Peter Jahrling (Topher Grace), a civilian virologist, looks through the eyepiece of the microscope with Dr Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) and Ben Gellis (Paul James) in "The Hot Zone".

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Morale in the socks because of the pandemic?

On the occasion of the setting online this Tuesday of the

Hot Zone

miniseries

 on Salto,

20 Minutes

was full of anxiety-provoking series where the pandemic is much more catastrophic than ours.

What to cure the evil by the evil and relativize by saying that the situation could be much worse.

"Hot zone", available on Salto

A captivating science thriller! 

Hot Zone

, available on Salto, relates the terrifying discovery of the deadly Ebola virus in chimpanzees in a scientific laboratory in Reston, a town near Washington in the United States.

Risking her life, Nancy Jaax - played by Julianna Margulies who is putting on the white coat for the first time since Emergency -, a veterinarian of the American army, will try to stop the epidemic before it spreads to the human population.

"The Stand", available January 3, 2021 on Starzplay

An apocalyptic vision signed Stephen King in 1978 and known in France as the

Scourge

.

In

The Stand,

available January 3, 2021 on Starzplay, a virus, released by mistake from an American laboratory, decimates the majority of the world population (its death rate is 99.4%!).

All the survivors are haunted by strange dreams: some by Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the embodiment of evil in several Stephen King novels, others by Mother Abigaël (Whoopi Goldberg), a centenary who symbolizes good.

The struggle between good and evil can begin!

"Utopia", available on Amazon Prime Video

Here is a hallucinated thriller in eight episodes, stamped Gillian Flynn, the author

Gone Girl

and

Sharp Objects

.

Utopia

is the American adaptation of the British series of the same name (available on MyCanal).

She follows a small community of very invested fans of a strange and macabre

comic book

, entitled

Dystopia

.

Sam, Becky, Ian and Wilson don't know each other, but chatting together on comics all day long.

According to them, this book would have predicted the arrival of several health crises such as swine flu, SARS, zika, etc.

Its sequel,

Utopia,

never published, would contain the catastrophes to come.

When the manuscript goes on sale at a convention, they decide to acquire it together.

The group then embarks on a perilous adventure to try to save humanity.

"The Rain", available on Netflix

It's kind of a teen drama version of

The Walking Dead.

In the Danish series

The Rain

, a strange pandemic is spread by rain.

In order to take shelter, Simone, (Alba August, the daughter of the big Bille August) and her brother Rasmus (Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen), are thrown in extremis into a bunker by their father, a scientist who works for the company Apollo where we seem to know why death falls from the sky.

When they leave the bunker, six years later, they discover a world where the population has been almost completely decimated by toxic rain, where each puddle represents a danger of death and each person crosses a threat.

They integrate a group of young survivors, led by Martin (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), ready to do anything to defend his gang.

"The Revolution", available on Netflix

This uchrony takes place in the Kingdom of France in 1787, two years before the storming of the Bastille.

The people are starving, the nobility is fat.

Any comparison with the history of France stops there.

Investigating a series of mysterious murders, Joseph Guillotin, a young and handsome doctor (and future inventor of the machine to behead the nobility), discovers a strange virus, blue blood.

This pandemic spreads and pushes the aristocracy to attack the peoples in order to survive.

Joseph Guillotin and the rebel Elise de Montargis will try to stop the evil.

The revolt will rumble and hemoglobin will squirt.

"The Walking Dead: World Beyond", available on Amazon Prime Video

After nine seasons of

The Walking Dead

and five of the

Fear the Walking Dead

spin-off

, Robert Kirkman's zombies are invading a new series,

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

, available on Amazon Prime Video.

This spin-off follows the adventures of two sisters, the wise Iris (Aliyah Royale, seen in

The Red Line

) and the intrepid Hoppe (Alexa Mansour, seen in

How to Get Away with Murder

), two teenage girls belonging to the first generation. having grown up after the apocalypse in the enclosure of a secure area, safe from the living dead.

With the help of their friends Felix (Nico Tortorella, seen in

Younger

) and Elton (Nicolas Cantu, seen in

The Good Place

), the two young women will leave their cocoon to find their father, defying the threat at the same time. zombies and the adults of this mysterious organization whose famous three-ring logo was seen on the helicopter taking Rick Grimes into the mother series.

"Boca A Boca", available on Netflix

This Brazilian thriller mixes discovery of sexuality, pandemic and panic.

The

Boca A Boca series

takes place in a small rural town in Brazil, specializing in breeding.

It all starts when a young girl wakes up the day after a drunken party with a strange hangover.

Very quickly, the teenagers of the city will understand that it is about an infection which is transmitted by the kiss, from where the title, which one can translate by "mouth-to-mouth".

Will the epidemic be brought under control before it is too late?

Psychosis grows in high school as teenagers have to deal with the infection, strive to hide the truth from adults and manage the dramas (inherent in their age) linked to the vector of transmission of the disease ... which reveals secrets so far well hidden.

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