We are in year one of Putin's brutal war of conquest.
Fear of an impending energy emergency has gripped the entire West.
The whole west?
No!
A country inhabited by indomitable oddballs does not cease to resist Teutonic apocalypticism.
From Austria we have just now received a humorous mini-series about a Europe-wide blackout and the subsequent collapse of civilization, which despite all the drama - the beer is getting warm, food is scarce, medicines are missing, waterworks work just as little as gas stations or prison gates, marauding gangs move across Land - that's the only way to burst with bright joie de vivre, happy team building energy and pure fun.
"Everything dark" is something like the optimistic Austrian abusive answer to the elaborate German end-time series "8 Days" (2019), which is more realistic but also much more desperate.
The world is ending, but our village isn't
The world may end, but this sunny village, Kekenberg an der Della, is seeing its best days.
And that, although it seems to be inhabited almost entirely by sympathetic goons, all deep-seated injuries are now being brought to light and the archenemy, the sneaky Muckenberg next door (home to a butcher shop and the voluntary fire brigade), is doing everything possible to achieve the small successes the Kekenberger to nullify in terms of survival.
Ironically, the major power outage occurred during a senior football match against the Muckenbergers that went unfavorably for Kekenberg, and one can bet that the interrupted game will be brought to an end in its own way.
BR, who is experienced in provincial comedies, was also involved in this series, which was largely initiated by the ORF and produced by the Austrian Allegro Film and penned by Selina Gina Kolland.
The director Michael Riebl has set the story in cosily comfortable, anything but sinister images that are able to defy the thoroughly believable catastrophic superstructure on their own.
From the collapse of infrastructure and order, copied according to Kolland Marc Elsberg's thriller "Blackout", viewers and characters learn through radio announcements, which are still possible thanks to emergency power generators.
The only subplot in a sleepy military base
The preppers have taken precautions
A mood of doom swings alone in the fears of the ex-soccer player Laura (Miriam Fussenegger; the Salzburg "Amour" of 2016), who recently moved from Vienna to Kekenberg with her husband (Michael Edlinger), who was willing to integrate, and in the gloomy predictions of the village factotum Norbert (Christian Strasser ) with, but Laura has incessant panic attacks anyway (she once messed up a decisive penalty), and Norbert is a practicing lizardman conspiracy theorist: "It happens!
Get it to safety!”