Anthracite - Netflix

Anthracite - 2024 - Netflix Series Trailer 1 - English Subtitles
Phoenix Media Distribution

Crazy, overly-complicated serial killer murder mystery. Ida (Noémie Schmidt) is the shining star, as in a bright spot. Full of energy and enthusiasm, she seems to be too good to be true, and she is. She's dying of leukemia, chemotherapy has been ineffective, so she says fuck it, she's going to do what she wants. What she wants is to find her father who disappeared in one of these little villages tucked away in the French Alps. Her father was investigating a series of disappearances that have happened over the last 30 years. Okay, that's spooky number one. Then we find there was a cult operating in this area that staged a mass suicide 30 years ago. That's spooky #2. Are these two connected? You betcha, but that's not all. We also have a secretive biological research center up in the mountains that is investigating a microbe that was discovered in the anthracite coal mine that is inside the mountain. That's spooky #3. There are 100 miles of tunnels in this coal mine, and in many cases the last place a missing person was seen was not too far from an entrance to this maze of tunnels. Spooky #4.

There was a real suicidal cult, Order of the Solar Temple, operating in this area back in the 1990's. They managed to kill like 75 people. In the show, the leader of the cult is locked up in a psychiatric hospital, doped to the gills. The head nurse might be his most devoted follower. Turns out most, if not all of the characters in this show are related to each other, though they only find that out as the show progresses.

The scenery is spectacular, not surprising given the location.

Anthracite Filming Locations

They showed a map of the coal mine tunnels, but they only flashed it on the screen for a moment and I haven't been able to locate it. There are a couple of hetero-sex scenes, and a couple of fags. Is that because this is Netflix, or is it because that's what the real world is like?