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The movie starts with a hairdresser, named Izzy (Isabelle) giving out donuts for free in her neighborhood on her way to work. Arriving at work, she finds that the microwave in her salon caused a fire. The assistant of the owner of the salon, Doug, arrives asking for payment for the damage so she gives the money that she had saved for traveling the world.

Meanwhile prince of Lavania, Prince Thomas, asks his assistant to schedule a haircut. His assistant mistakenly calls up Izzy's salon telling her that she will be paid $500 for the haircut. Izzy agrees and visits the palace. When she meets the prince and starts cutting his hair, a housekeeper comes with tea and accidentally drops it. Izzy is upset at how badly the housekeeper is treated and leaves without finishing the Princes haircut.

She returns back to the salon and starts recounting the day's events to her family. During the recounting, The Prince comes in to finish the haircut. After Prince gets the haircut, Izzy agrees to walk the prince back to the metro and the two share a light-hearted fun night.

The next day The Prince, his fiancee Lauren, and her mother discuss who to hire as the makeup artists for the wedding. Prince Thomas's assistant recommends Izzy's salon and is confirmed. He goes to the salon asking if they would like to be the makeup artists for the wedding. They agree and go to the castle. Another assistant Lola asks Izzy and her friends to the makeup room to test their skills. Izzy passes but her friends don't so Lola trains them. After some time, Izzy leaves the castle to see the province and The Prince accompanies her.

The next day, Thomas states at the meal table to his family that he wants to do more for the locals. Izzy heads in to town and encourages locals to donate to the less fortunate children by leaving items at the castle gate. Meanwhile Lauren tells Thomas that she wants part of their new estate to be for her work studio for a business idea that she has. Thomas finds the guard house full of donated toys for the children. Izzy and Thomas drive the toys and some royal furniture to the orphanage.

Lauren's mother observes that the Prince and Izzy are getting too close and tells Lauren. She is not concerned, commenting that she would rather focus on her business ideas than marry someone she barely knows. When a photo of them ends up in the papers, Izzy is asked to leave.

On the Prince's wedding day, his assistant tells him that he knows that the Prince is in love with Izzy. Thomas rushes to Lauren to tell her he can’t marry her. She is relieved as she also did not want to get married.

Izzy returns she finds that there was a major fire in the salon. When Doug visits asking for money, she tells him that she had spoken with the owner who expected Doug to rewire the property. The family make plans to refurbish the salon but Izzy tells them she doesn’t want to work at the salon any more, instead choosing to be director of a local community centre.

Prince Thomas rides to Izzy's house on horseback and he confesses his feelings for her. And the movie ends with both going to get some gelato on the horseback

SPAIN, THE 19TH CENTURY. The war-torn country prompted some of its residents to set up homesteads on the most desolate scraggled plains ever to be home to a lot of twigs jutting from the hard ground like the desiccated limbs of corpses grasping in vain at an empty, gray, uncaring sky. So it’s only a slightly better place to raise a family than the suburbs! Salvador (Roberto Alamo) is the dad, Lucia (Inma Cuesta) is the mom and Diego (Asier Flores) is their boy, who wakes up in the middle of the night so terrified by the creepy figurines his mother carves for him, he drops and shatters his chamber pot. (It was empty, phew.) He wakes his dad who grabs a rifle and escorts the boy through the hovering mist and chilly blue moonlight to the outhouse on the edge of the property so Diego can kegel his hyperboreal pelvic floor muscles and coax terrified dribbles of urine out so he can go back to bed and not sleep much. Poor kid needs a damn hug.

Thankfully, Lucia is a wondermom. She has to be, since Salvador appears to have the emotional demeanor of a brick of old meatballs that’s been in the back of the freezer since 1997. Who can blame him, since they spend their days working a shitty shitty farm where they raise forlorn sheep and anxious bunnies, and yank vegetables from the bloodless, chalky earth, surely the most wretched vegetables ever to provide joyless nutrition, like cabbage and turnips. On the edge of the farm they’ve erected scarecrows that loom like crucifixion crosses, marking an invisible line that shall not be crossed, like, you know, thou shall not encroach upon the territory of the local chupacabras, or whatever.
Salvador wants Diego to club a bunny so they can eat it, but the kid ain’t quite there yet, prompting Lucia to whisk him away so they can play and be lighthearted, thus establishing the dynamic where one parent wants to preserve the child’s innocence as long as possible, and the other wants him to learn the harsh truth of where his dinner comes from. Ol’ Salvador isn’t a terrible person – he’s just depressed. Diego spies on his old man as he cleans the rifle then sees what it feels like to put the barrel beneath his chin. Salvador tells the story of his sister, who was stalked by “the beast,” a tall, skinny humanlike figure with hollow eyes who lurks closer and closer the more you fear it, which drove the poor girl to madness and, eventually, suicide. Nice story, won’t scare the kid at all, you should submit it to Reader’s Digest.
This being one of those One Fateful Day movies, on one fateful day, a gravely injured stranger floats up the nearby mud slop bungwater creek and, before Salvador can fix him up and feed him, the guy grabs the shotgun and deskulls himself in front of the wife and kid. Salvador decides the best thing to do is to find the guy’s family and tell them about his fate, which might be more noble and thoughtful if he wasn’t leaving his own wife and son to fend for themselves against the beast, who hasn’t emerged from the darkness yet, but absolutely has to, because you don’t drop a story like that into a screenplay and then not deliver the goods.

My thoughts
The Wasteland is a waste of time and money.. Netflix truly lost the ball with this one in my opinion but then again I am not a fan of the horror films genre.. probably why I didn't appreciate it.. like.
its supposed to be a horror film I was barely scared I could watch this with my 2 year old niece and wouldn't worry about here being scared..

My advice

SKIP IT. Some of its more creepy imagery might haunt you.hahah not really.. its a joke.. not scared what so ever.. in fact I wasted my timing watching this.. its truly a waste.. hahah

Anyways that's all from me folks..

A must watch for any scifi fan. This series was well written and suggested a few interesting view points on the future of humanity, our planet and different other influences that our species may have to resort to (if we haven't already started trying). I absolutely loved the acting, suspense, drama and over-all flow of this series. Its awesome too because even if they do not have a second season and keep it as a mini-series, the ending was satisfying and offered a hopeful outlook for the viewers to come to their own conclusions on how things would eventually turn out. 10/10.
Additionally... I appreciate that Netflix is expanding the attention to Korean tv shows because they are dubbing rather than just subbing. It feels sooooo good to finally be able to prove that I was right in saying all along to friends and loved ones that Korean shows really do offer something unique that American shows dont usually deliver on with a fresh take on storytelling and experience.

From the immersive music, unique and creative storyline, beautiful CGI&VFX, endless scenes of stunning cinematography, to the actors' amazing acting competence and skill, in my opinion, The Silent Sea was just as good, if not, better than Squid Game (though they aren't necessarily comparable in a specific way).
In terms of the series's ambitions, they executed things rather perfectly, and each episode never showed more than it needed to, just like The Silent Sea's captivating trailer did. Because not a lot of information is revealed in each episode, and due to the plot's dark tone and nature, the whole series is all the more intriguing and interesting, also creating a lot of satisfying suspense throughout the episodes.
The series ends with a lot more questions being raised, but the incomplete sensation in the series is another reason why The Silent Sea is so great and memorable (let's hope a S2 comes out, but we must keep in mind it might be better off as a powerful one-season series). It's quite unfortunate it came out with other popular shows like Witcher S2, or Emily in Paris S2, but let's hope it gets the recognition it deserves, just like Squid Game and Hellbound did. (Recommend it to your friends and families everyone~!)

I can't wait to see how Kdramas/Kseries evolve to produce more unique shows, especially ones revolving around outer space and more CGI and VFX, just like The Silent Sea :)

The story tries to sell two hapless TV technicians (and brothers-in-law) harboring their everyday work with countless clumsy conversations and swiveling dialogue but are soon swamped by a murder mystery. The comedy then turns to the two men incriminating themselves by overthinking matters. In normal circumstances, you’d raise the alarm. You’d make the police aware that you were out on the job, and you found a murdered man while in their apartment. But the crux of this story is bent on one of the men (Salvo) being obsessed with a fictional true-crime series, so of course, once finding the dead body, he tries to apply fictional elements to a “real-life situation.”

Ficarra e Picone have fun with the Italian system...
The Italian comic duo of, Ficarra e Picone, take on the Mafia and everything that is so wrong with the Italian system, by poking fun at it and entertaining us along the way. They play bumbling Electronic Technicians who stumble upon a corpse, and from there their whole world falls apart, but in a comical way.

What Ficarra and Picone manage to do is reveal how insane and corrupt their country is. From the new-look Mafia who have to make ends meet by doing legit jobs, to the Church and their financial dealings (the monastery who don't hand out receipts for their purchased cookies), to lame news stories from the desperate media, and even throwing in cheesy TV Police thrillers that have burnt away our brain cells. The duo have fun and go to town on it, including the gender difference when committing infidelity!

It's a Sicilian farce, that only Sicilians will understand. But if you go in with the knowledge that all is not right in the sun burnt island, then you will enjoy the silly ride Ficarra and Picone have in store for you.