So begins one of those rabbit-hole yarns where someone who we don’t believe is delusional increasingly seems that way to their anxious loved ones, because most of their evidence is in their head, and the only people who can corroborate their theories have also had their lives blighted by The Event. It’s the sort of show where the hero takes delivery of a Jiffy bag containing an old cassette player and an anonymous note requesting a meeting, and then the meeting turns out to be at a disused fairground. There’s a dash of Ring, a waft of Stranger Things, a memory of The Returned and a flavour of The Da Vinci Code, all brewed into an overall spookiness that covers the many plot holes – most of them of the “main character fails to ask obvious follow-up question” kind – with a smothering fog.Equinox All Seasons Free Download.
That’s fine if it’s just to fix the narrative, but Equinox takes a risk by mixing fantastical gubbins with some dead-serious issues. The young and old Astrid are properly disturbed by their nightmares, and the early episodes in particular are a duck call for viewers who see themselves in a woman dogged by overthinking, anxiety and perhaps even psychosis. Astrid’s mental health is integral to the plot: it’s a riddle wrapped in a diagnosis. Sometimes, it feels as if we’re toying with trauma like a teenager messing with a Ouija board.
Equinox also proves to be a show about how differing reactions to loss can pull apart those left behind; about how parents can’t ever be certain that the decisions they make for their children are right, but know the wrong ones can stay with their kids for ever; and about how sad or vulnerable people are susceptible to conspiracy theory and belief in myths. Such recognisable, mundane concerns are, in the best tales about someone who may or may not be experiencing the supernatural, delicately played off against the flickering possibility that magic might actually happen.