Every now and then you run into these guys of a mini series which get you hooked in by the second. ‘The Days’ is one of these series where in just 8 episodes it immediately sucked me right in and also the casting of it was just really decent. It was released by Netflix just this year and I am a bit puzzled that I haven’t heard more people talking about it as yet.
‘The Days’ is a series about the incident in Fukushima which happened in 2011 where a big tsunami happened occurred because of an earthquake in the Japan region. Because of this tsunami a big wave went over the village of Fukushima (and of course a lot of other places as well) killing almost 16.000 people in an instant.
This series is not as much about the tsunami itself, but more about the aftermath of this of all what happened in the nuclear powerplant causing a partial meltdown of one of the reactors. ‘The Days’ is about the days between the incident of the tsunami causing the chain of events to start, and everything what happened in the mean time until the situation was under control again.
The main focus is the inter-human relations if you ask me, and also having a good example of how hierarchy can be the blocker of all productiveness, because everyone has such different motives to do something. Not making a decision because it is the best one to do, but making a decision because ‘what would the public think about it’. The scariest way of decision making actually, but this is also the way of decision making that seems like a lot of people are doing at the moment in politics. Japan of course is master in respecting the hierarchy.
Another interesting part of this series was the part where heroes stand up and make choices not thinking out there own best, but more in the bigger picture. Now I am also doubting a bit if this is dramatized more and more for the fact of the series. But there is also another documentary made about this Fukushima disaster which was more a real docu versus a Netflix series, and here this principles was the same as well.
People make heroic efforts to stay behind and try to save others even though this means self-sacrifice in the total process. This is something what I also wonder say here in the Netherlands if something like this would happen, if people would also do the same….who knows.
But everything in total about this series is just really something to watch and take a moment to look at and just see what all happened in this powerplant, while we all were just looking from the sidelines.
This series….Just watch it: it is a no brainer!
