Archive 81

Archive 81 is an American horror streaming television series showrun by Rebecca Sonnenshine, written by Paul Harris Boardman and executive produced by Sonnenshine, Boardman, and James Wan. The series is inspired by the podcast of the same name.Archive 81 Season 1 Download

It stars Mamoudou Athie and Dina Shihabi in leading roles. The series was released on January 14, 2022 on Netflix.On October 26, 2020, it was announced that Rebecca Sonnenshine would be the executive producer and showrunner of a horror television series for Netflix and Atomic Monster, with Paul Harris Boardman as writer and executive producer, and James Wan also executive producing. The series is inspired by the podcast of the same name.[1] On January 5, 2022, it was reported that Michael Clear, Rebecca Thomas, and Antoine Douaihy are executive producing the series as well.[2] Archive 81 was released on January 14, 2022 on Netflix.Netflix adds to its queue of creepy, macabre series with “Archive 81,” a time-bending thriller that counts horror director James Wan among its producers. Those eager for quick answers won’t find them, but the eight episodes plant enough bizarre seeds to effectively pull audiences through its fun-house mirror.Archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) gets recruited to reconstruct a collection of videotapes damaged in an apartment fire during the 1990s, hired by a mogul, Virgil (Martin Donovan), who might as well have “There’s More Going On Here” stamped across his forehead.Screening the footage in a remote location where the tapes are stored, Dan gets pulled deeper and deeper into the experience of a documentary filmmaker who shot them, Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi). Her experiences take center stage much of the time, flashing back (mixed with the footage she shot) to her hanging around the building, trying to avoid provoking suspicions while examining rumors of some sort of cult operating there.
The more Dan watches, the more the lines between past and present, between fantasy and reality, begin to blur, with the grainy video — and glitches that hint at the supernatural — compounding the difficulty in keeping them separate. That includes questions of what motivated Virgil to specifically seek out Dan, and assistance from Dan’s conspiracy-minded friend Mark (“How to Get Away With Murder’s” Matt McGorry), who is helpfully inclined to believe the worst.