A solar storm hits the Earth causing a widespread blackout around the world. In this new reality, five stories of characters are developed who struggle to adapt to a new world in which there is no electricity or telecommunications, no welfare state or means of transportation and in which they will have to face their needs, instincts and fears. more basic. Five stories, as different as at the same time so complementary. Five episodes, five directors, five different protagonists. Unlike other anthology series, what is most striking about ‘Blackout’ is that in the end, once seen as a whole, the predominant feeling is that it is a single story fragmented into five well-differentiated parts that each works one for itself. Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodríguez and Isaki Lacuesta. Each one brings a particular perspective and tone to what, although it may seem so, is not an apocalyptic story nor is it catastrophic. It is, rather, a humanistic approach to the premise with which ‘2013: Rescue in LA’ ended. What happens when everything that seemed to matter to us… disappears and ceases to be an option? A new world where humans must wake up, use their own hands and above all, act for themselves in some way. Nobody knows anything, except that like all animals the instinct is to survive. Without neglecting some of the usual resources of post-apocalyptic cinema, ‘Blackout’ stands as a unique proposal that poses its own scenario that also feels authentic and real. Precisely where ‘El collapse’ failed miserably, in the falsity of a sequence shot that tinged everything with a hollow theatrical artificiality, ‘Blackout’ acquires truth, voice and vote. Although like the aforementioned French production, like in fact many anthology series, each story leaves us wanting more and wondering why five chapters and not five movies. Or why only five can be six. Perhaps, because like this, lasting as long as it lasts, it is more than enough to question the only ‘but’ that a server finds: That they know little… although they cover, from start to finish and in general terms, the bulk of the intended story. A picture that arises from the concatenation of five independent but interlinked stories that structure and evoke a wide range of emotions of all kinds. Emotions usually wrapped in a thin but perceptible layer of optimism and hope: That of a humanity that, we suppose, is aware for the most part of what is right and wrong, although nobody tells you what is right or wrong. ‘Blackout’ is not only the new great Movistar Plus+ series, it is also an excellent series that shines in how direct, precise and forceful its commitment to human beings is.