thousands? The virus/parasite forces the infected to attack someone else, and expel more maggots/parasites into the other person. And not just virus but the transmission method, a parasite that inhabits wasp larva that have been frozen in a mammoth graveyard under a glacier, for millions of years. The most chilling part (pun intended) is the virus. Flawed characters are the norm, as no one comes to Fortitude because their lives were going well elsewhere. Brits, Irish, Americans, Russians, Norwegians and even local Sami folk are all tossed together in close quarters in cold weather and the ever present fear that a polar bear may wander in and eat people. The mixture of standard British procedural with plague story is enhanced by the myriad of different cultures interacting with each other. Murders and primeval diseases don't make good PR. On top of this, the Governor of the community is doing her best to keep alive her dream of setting up an ice hotel, to prop up the failing mining interests. Friction between competing investigations is escalated by the presence of a mysterious ailment, one that drives people mad and is connected to the original murder. As the investigation continues, an American detective based out of London flies in, Stanley Tucci. Not long after, a local scientist (Christopher Eccleston) is horrifically murdered, slashed and stabbed. The show begins with a bear mauling and an accidental shooting, that is quickly covered up by the Sheriff Dan Anderssen (Richard Dormer Beric Dondarrion on Games of Thrones).
#WONDERFALLS CHRIS PRATT HOW TO#
I sort of fantasized bringing a giant box of BFFs (big fat fantasies) with me, and teaching all the military types how to play D&D. Imagine the isolation, being trapped with the same people day in, day out. The money would have been incredible, but I was at the beginning of my relationship and I don't deal well with unknowns and loneliness. I was working for the Dept of Defense then, and they are always looking for short term computer nerds nobody is allowed to be there for more than 6 months. One of my fondest regrets was a logical choice I made in my youth, when I was offered a 6 month position in Alert, Nunavut. Now, add the fictional town of Fortitude, populated by an international group of hundreds but only four cops, and introduce a murder. Technically its not part of Norway, but they run the show. Mining and research are the primary things going on there. Svalbard, an island off the coast of Norway in the Arctic Circle.
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