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1899 navigates its multicultural passengers through an atmospheric mystery and delivers a suspenseful journey, even if it may never reach a satisfying destination.

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Jantje Friese

Baran bo Odar

Emily Beecham

Maura Franklin

Aneurin Barnard

Andreas Pietschmann

Miguel Bernardeau

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘1899’ On Netflix, Where A Migrant Sea Voyage Finds An Abandoned Ship And Mysteries Abound

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1899 : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: We see clouds and a churning ocean. “The brain is wider than the sky,” says a woman in voice over as she starts to recite Emily Dickinson’s poem.

The Gist: Maura Franklin (Emma Beecham) is on the Kerberos, a migrant ship whose destination is New York. She wakes up from a nightmare that shows a massive black pyramid and the image of the missing ship Prometheus, which has been lost for 4 months with no sign that it sank. On the ship are hundreds of people of different nationalities and levels of wealth, all looking for a new opportunity in the U.S..; the Prometheus was another ship from the same line, so intrigue among the passengers is high.

During breakfast, a steerage passenger busts in looking for medical help for his sister. Maura, who studies the brain, is the only doctor willing to help, and manages to turn the fetus so that its umbilical cord isn’t wrapped around it. Word gets to the world-weary captain, Eyk Larsen (Andreas Pietschmann), that a first class passenger like Maura was down in steerage, which isn’t allowed. She challenges him on it, but the argument is short-circuited when the captain gets word that a mysterious signal is coming from a coordinate seven hours away.

Larsen makes a bold choice to go off-course to meet the signal, over the objection of most of the first-class passengers, who just want to arrive in New York and start their new lives. But they go to the signal, which is coming from what looks like an abandoned Prometheus. An away party, led by the captain and including Maura, goes to the darkened ship. They have no idea about what they are about to find.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? 1899 has the same slow pace and sense of foreboding as the first season of The Terror .

Our Take: Showrunners Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar ( Dark ) have set up an intriguing supernatural mystery series with the first episode of 1899 . We get glimpses of some of the other people on the ship who are trying to make fresh starts, and they all seem to have something to hide.

Ling Yi (Isabella Wei), a young Chinese woman, and her minder, Yuk Je (Gabby Wong), are pretending to be Japanese; Ling even wears geisha gear and makeup. Clémence (Mathilde Ollivier) and Lucien (Jonas Bloquet) are Parisian aristocrats who are newly married but seem to have no sex life or any other kind of romantic chemistry. Ángel (Miguel Bernardeau) is a wealthy Spanish businessman who is traveling with his Ramiro (José Pimentão), who seems to be befuddled about being a priest.

That amount of intrigue, plus the mysterious boy they find on the abandoned ship — he’s also holding a mysterious black pyramid — should make up for the very slow-moving first episode. As the away team searches the Prometheus, there’s a ton of darkness, lots of places where they see broken equipment and marvel over the fact that the signal stopped as soon as they got on board. We get a lot of scenes where Maura shows how virtuous she is. But the story doesn’t particularly move quickly.

Maybe as we dig into the back stories of the other passengers, things will pick up. But we get wary of shows that choose long shots of an abandoned ship over character development or plot movement, and 1899 will very easily slip into a too-languid pace if it’s not careful.

Sex and Skin: Some very unsexy sex between Clémence and Lucien, but that’s about it in the first episode.

Parting Shot: As “White Rabbit” plays, Maura looks at the black pyramid carried by the boy that’s found on the Prometheus.

Sleeper Star: Rosalie Craig is Virginia Wilson, a British socialite who is somehow very involved with Ling Yi and Yuk Je. We definitely wonder what their big secrets are.

Most Pilot-y Line: Somehow, Ángel is able to communicate with Krester (Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen), the steerage passenger who needed help with his pregnant sister. Is it being in the presence of the mysteries of the Prometheus? That’s the only reason we can think of, else a Spaniard saying “You have an interesting face” to a Dane makes no sense.

Our Call: STREAM IT. Although 1899 starts off achingly slow, there are enough storylines going on that we hope things pick up as the mysteries surrounding the Prometheus deepen.

Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.

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1899 review – this painfully slow sci-fi show is absolutely agonising

The horror-mystery from the creators of German hit Dark follows the steamship Cerberus on a voyage beset by bizarre happenings. It’s dour, obtuse and oppressive – enjoy!

J antje Friese and Baran bo Odar may not be household names, but they are arguably two of the most influential figures in streaming. Their sci-fi series Dark was Netflix’s first German-language original and proved a hit with audiences and critics across the globe, paving the way for Squid Game, Lupin, All Of Us Are Dead and a more global outlook to programming.

Two years after the finale of their time-travelling, parallel universe-incorporating conspiracy drama – and a brilliantly clever conclusion that somehow solved the grandfather paradox – the Dark team return. Their new series, 1899, is another horror-mystery puzzle box with a sci-fi edge. In this case, the setting is a grand steamship crossing the Atlantic, where class keeps various segments of the passengers from interacting. 1899 is set 13 years before the Titanic came afoul of an iceberg, but the parallels are clear, with roaring engine rooms and a preternaturally still ocean that the characters attribute to it “sensing death”.

The ship itself is sinisterly named the Cerberus, after the many-headed monstrous dog that was said to guard Hades. To make matters more ominous still, four months earlier a ship on the same voyage vanished without a trace. That ship, the Prometheus (equally sinisterly named after the Titan doomed to spend eternity having his liver devoured by an eagle), lets off a distress signal that is detected by the Cerberus mid-voyage and, after a short debate, it is decided that the hell dog ship and eternally tormented titan ship should finally meet.

Aboard the Cerberus is a motley crew from around the world, and the series is performed in French, English, Cantonese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish and German. At the centre of the rabble is Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham), a doctor with a mysterious past, while the moral compass is provided by Ramiro (José Pimentão), a Spanish priest also fleeing a mysterious past. The ship itself is captained by Eyk Larsen (Andreas Pietschmann), who is haunted by visions of his own, you guessed it, mysterious past. Each actor has a natural screen presence, particularly Yann Gael as ex-soldier Jerome. But the ensemble struggles by not being distinct enough from one another, with each actor’s emotions running the narrow gamut of confusion and/or anger. Despite a myriad of languages being spoken, most of the dialogue seems to be just filling time between sci-fi plot machinations. With the tone repeatedly playing from such a limited selection of notes, the plot twists can’t compensate for how oppressively dour it all is.

In the six episodes of the eight-episode season made available for review, 1899 throws a lot of ideas at the wall. There’s travel through time and space, secret portals, creepy children and a light sprinkling of pro-immigration politics, but the pacing is ultimately more confounding than the sci-fi. Episodes range from languid to gruelling, crawling towards the next plot point with a frequently agonising level of restraint. This becomes lightly comical by the midway point, where there are such long pauses between the spartan dialogue that they may as well just count out the number of minutes the episode is contractually obligated to take.

The victims provide little insight into events beyond puzzled expressions followed by a breathy “None of this makes sense”, and even the villains speak in abstract, only alluding to their motives with lines such as: “They need to shift their perspective to see the whole scope of things.” By the time the 100th character has been cut off just before they were about to learn the truth, it’s hard to know whether to be annoyed or impressed by how steadfastly obtuse 1899 is. But the detrimental effect of its vagueness is no better embodied than when, following a harrowing series of deaths, a character inexplicably announces that they “don’t think they are really dead”. It might do just enough to keep the sci-fi possibilities open, but it ends up detracting from the power of the tragedy we just saw.

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If Dark is anything to go by, it’s worth holding out hope that the series’ conclusion will be its apex. But given the six hours of required viewing ahead of the final act, it’s unlikely that the adventures of the Cerberus will capture the imagination of international audiences like Friese and bo Odar’s maiden voyage did.

'1899' on Netflix: That Ending Explained and Your Questions Answered

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In 1899, Emily Beecham plays Maura Franklin.

If you've just finished 1899 , the latest Netflix mystery show from the creators of Dark , you might still be pondering over that bewildering ending. So let's try and figure things out.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Netflix show 1899.

The show starts off as what appears to be a straightforward period piece with a little mystery. But complications start to grow, and the show piles layer upon layer, leading viewers to compare it to the much-buzzed-about drama Lost , which moved from seemingly straightforward plane-crash show to sci-fi and supernatural mystery series.

Let's break down what's going on, with plenty of spoilers.

Put on the subtitles

First off, before you watch the show, go into your streaming options and change it so the show displays subtitles rather than the dubbed version. As we explain , the characters come from many different countries and speak many different languages. But that's part of the plot -- there are scenes where we need to know that a character doesn't understand another person's language. The subtitles clear that up, while the dubbed version clouds the matter.

Most people will get a better experience if they set their audio to "English [Original]" and their subtitles turned on and set to "English [CC]."

The plot basics

The show is set on the steamship Kerberos, taking a group of people from London to New York. You'll get Titanic vibes -- some of the passengers are rich and living it up first-class in giant private cabins, while others are stuck in second or third class.

The characters are from all over the world and have very different backgrounds. Viewers soon learn everyone has a secret, and a reason to be fleeing Europe for the New World. The show begins by following Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham), a neurologist and one of the few female doctors in the UK, traveling alone. Her brother, Ciaran (though his name is hardly used), disappeared four months ago, at the same time that another steamship from this same boat company, the Prometheus, simply vanished while at sea. Heck yeah, that's a promising beginning.

Isabella Wei in 1899.

Some major characters

There are so many passengers and crew on 1899, all with fascinating backstories. But the show introduces them fairly slowly and distinctively, so they're easy to keep separated in your mind. Here are just a few:

Captain Eyk Larsen

Eyk Larsen (Andreas Pietschmann) is the German captain of the Kerberos. He drinks -- and you would, too -- because he's haunted by the horrific loss of his entire family in a house fire. When the Kerberos comes across the almost empty Prometheus, Eyk decided to tow the other ship back to Europe, which causes a mutiny, as few people on his ship want to return to where they came from.

Tove and family

Tove (Clara Rosager) is a pregnant woman from Denmark, and Maura helps her out early on with a pregnancy complication. She's traveling with her family, but no husband, and there's a horrific story behind her pregnancy. Family members are with her on the ship, including parents Anker and Iben, brother Krester and sister Ada.

Daniel Solace

Daniel (Aneurin Barnard), sneaks over to the Kerberos from the Prometheus, and is so mysterious that, at first, it's hard to tell if he's a good guy or a bad one. He definitely has some skills -- he carries some kind of sliding panel that appears to make the ship vanish, and he releases bright green bugs that can open doors. But like everything on 1899, his role is complicated. Without giving too much away (full spoilers further down), he's very important to Maura.

Ramiro and Angel

Ramiro (José Pimentão) presents himself as a Spanish priest, but there's a story behind that, of course. He's traveling with Angel (Miguel Bernardeau), a rich and handsome Spanish man, and they've got secrets, too.

Ling Yi and Yuk Je

Ling Yi (Isabella Wei) appears to be a lovely, young Japanese geisha, traveling with her stern-faced mother, Yuk Je (Gabby Wong). Their past begins to unfold and nothing, even their nationality, is as it seems.

Elliot, aka The Boy

A boy who seems unable to speak and is found aboard the Prometheus.

Fflyn Edwards plays a mysterious boy in 1899.

Clémence and Lucien

Clémence (Mathilde Ollivier) and Lucien (Jonas Bloquet) are French newlyweds who don't seem to care for each other too much. He's a French Foreign Legion veteran.

Jérôme

Jérôme (Yann Gael) is a French stowaway on board the Kerberos, and a war buddy of Lucien.

Virginia Wilson (Rosalie Craig) is a British brothel madam who intends to market Ling Yi in America as a Japanese courtesan. Ling Yi, we learn, wasn't the original woman intended for this role, but accidentally killed the intended woman while attempting to spike her drink and steal her place on the ship.

The Kerberos

The Kerberos is a character all its own. This isn't your typical 1899 steamship. There are secret passageways in some of the cabins that take passengers back to important days in their lives and bright green bugs that can open doors. A black material begins growing out of the walls and even affects Virginia's hand, creeping up her body, like greyscale in Game of Thrones. And the ship's name may be more familiar to many as Cerberus, the three-headed hound of Hades, who guarded the gates to the Underworld in Greek mythology, preventing the dead from leaving. Just as the passengers on the ship were (mostly) prevented from moving on.

What's with that ending?

Major spoilers ahead.

1899 has eight complex episodes, all of which slowly expose the secret pasts of the people on board and the secrets of the Kerberos. If that were enough, it'd be a satisfying but simplistic Agatha Christie-like story. But instead, this story wanted to be "Lost" at sea. The missing Prometheus isn't just a missing boat, and strange supernatural and scientific happenings are afoot.

It's all a simulation

But in the end, it turns out that the whole ocean voyage is a simulation created by Maura, who does not remember creating it.

Daniel is Maura's husband, and Elliot was their son. When Elliot died, Maura tried to keep him alive by transferring his consciousness to the virtual world, where she and Daniel could spend time with him in a colorful, bunker-like playroom. And apparently genius Maura designed her simulation so others with dead loved ones could reunite with them.

Daniel is desperately trying to wake Maura up to free everyone. ("WAKE UP!" is a recurring motif of each episode's beginning.) A key Maura has, and the pyramid Elliot is found with, will release everyone. But Daniel has changed the exit codes so they now reside in a different pyramid toy, and in Maura's own wedding ring.

Maura's dad isn't really the mastermind

Maura's father, Henry (Anton Lesser), the owner of the shipping company, is observing the simulation from his modern-day office. It seems at first like he created the simulation, but really, it was Maura, and he's as helpless as the passengers.

It was her missing brother all along

Remember Maura worrying about her brother, Ciaran, supposedly lost on the Prometheus? He actually is the one keeping his sister, Maura, and their father, Henry, trapped in the simulation.

'Lost' in space

When Maura finally wakes to reality, she's actually on a spaceship in the year 2099, along with the passengers from the Kerberos. A menacing message from Ciaran welcomes her back to reality, and a computer message mentions "Project Prometheus." So the sibling battle for reality appears far from over.

Will there be a second season of 1899?

Sadly, no. Creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar told Deadline they'd like it to be a multiseason show. But then on Jan. 2, the creators shared that Netflix won't be making a second season of 1899.

"With a heavy heart we have to tell you that 1899 will not be renewed," the statement read. "We would have loved to finish this incredible journey with a 2nd or 3rd season as we did with Dark. But sometimes things don't turn out the way you planned. That's life."

So looks like Maura will be forever stuck in space, and fans will have to finish the story in their own imaginations.

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A photo of Isabella Wei in Netflix’s 1899.

We’re living in a good time for fans of puzzle box TV shows. Between the Yellowjackets plane crash , Severanc e’s creepy-ass office , and the big hole in Outer Range , there’s lots to occupy your fan theory group chats. Joining that ever-growing list is 1899 on Netflix — and it’s a doozy. The eight-episode-long series packs a frankly astonishing number of mysteries and twists into its runtime, making it an ideal binge. I’m still not entirely sure what, if anything, it all means, but I had a blast trying to fit the pieces together.

1899 comes to us from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the same creative team behind another Netflix thriller, the German series Dark . 1899 is a multilingual affair. It takes place on a passenger ship during (obviously) the year 1899, and the vessel is carrying a group traveling from Europe to the US. There’s a newlywed French couple (Mathilde Ollivier and Jonas Bloquet), a brooding German captain (Andreas Pietschmann), a Spanish priest and his spoiled brother (José Pimentão and Miguel Bernardeau), a Chinese mother and daughter (Gabby Wong and Isabella Wei), Polish and English coal shovelers, and a lower deck stuffed with poor Danish passengers, among many others. It’s an ensemble affair, but at the center of it all is Maura (Emily Beecham), an English woman who studies medicine but can’t actually practice because she’s a woman.

As is common in these kinds of stories, the characters don’t have much in common at first, aside from the fact that they’re running away from something — and they’re all hiding an important secret. As in the early days of Lost , each episode opens with a flashback to a specific character, giving you a bit of insight into who they are and why they’re on the ship. That would be enough drama, but 1899 isn’t content to be a character study. Things get downright strange pretty quickly.

The mysteries feel par for the course for a story about a bunch of people stuck on a boat. But then the ship comes into contact with the Prometheus, a nearly identical boat that mysteriously sunk four months prior. There are possible ghost sightings and a fog so thick it would make Stephen King proud. There are characters with lost memories, unclear motivations, and eventually, even a mutiny as people die and angers flare. But those early reveals become tame in comparison to the true reality of 1899 .

That takes a while, however. It’s really not until the final few minutes that the scale of the show becomes evident. Before that, you’re treated to far too many clues and mysteries to count. Seriously, this is a show you’ll want to pay very close attention to, partly because you won’t want to miss important details but also because the dialogue is in multiple languages. The camera loves to linger over clues, making sure you notice the number of a room cabin or the text in a handwritten letter.

The fun of the show is less in the ultimate reveal and more in following all of the small and strange details that get you to that point. It won’t be long before you’re spotting triangles and pyramids everywhere . It’s really hard to say too much without spoiling things, but I can confirm that, despite being a puzzle box narrative connoisseur, I still found myself frequently unable to figure out where the show was headed, which was refreshing. Just when I thought I had a grasp on things, some bizarre new wrinkle was introduced.

There are a few oddities. The show has a very strange tendency to end each episode with a classic rock song, which feels entirely out of place amidst its otherwise harsh industrial score. And the characters really love to monologue in front of people who have no idea what they’re saying because of the language differences. These monologues aren’t necessarily bad, but it’s hard to believe the other passengers would sit around nodding along when they don’t understand a single word. I should also warn that it’s a pretty grim story, all grey and gloom, with very little humor and one particularly disturbing depiction of sexual violence.

For mystery fans, though, it’s the ideal kind of show: one that, even if you aren’t satisfied by the ending, is a blast to talk about. I’ve been DMing everyone I know, telling them to watch, just so I have people to swap theories with (especially now that Twitter is, let’s say, preoccupied ). There are few better distractions than asking your friends why one of the crew members’ face won’t heal or figuring out why there are shimmering bugs on a ghost ship.

1899 is streaming now on Netflix.

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Netflix’s 1899 Review: An Addictive, Mind-Boggling Mystery

From the makers of Dark, 1899 is Event Horizon meets Titanic. You won’t have a clue what’s going on, but you’ll be too hooked to care.

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If 1899 ’s creators had been specifically instructed to make a TV series that’s impossible to watch while scrolling on your phone, they couldn’t have done a better job. This eight-episode mystery series demands full attention. Not only does its story slide between flashbacks, hallucinations, weird visual motifs and eye-widening cliffhanger twists, its huge cast of characters also all speak different languages. Viewers not fluent in German, Spanish, French, Danish, Polish, English and more will need their reading glasses handy.

They’ll want them too, because 1899 , from the makers of hit Netflix series Dark , is a terrific-looking show and an intriguing puzzle to solve. It’s the story of the Kerberos, a steamship transporting 1,400 passengers from Southampton to New York City on the cusp of the 20 th century. Four months earlier, another of the company’s ships went missing, so when the Kerberos receives a set of mysterious coordinates, it goes off in search of the ghost ship and things get… complicated.

Things were already complicated for the Kerberos’ passengers, each of whom is revealed to be harbouring secrets that play out Lost -style through flashback. It’s very efficiently done, and give or take the matter of character names, it quickly becomes easy to differentiate those who make up the ensemble.

The cast standout is The Pursuit of Love ’s Emily Beecham as Maura Franklin, a British doctor plagued by intrusive visions and who’s looking for her missing brother. Beecham is ably supported by Dark ’s Andreas Pietschmann as the ship’s captain Eyk Larsen, and Peaky Blinders ’ Aneurin Barnard as the intriguing, mysterious Daniel. They all take their task extremely seriously and in the later episodes, succeed in selling some fairly outlandish scenes. Add to them a family of Danish Christians, two Spanish brothers, a geisha, a couple of French honeymooners, a wealthy multilingual woman travelling alone, a stowaway, an international crew, and a Polish engine room worker, and it’s a packed story.

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The engine room, incidentally, includes the brief but delightful surprise of British comedy double-act The Pin (aka Ben Ashenden and Alec Owen), as a pair of steerage workers who provide the odd moment of levity.

Levity is pretty scarce in 1899 , which deals in intense emotion, serious fear, and sensationalist twists. If it didn’t look so good, or round so many genuinely unexpected corners, its characters’ tragic backstories could easily fit in a soap opera. The glimpses of extreme weirdness and constant questions as to what’s really going on though, make it much more than a series of sad telenovela stories at sea.

Those stories start off in familiar territory, with upstairs-downstairs tales themed around romance, class, sexuality and violence, but soon explode into the creators’ untrammelled imaginations. Clues lead us towards each gradual discovery, and we’re kept guessing pretty much right to the end. Though 1899 stays largely on the right side of the tantalising vs frustrating line, be warned – you’ll be left with questions after the finale’s credits roll. And wondering when Season 2 might arrive to answer them.

You may also find yourself re-listening to the soundtrack, which includes both Ben Frost’s wiggy atmospheric score and the psychedelic, anachronistic needle drops that accompany the mighty twists at the end of each episode. Jefferson Airplane, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie… it is not messing about.

It’s hard to say too much because almost everything after episode one is a spoiler, but know that if you loved the creators’ previous series Dark , or Netflix’s The OA , or Lost or Westworld or any of those shows that give with one hand while perplexing with the other, you’ll more than likely enjoy this well-cast, good-looking, atmospheric and sinuous story. And when you have watched it, would you mind explaining just what on earth was going on , please?

1899 is available to stream now on Netflix.

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'1899' Review: The Creators of 'Dark' Craft Another Engaging Puzzle to Solve

The mind is bigger than the ocean.

It took some time for Dark to become an international success, but once word-of-mouth did it, the German series by Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar became one of Netflix's biggest hits. Two years after Dark ’s finale, Friese and bo Odar are back on the streamer with a bigger budget, a more ambitious project, and the heavy weight of expectation on their shoulders. Fortunately, 1899 does exactly what it promises by delivering a mind-bending puzzle that will keep the audience guessing until the last moment, as the story twists and turns in unexpected ways. And while there’s enough fun to be had from piecing all the clues the showrunners leave behind in each episode, 1899 also proves Friese and bo Odar have a keen talent for exploring the human tragedy, even if sometimes they put their mystery above character growth.

1899 follows the passengers and crew members of the Kerberos, a steamer ship that left Europe to cross the ocean and get to New York. Aboard the ships are the dreams of thousands of people who expect to find a better life in America at a time when the United States was still a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. Just as Dark leaned heavily on the cultural differences of different decades in Germany, 1899 's historical background allows Friese and bo Odar to explore the multicultural nature of Europe by featuring an international cast of characters from every corner of the old continent. And in a brilliant creative decision, the showrunners looked for stars from around the globe to ensure 1899 would be faithful to the many languages spoken by the passenger of the Kerberos.

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While English is the common language in 1899 , used by the main characters or as a way to convey official information between the ship’s crew and the passengers, there’s a rare effort to let people of different nationalities speak their mother tongue. Language is also the greater barrier to communication, as people are forced to work together even though they don’t understand each other. By exploring the accuracy of language barriers, 1899 ends up underlining how, despite their differences, humans can band together when danger threatens them all, finding ways to communicate that don’t depend on words. It also shows that even if language shapes our worldviews, the human experience is similar everywhere around the globe, as trauma defines the people we become.

From the start, 1899 has a big advantage compared to Dark , as it makes us deeply care for its cast of characters. There’s something weird with the Kerberos, and the mystery of what happens there is what pushes the plot forward. Nevertheless, each character is a puzzle on its own, as we learn little by little what drove so many people to jump onboard the same ship. By giving viewers glimpses of the Kerberos’ characters’ pasts, 1899 fleshes out their motivations. Each episode of the series focuses on a different character constellation, showing how these people are related and why they are on the ship. The strategy is highly efficient in keeping viewers engaged, as there’s always the promise to better understand one of your favorite characters in a future episode. Unfortunately, as the series approaches the season finale, 1899 abandons character growth in favor of mind-bending revelations that undercut the emotional stakes of the show.

When Dark was released on Netflix, viewers didn’t know what to expect, leading to the show’s shocking revelations being highly effective. However, people watching 1899 are ready to be deceived by the showrunners, which means viewers will look for clues in every frame of the series. Knowing full well that the mind-bending mystery is the biggest selling point of Dark and 1899 , Friese and bo Odar don’t take as long to shatter our perception and make us question reality. That strategy allows them to present a story that’s at the same time more complex and easier to follow, as both creators and audience share the same wavelength when it comes to 1988 . The side effect is that the mystery steals the attention that should belong to the characters.

Friese and bo Odar have impressive control over 1899 ’s narrative, using clever imagery to hide information for the viewers to find in the most unsuspicious places, from earrings to wallpapers in the background. But for a show to be successful in the long run, there must be characters to care about with meaningful stories. And while 1899 succeeds in building a puzzle that’s at the same time brilliant and accessible, it fails to have us cheering for the future of its best characters. When the credits roll in the season finale, so much has been subverted that both their victories and failures have no further purpose.

There's still time to steer the ship in the right direction, though. Since Season 1 already turns reality upside down and reveals the elusive truths at the series’ core, the hope is that future seasons will dedicate more time and attention to developing its great cast. That would help elevate 1899 from a highly entertaining but ultimately empty show to a masterpiece of television.

1899 is streaming right now on Netflix.

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1899 season 1 review – a multilingual masterpiece in the making

We review the highly anticipated Netflix series 1899 season 1, which is spoiler-free, so enjoy!

Netflix’s original series Dark is one of those shows that I recommend to everyone, all of the time – if you haven’t watched it yet, by the way, I urge you to at least give it a try. It is a superb German-language science fiction saga that really has to be seen to be believed. Series creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese are back with an eagerly anticipated follow-up to that masterpiece, with another show that could quite easily match Dark for quality or even surpass it. What could have been perceived as a tricky sophomore effort looks set to be another highly addictive offering from the duo. However, Netflix has only supplied the first three installments for critics to ogle over thus far.

The Netflix series 1899 is set aboard the Kerberos , a large vessel heading from Europe to New York, in the year of our Lord 1899 , with over a thousand souls on board. Amongst these many passengers is our mysterious protagonist Maura Franklin ( Emily Beecham ) , a single lady trained in medicine who is traveling alone in search of her missing brother. The brother may have taken a trip on the Prometheus , a similarly built ship that has gone missing in open waters. The Kerberos comes across the Prometheus early on in its voyage, and a few plucky passengers step aboard the ghost ship to hunt for survivors. Their presence on this abandoned ship unlocks a whole host of mysteries and fresh horrors for the guests to endure.

The ship is authentically fitted with citizens from numerous nationalities and backgrounds, all speaking in their own mother tongue. We have the ship’s captain Eyk ( Dark’s Andreas Pietschmann ) and his shipmates representing Germany, Polish grafter Olek , French newlyweds Clemence and Lucien , Spanish siblings Angel and Ramiro , a Danish family on the lower decks, and of course, representation for the Brits. It’s a real multilingual affair, with two passengers even coming from as far flung as Asia. This mixing of languages and classes adds to the mystery in an entirely unique way, providing ample confusion for our guests. It feels wholly innovative, having two characters talking at one another in different languages, clearly lost in translation. With all the passengers seemingly hiding something, there are plenty of secrets, cover-ups, and masks for our suspicious cast of characters to hide behind. The filmmakers slowly eke out information on these individuals at a tantalizing pace.

If you are familiar with Dark and its many twists, then you are in for a treat with 1899 , although even the most dedicated Dark aficionados may be shocked by the jaw-dropping cliffhangers each episode ends with. Your enjoyment of this series, on the whole, really depends on your tolerance for these ginormous twists and your ability to suspend disbelief. In that regard, 1899 is akin to shows like Lost or The Terror , which both include mysteries set aboard stranded ships. The mysteries only intensify as the series presses on, and some of the more obscure revelations may be make or break for certain viewers.

As with Dark this epic period piece is overflowing with cinematic imagery and atmospheric artistry. The sets and costume designs are exquisite, and the music is fittingly unnerving, coming from Dark composer Ben Frost . The writing is also admirably complex yet clearly well thought-out, somehow juggling multiple characters, in multiple languages, with ease. Each character has their own specific backstory and precise reasoning for being on that boat, which is subsequently explored in detail. To summarize, every department is working on a higher level, accumulating in this spellbinding eight-part series.

All in all, this cryptic puzzle box of a series has the potential to be a mega-hit for the streaming giants. The company gambled with Dark back in 2017, and they are now reaping the rewards, having reunited with the creators once again for 1899 . They’ll be hoping to capitalize on that early success while exploiting the creator’s penchant for murky mysteries and enthralling entertainment on their second project together. Hopefully, the series can continue to build upon this early, promising momentum, unraveling more of its surprising secrets in due course. And if they can properly explain these bizarre plot points in a believable manner, then they are truly onto a winner.

What did you think of the Netflix series 1899 season 1? Comment below.

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Adam Lock is a highly experienced Freelance Entertainment Writer who has written for Ready Steady Cut since January 2022. He is passionate about all things film and TV-related and has devoted his time to tracking streaming content on his social media.

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1899 review: an engrossing, yet frustrating sci-fi Netflix series

“1899 is an engaging, visually stunning sci-fi mystery series that falls short of greatness by drawing out many of its mysteries for too long.”

Emily Beecham's standout lead performance
Stunning sci-fi imagery and sets
Incredible sound design and score
Uneven pacing
Several forgettable subplots
Too many drawn-out mysteries

It’s strange to review a show like 1899 without first seeing its final two episodes. The new, richly designed Netflix sci-fi series from Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar is a puzzle-box mystery that takes its time pulling away the layers of its central mysteries across its first six episodes. The show’s pace is so patient, in fact, that its sixth episode ends with a reveal that stops just short of actually revealing what is really going on in the series. To be fair, it’s not hard to understand why Friese and Odar have chosen to save 1899 ’s biggest revelations for its final two episodes.

The creative decision, combined with Netflix’s choice to only provide critics with the first six of 1899 ’s episodes, does leave a reviewer like me in a difficult position, though. How, after all, am I meant to recommend that viewers tune in or skip 1899 without knowing the full scope of the show’s story? The only answer to that question is that I can’t. That doesn’t mean, however, that someone in my position can’t, at the very least, offer some insight into the various highs and lows that 1899 ’s first six episodes hold.

The new show f ollows Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham), a neurologist who buys a ticket on a cross-Atlantic trip aboard the steamship known as the Kerberos in the hope that doing so will help her solve the mystery of her brother’s disappearance. Things quickly begin to go awry on the Kerberos, however, when its captain, Eyk Larsen (Andreas Pietschmann), decides to respond to a mysterious signal from another ship. In tracing the signal, Eyk accidentally discovers the Prometheus, a steamship that Maura’s brother was not only a passenger on, but which has been missing for four months by the time that 1899 begins.

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Across its first six episodes, 1899 follows Maura and a number of her fellow passengers as they all grapple, often fruitlessly, to deal with the tragedies and strange occurrences that start to befall the Kerberos following Eyk’s discovery of the Prometheus. For their part, both Maura and Eyk begin to suspect that not everything about the Kerberos’ latest trip is as straightforward as they originally thought. Contrary to what viewers might expect, though, the more questions that Maura and Eyk begin to have, the stranger and more ambiguous 1899 becomes.

The series’ numerous twists are, for the most part, surprising and compelling. There are times, however, when the show’s pacing seems to slow down to a glacial level and certain mysteries begin to feel as if they’re being drawn out merely to preserve 1899 ’s eight-episode structure. That’s especially the case when it comes to the show’s handling of a young boy (Fflyn Edwards) who Eyk and Maura find on the otherwise-abandoned remains on the Prometheus . For several episodes straight, the young boy simply refuses to speak, which causes his presence to eventually create more frustration than intrigue.

The same can be said for large portions of 1899 ’s middle episodes, which progress at such a stop-and-start rate that it’s hard not to feel like you’re being led along solely on the promise of forthcoming revelations that may very well not live up to viewers’ expectations. The show’s uneven approach to its pacing and plotting is, unfortunately, reflected in some of its characterizations as well. Both Clara Rosager and Mathilde Ollivier, for instance, bring considerable gravitas to their roles, but are ultimately underserved in parts that are underwritten and inconsistently sketched.

Thankfully, that’s not the case for many of 1899 ’s primary players. Beecham, in particular, turns in a standout performance as the show’s ostensible lead, Maura. Opposite her, Pietschmann brings a palpable sense of pain and paranoia to his performance as Eyk, the grieving steamship captain whose instincts are stronger than either he or anyone else truly knows. Among 1899 ’s supporting cast, Isabella Wei also makes a surprisingly strong mark as Ling Yi, a young Chinese woman whose backstory is far more complicated than it initially seems.

To its credit, 1899 wisely supports its strongest performances by surrounding its actors with some of the more gorgeously designed sets that viewers will likely see on TV this year. The deep browns, reds, and grays of the Kerberos, in particular, not only make watching 1899 a consistently engrossing experience, but also come together to create a visual color palette that perfectly complements the show’s steampunk aesthetic. The show’s sound design, along with Ben Frost’s score , similarly heightens and enriches its moody, dark sci-fi tone.

Whether they’re sending characters crawling on their hands and knees through passageways that seem to float uncannily in the air or transitioning from the swirl of a whirlpool into the twisting hallway of a mental hospital, Friese and Odar continue to deliver the same kind of memorable, inventive sci-fi imagery in 1899 that they did in Dark . In other words, while it remains to be seen whether or not 1899 can muster up the same kind of satisfying twists and resolutions that Dark did, there’s no denying that Friese and Odar remain two of the more distinct sci-fi artists working today.

Their latest creation is a series that feels, in its best moments, like a worthy follow-up to beloved sci-fi shows like Altered Carbon and Severance , but also like an unnecessarily convoluted, Westworld -esque sci-fi drama in its worst.

1899 is streaming now on Netflix. Digital Trends was given early access to six of the show’s eight episodes.

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“1899” Review – Netflix Series Offers Mystery Aboard a Ghost Ship

Hailing from Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar , 1899 is a suitably creepy and mysterious period thriller about a missing (possibly haunted) ship. The eight-episode Netflix series is a combination of the first season of The Terror and Ghost Ship with a splash of Downton Abbey .

The series opens with a nightmare as Maura Franklin ( Emily Beechum ), an English doctor, awakens from a dream where she’s threatened by a mysterious man shrouded in shadows. Immediately upon exiting her room it’s clear that she’s already onboard a ship, crossing the ocean to New York like her brother Henry. He and more than a thousand other people have been missing for four months since something happened to the Prometheus, a sister ship to the one Maura is on. Her only hint of what happened is a letter addressed to Henry asking him to come to New York as quickly as possible.

There’s a strange symbol embossed in the wax sealing the letter: an inverted triangle with a line crossing through the bottom part (almost like the reverse of how icebergs in the water are often drawn). This symbol appears regularly throughout the series: on the floor underneath a bed, on the necklace of one character, and as a tattoo on the neck of another. It’s a striking recurring visual, though early in the series its purpose or meaning is unclear.

Fans of Dark will likely find the secrets and mysteries of 1899 a little conventional. Friese and bo Odar’s previous Netflix series was an incredibly convoluted and challenging time-travel serial killer story. 1899 still features plenty of unanswered questions, but, compared to Dark, its approach to narrative should be much easier for casual audiences to follow.

There’s still plenty of atmosphere, however, and the production design is top notch. With the exception of some dodgy FX work when characters stand on the deck, the period costuming is immaculate and the art department has outdone themselves with the expensive, textured look of the ship’s interior. There’s even a clear palette change in the rich vibrant wood of the upper-class levels versus the somber greys of the lower decks where the poor families are crammed in like sardines.

The distinction between the classes is thrown into even starker relief in scenes with Olek ( Maciej Musial ), a frequently shirtless member of the engine crew whose job is to feed the giant engines coal. His story intersects with Jérome ( Yann Gael ), a Black stowaway posing as a member of the crew whom Olek discovers and befriends just as the central mystery comes to the fore: the coordinates of the missing ship begin transmitting from an unexpected location.

What happened aboard the Prometheus is the show’s driving question, but like all good mysteries, the answer is far from simple. Complicating matters further is that nearly everyone aboard Maura’s ship has a reason to escape Europe and the interlocking backstories of what characters are running away from are nearly as compelling as the ghost ship. Throw in a mute boy hidden in a cupboard ( Fflyn Edwards ) and a wet stranger ( Aneurin Barnard ) who sneaks aboard when no one is looking and it’s clear that strange things are very clearly afoot.

Intriguingly, the diversity of stories aboard the ship means that 1899 prominently features multiple languages. The two ships were once owned by a German company, then sold to the British with half of the German employees kept on. This means that the two main characters are a female British doctor and German captain Eyk Larsen ( Andreas Pietschmann ). There’s also a woman posing as a Japanese noblewoman ( Isabella Wei ) who secretly practices the language in her room with her domineering handler.

One minor element that detracts from the enjoyment of the series is how the score is occasionally used. In one scene a predatory closeted gay man ( Miguel Bernardeau ) locates his object of affection – a lower-class man ( The Rain ’s Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen ) – in a bathroom to force a cigarette case into his pocket. The score that accompanies this scene wouldn’t be out of place in a horror film; while Bernardeau’s character is clearly acting shady, the use of score makes it seem on par with Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode.

The same musical tactic is used when Jérome sneaks into the cabin of French newlywed Clémence ( Mathilde Ollivier ) to leave an object on her husband’s desk. Considering Jérome is one of only a pair of non-white characters in the series, it is uncomfortable and unusual that the 1899 creative team uses the score to suggest that marginalized POC and queer characters are threatening or terrifying figures.

Small demerits aside, 1899 is a polished, compelling period mystery. There’s plenty of intrigue wrapped up in the events of the disappearing ship, as well as the diverse cast of characters whose futures become intertwined in its reappearance. There’s nothing else quite like 1899 on TV right now.

Joe is a TV addict with a background in Film Studies. He co-created TV/Film Fest blog QueerHorrorMovies and writes for Bloody Disgusting, Anatomy of a Scream, That Shelf, The Spool and Grim Magazine. He enjoys graphic novels, dark beer and plays multiple sports (adequately, never exceptionally). While he loves all horror, if given a choice, Joe always opts for slashers and creature features.

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1899 – Netflix Series Review

Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Nov 16, 2022 | 4 minutes

1899 on Netflix is the new sci-fi mystery series from the creators of the amazing sci-fi horror Netflix series DARK . This time around, it’s not a German, but a very international cast. Read our 1899 Season 1 review here!

1899 is a new Netflix sci-fi mystery series. There are eight hour-long episodes in the season, which has a very international cast. The series is created by the same people who gave us Dark , the amazing sci-fi horror Netflix series from Germany .

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This time around, there is a lot of English spoken, but not exclusively. And for once, you actually cannot watch this series dubbed. I mean, you could (I think, it wasn’t an option on the screeners, we received), but it will mess up your understanding of everything. And yes, there are subtitles available so you can keep up.

Continue reading our 1899 Season 1 review below. Watch all eight episodes on Netflix from November 17, 2022.

A very slow start, but 1899 picks up from episode 3

You should prepare yourself for quite a slow start to 1899 . In fact, I found myself very disappointed with the first two episodes. My expectations were obviously too great based on who created it. As already mentioned, 1899 was was created by the people that gave us the amazing sci-fi horror series DARK .

WATCH 1899 IF YOU LIKED THIS 1899 is an obvious choice if you enjoyed the three seasons of Dark on Netflix >

And yes, it does show that this comes from those same creators. In good ways!

The whole look and feel are the same despite this being in a very different setting. However, where Dark was off to a strong and intriguing beginning, this one is too messy for my liking. As the viewer, you need to get to episode 3 before you can begin to connect the dots.

The first two episodes are like opening a box with a huge puzzle and throwing all the pieces on the floor. Without knowing what image the puzzle will ultimately show. Then, slowly, you get an idea of some elements in the final image, but the big picture is still very obscure.

All of episode 3 starts to give you the framing and some guidelines, so from then on it’s much better. Basically, you need to sit back and observe during those first two episodes, which are about gathering clues more than getting actual facts.

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Innovative in an international way

While there are still some German characters, 1899 does have a very international and diverse cast. This means many different languages are spoken. It also means that people don’t necessarily understand each other and have to rely on reading body language and using the few words they each recognize.

I love this about the story in 1899 . It also helps you (or at least, it did for me) accept that you won’t know exactly what’s going on. After all, most of the characters in 1899 have no idea what’s going on either.

And really, the language barrier is how the world still works when you have people from all over the world. Sure, many people speak English, but (outside of English-speaking countries) most of us also have a basic knowledge of at least one other language than our native tongue.

Once you travel, you quickly realize the value of knowing more languages. This is also the case in 1899 but it’s a very subtle plot point that just shows up all the time.

The international cast of 1899

The cast includes German, Spanish, French, English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese, and Polish characters. All speak their own native languages and are portrayed by people from these countries. It’s amazing.

From Dark , we see Andreas Pietschmann as the German Captain of the ship. Quite a move up from playing “The Stranger” in Dark , but also someone in the exact opposite position, since he is now one of the people who have no idea what’s going on.

Another key character is the British Emily Beecham as Maura. Also, Polish actor Maciej Musial ( The Witcher ) plays Olek, Miguel Bernardeau ( Élite ) from Spain, and Mathilde Ollivier ( Overlord ) from France.

The Danish actors include several Netflix-familiar faces as well with Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen and Clara Rosager (both from The Rain ) as siblings, Alexandre Willaume ( Equinox ) as the hurting patriarch, and Maria Erwolter ( The Ritual ) as the Godfearing matriarch .

Watch season 1 of 1899 on Netflix!

First things first; Watch 1899 without knowing anything and – for the love of storytelling and movie magic – avoid spoilers like the plague. This is also the way to watch Dark or anything else really. Still, with sci-fi and mystery plots, it does tend to be even more important.

Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese are the two creators of 1899. They also co-created Dark , so it’s obviously a very efficient duo. We were given the first six out of the eight episodes in season 1, so we don’t even know how the season ends. And, to be perfectly honest, this is what we have to base our rating on.

As it’s always the case, those last few episodes of a season can either make or break a story. For 1899 , I think (and hope) that they will blow my mind in a way that few series do. But again, since Dark is one of those series that managed to shock and surprise in the best of ways, I have faith in these creators!

1899 is out on Netflix globally from November 17, 2022.

Creators: Jantje Friese, Baran bo Odar Director: Baran bo Odar Writer: Jantje Friese Cast: Emily Beecham, Andreas Pietschmann, Clara Rosager, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Alexandre Willaume, Isabella Wei, Anton Lesser, Mathilde Ollivier, Aneurin Barnard, Miguel Bernardeau, Maria Erwolter, Rosalie Craig, Jonas Bloquet, Martin Greis-Rosenthal, Maciej Musial, Richard Hope

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1899 (2022)

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90% of the running time are filler scenes, scenes of no value whatsoever, usually filled with silence, pointless and badly written conversations, slow motion sequences, and just uncomfortably long, clearly overly stretched out scenes for no reason other than to make them longer. There's no artistic value or any other value in what they do, all they do is extend the running time. For that reason, every episode that's 1 hour long realistically has enough content for 20 minutes, and that's a stretch. This whole season of 8 hours could have been a 2 hour movie, and it would still feel too long. Dark didn't suffer from that. Dark was the complete opposite, every episode was so filled with content and complexity it was hard to follow it all at times. Every second of every episode was relevant and the viewers were given some piece of crucial information or relevant information. When it comes to 1899 you can skip 5 minute segments and not miss anything, and even if you do miss something, it's of no particular value.
Literally needless sexual and gender politics being aggressively shoved into the viewers face. This is something that's become a norm with Netflix and American TV in general, it's like every movie and series is a political message.
Every episode is literally made in the same exact pattern. The first 90% is completely stretched out and virtually nothing happens that couldn't be comfortably covered in 15 minutes with no atmosphere, context, depth, etc. Lost. Then the last 10% suddenly ramp up, so you're left with a cliffhanger that makes you wanna watch the next episode. What Netflix does with this is masterful mind-control and manipulation of the viewer. They make their episodes just long enough to make you start feeling bored, and just when you'd say "screw this" and turn it off, something interesting happens that intrigues you and keeps you watching. Sadly, this show isn't remotely the worst example of that.
I like the fact that it's mainly a European cast and there's multiple langues being spoken, but it's so badly done, there's a scene after scene of totally unrealistic interactions between characters who apparently don't understand each other, yet they communicate as if they do. Clearly, the show has subtitles so we as viewers understand what's going on, but the characters in the show act as if they do as well. Point being, this is totally not how two people who can't speak the same language would interact.
Finally I'm giving this a 6.5/10 because of a fairly interesting story and a concept, but I wish the makers of the show were not in such a tight grasp of Netflix. It's not their fault the show ended up being far worse than it could have been.

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1899 ending explained (in detail).

By twisting its characters' perceptions of reality, Netflix's 1899 ending presents many baffling sci-fi mysteries that demand explanations.

"1899 delivered a mind-bending show with intriguing cliffhangers and complex characters."
"The ship Kerberos serves as a simulation, while Prometheus represents endless loops of trauma."
"Maura's father is a red herring, as she is the true creator of the simulation."

With Netflix's 1899 ending after only one season, the cliffhanger twists and turns of its eight episodes demand a bit of explanation. Throughout its run, 1899 explained a multitude of sci-fi concepts and narrative devices without offering a clear explanation for any of them. To add another layer of intrigue and drama, 1899 ended each episode with a puzzling cliffhanger while gradually unfolding the traumatic backstories of its primary characters. 1899 had the best of both of its genres and delivered one of the most mind-bending shows in recent memory.

While the Netflix original series took its time to unravel its underlying mysteries and intentionally kept viewers white-knuckled with its slow pace, it proved rewarding when it unveiled the core that held its baffling plot points together. 1899 also boasted impressive set design, diverse characters, and myriad relatable themes dealing with sexuality, death, religious fanaticism, and class divides . Netflix decided to cancel 1899 despite its success . With so much going on in its eight-episode run, the 1899 ending served up even more questions than it did answers.

1899 Cancelation Proves No Show Can Be The New Lost

The kerberos and the prometheus in 1899 explained, kerberos is not an everyday ship.

A ship named Kerberos is the primary setting for 1899 's roster of diverse characters , while Prometheus is another ship that had reportedly gone missing before Kerberos set sail. Early in 1899 , it becomes evident that Kerberos is no ordinary ship and accommodates many technologies that are almost incomprehensible to the passengers. 1899 takes a dark turn when Kerberos ' crew receives a message from a nearby ship, which, upon discovery, turns out to be Prometheus .

After finding only a young boy, Elliot, on the ghost ship, Prometheus' crew takes him onboard and sets sail back home. Little do they realize that another passenger from Prometheus named Daniel has boarded the ship.

Chaos ensues on the Kerberos when passengers start dropping dead, while Daniel attempts to force Maura (Emily Beecham) into questioning her sense of perception. 1899 explained these mysterious events in its last few episodes by revealing that the ship is a simulation that has been manipulating the passengers' reality. Everything from their memories to their physical appearance is a construct of the simulation.

From a mythological standpoint, Cerberus/Kerberos is the three-headed guard dog who prevents the dead from escaping the underworld. Given how 1899 's Kerberos serves as a prison of perception and reality for the passengers, the name makes sense. Similarly, the other ship's name comes from the Greek myth of Prometheus, who was punished with eternal torment for stealing fire from Mt. Olympus and parallels the passengers living in endless loops of their simulated traumas.

Who Created The Simulation In 1899?

There is a red herring surrounding this.

Red herrings in early episodes of 1899 explained initially that Maura’s father, Henry Singleton (Anton Lesser), is the evil genius behind the simulation. For instance, Maura keeps claiming that her father removed her memories after she and her brother learned about his secret experiments on the ship. In another scene, Henry spies on the passengers of Kerberos from the comfort of his room. While these moments are convincing enough to suggest that Henry is the simulation's architect, the 1899 ending reveals that Maura is its creator .

Outside the simulation, Maura once lived with her husband Daniel (Aneurin Barnard), and son Elliot (Fflyn Edwards). When Elliot's health started declining due to a mysterious disease, she could not deal with the pain and grief. In an attempt to " preserve " her son, she transferred his consciousness to a simulated reality where she and Daniel could spend time together. 1899 explained little of how the simulation grew from a child's playroom to a multi-layered system, or how Henry was part of it. However, it seems likely that many other forces got involved with the technology and escalated it into chaos.

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Working this to his advantage, Henry misused his daughter's technology by creating more simulations inside his primary simulation to study the dark depths of the human brain. Maura explains his downward spiral in a brief conversation with Eyk (Andreas Pietschmann) by recalling that her mother had Alzheimer’s, which gradually destroyed her ability to recognize family members. After her death, Henry started coping with his loss by meticulously studying the human mind, hoping to find answers about his wife's illness.

With time, he took this too far by making his daughter and her family victims of his experiments. The fact that Maura purposefully chose to erase her memories to deal with the traumatic death of her son proves to be both a boon and a bane for Henry. While it allows him to manipulate her technology and use it for his benefit, he finds himself in trouble when he realizes that only Maura possesses the code to escape the simulations.

What The Pyramid, The Beetle, And The Key Mean In 1899's Simulation

Some are codes for the simulation.

The boy's pyramid and Maura's key are the codes required to end the simulations, as 1899 explained in later episodes. Since Maura had no memories of her past life, she could not recall anything about the key. Henry puts her through those recurring simulations to help her recall where she kept it. It is also possible Henry placed those pyramid symbols all over the ship to jog her memory, or Maura put them there to remember the key after losing her memory . The latter seems plausible since the pyramid and key symbol are tattooed behind her son's ear.

1899 explained details symbolically which demanded deeper reflection. Just like the pyramid and the key, the beetle is also a code that unlocks closed doors. The beetle's significance harkens back to one of Maura's memories from the real world. In the memory, Maura asks Elliot to free a beetle he traps in a jar to teach him the proverbial " set them free if you love them. " Owing to this, the beetle probably gets manifested or designed as a code for literal freedom from locked doors in the simulation.

Are The Trapdoor Simulations Real Reflections Of The Past?

It hasn't been confirmed yet but there are theories.

As 1899 explained, there is a trapdoor under every passenger's bed . Each trapdoor opens to an underground chamber leading to a simulation of the respective passenger's disturbing past. Considering how every character's past was likely a mere construct, the trapdoor simulations probably have nothing to do with the passengers' reality. This is further confirmed when the passengers start going through each other's memory simulations after Daniel alters the code.

Virus In 1899 Explained

It comes from a hack.

Massive black structures start growing out of the ship's walls towards the 1899 ending, and when Virginia Wilson (Rosalie Craig ) touches one, the black mass starts spreading all over her body. Like everything else in the simulation, the black substance is also a code that represents a virus . Daniel intentionally hacks into the system and introduces the virus to the simulation to prevent Henry from restarting the loop. This explains why he asks other passengers to avoid touching it.

What Plato's Cave Allegory Means In 1899

The concept has been used by some major movies.

In his allegory, titled "The Cave," Plato describes a hypothetical scenario where a group of people is chained inside a cave, and all they can see is a blank wall in front of them. The wall reflects shadows from the real world behind them but never gives them an accurate depiction of reality. Despite the limitations in their perception, the cave people accept the reality they are presented with because it is the only reality they know.

Movies like the Christopher Nolan sci-fi film Interstellar , Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island , and even Wachowskis' The Matrix made references to the same allegory. Henry recalls that Maura used to obsess over Plato's allegory when she was younger. That is probably where she found inspiration for creating alternative realities — or, rather, shadows of reality — through simulations.

However, after she lost her memories and Henry took control of her simulations, he became the bearer of reality while her simulation became a mere shadow on the wall. Since Henry, too, is part of a simulation, Plato's allegory is an endless cycle in 1899 where the leader of the simulation chain remains unknown.

How Henry's Black And White Syringes Work

They each serve a specific, important purpose.

Like all objects in the simulations, both injections are codes that serve a specific purpose. Their function is similar to the blue and red pills in The Matrix in that they alter the perception of those taking them. Henry uses the black injection to reset Maura's memories and send her into a new simulation. In contrast, he uses the white one to restore his memories and subsequent understanding of reality. 1899 explained little about the syringes explicitly, but their uses were shown in the events of the series.

Why Cirian Took Control Of Maura’s Simulation

No official reason has been given.

Towards the 1899 ending, Henry gets his hands on the pyramid and the key, but Daniel still manages to stay one step ahead. Daniel manipulates the syringe's code in such a way that when Henry injects its black serum into Maura, she reaches the first simulation playroom that she had created for her son. This is where Daniel tells her that he also changed the key's code to Laura's ring and the pyramid's code to a toy in Elliot's playroom . Using the new key and pyramid, Maura finally breaks out of the simulation loop in the show's closing arc.

However, considering how Daniel warns her that her brother Cirian has taken over the simulations, her journey seems to be far from over. Cirian's identity and motivations remain unknown even after the 1899 ending. It is clear, though, that at the end of 1899 , he is at the top of the simulation chain and is perhaps the only one experiencing reality as it is; others are just perceiving the shadows of reality that he wants them to see.

1899: 10 Wild Theories That Could Be True

Has maura escaped the simulation in 1899 ending, most of the ending is speculation.

The 1899 ending sees Maura wake up in a space station where she finds the other passengers plugged into a machine. This confirms that no one died on that ship . She finds a screen that reveals the name of the space station as " Project Prometheus " and the present year as " 2099. " This is followed by a " Welcome to Reality " message from Cirian, which confirms that he knows about his sister's escape from the simulation.

Since 1899 ends after this, whether Maura has escaped all simulations or was simply trapped in another is pure speculation. However, since the space station shares its name with the ship, it is possibly another simulated reality created by Cirian. Another detail confirming this is the phrase “ may your coffee kick in before reality does ” that Cirian leaves for Maura in the space station. In a previous scene, Anker and Ramiro find the same phrase written all over a book in the ship's control room.

Although 1899 never explained the phrase's significance, it seems to be Cirian's way of poking fun at his prisoners. By alluding to the false sense of wakefulness that comes when the brain is flooded with dopamine after the consumption of coffee, Cirian seems to insult Maura and others who willingly chose to live in fake simulations just to deal with the burdens of their realities. Since he greets her with the same message in the space station, he may be about to put her and the passengers through another puzzling simulation.

Summary Dr. Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham) is one of the passengers on a ship bound for New York City in 1899 that comes across a ship reported missing months ago in this mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar.

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